Babysitting nieces and nephews is nice, but sometimes family members seem to expect free babysitting.

In today’s story, one aunt refuses to babysit her stepsister’s daughter even though she often babysits her brother’s kids.

The stepsister is miffed about the whole thing.

Let’s see why she doesn’t want to babysit for her…

AITA for refusing to babysit for my stepsister when I babysit for my brother?

My brother has three kids ages 4 and under and my stepsister has a 7 month old.

I do not have an ongoing relationship with my stepsister.

We weren’t close when my dad married her mom and her mom was my dad’s affair partner and she was the kid who thought it was great so my brother and I didn’t really like her for that.

She thought we were brats who couldn’t accept that her mom was better than ours and that’s why the affair wasn’t a bad thing.

She doesn’t stay in touch with her dad.

We ended up choosing as older teenagers to not see our dad anymore.

He kept trying to keep us in his life. But he broke our mom’s heart and he broke our trust.

Plus he gave us no time to accept our parents breaking up.

He left our family home and moved in with his affair partner and married her three days after the divorce from mom was finalized and he was pushing his stepdaughter as our “sister.”

One of her relatives gave her contact info to her stepsister.

We did stay in touch with our dad’s siblings.

They have stayed in touch with dad and his new family.

About a week ago they gave my stepsister my contact info, and she asked if I would be able to help her out with babysitting since she heard I do it for my brother.

I said no.

Her aunt thinks she should have agreed to babysit for her stepsister.

She tried to pull the family card, and I told her we were never family and to ask her parents for help, or the people who gave her my contact info.

Then I told my aunt’s and uncle’s whoever give her my info was wrong.

My aunt who gave it to her said it wouldn’t have killed me to get to know my niece and to help my stepsister when I do it for my brother all the time.

I told her the difference is he’s my brother and his kids are my nieces and nephew’s and my stepsister and her kid are not those things.

Her stepsister tried to ask her to babysit again.

Stepsister tried to call again, and when I didn’t answer she sent me a text saying I was an a****** and she’s in need and she knows I do it.

I blocked her.

She must have told my aunt who said I was being petty.

So now I ask AITA?

She should be able to decide who she wants to babysit, and the aunt shouldn’t have given out her contact information.

Let’s see how Reddit responded…

This reader thinks the stepsister is acting entitled.

Another reader suggests blocking the aunt.

This reader is on her side.

Another reader agrees that she didn’t do anything wrong.

Babysitting family should be considered a nice thing to do not an obligation.

But when the family doesn’t care for you, why would they care for your kids?

If you liked that post, check out this story about a guy who was forced to sleep on the couch at his wife’s family’s house, so he went to a hotel instead.