Genuine question….

Absolutely

Depends how regularly they get time to enjoy their hobby, how poorly the child is, what you needed to do, whether you have any other children / animals to look after.

Personally it depends , that’s their time for themselves , if it was the other way round I’d hope they’d do the same and cope with it like I would have to , however I think It does depend on what HMK said

For context it was chickenpox and then straight into some sort of viral infection with a very high fever so not wanting to be put down at times, difficult to administer medicine, lots of tears etc

I personally wouldn’t because it is exactly what parenting is about, no judgement either on those who said they’d call them back. I just know if the shoe was on the other foot, I’d probably enjoy the time away too. If it was a whole weekend or week etc booked for it, I’d maybe ask them to reduce it before they left but I’d also not really care if they didn’t. I’m a single mum tho so do everything myself anyway which probably contributes to why I have that way as I’ve never had anyone to tag out with x

I guess for me I don’t like to leave little one when quite unwell. I wouldn’t enjoy myself. I have anxiety so I would worry even though his dad is more than capable of caring for him. I just think if I had plans to go see a friend for coffee or something, that’s easily rearranged and my friends understand. I guess this is a case of we are all different, have different expectations etc

He’d also had the afternoon out Saturday but I asked if he could come back a bit sooner than originally planned

Yes.

My husband plays football twice a week but if our son is really unwell (he has croup last month for example) then he tends to cancel so we are both there for him