Dealing with teenagers as a parent can get tricky, especially when it comes to asking the kids to make changes to their routines!

This guy’s daughter didn’t want to stop gaming with her friends but he had a visitor for a few days who needed to sleep!

Check out how things got bad.

AITA for “prioritizing my niece”

I have a daughter 15f right now.

My niece 17f is going to be staying with us for a bit because her parents are going on a trip she’ll be with us for around 10 days.

The daughter has her routine…

Anyways her school starts quite early so she has to get up by around 6:00 am now our house is further away from her school than her house is so she has to get up even earlier around 5:30 AM.

My daughters school only starts at 9:00 am and our school is nearby so she usually gets up by 7:30-7:45.

She plays video games usually after dinner I’m okay with it nowadays because she’s almost 16.

So as long as she gets at least 8 hours of sleep I’m generally fine with it.

The niece wanted her quite time to fall asleep.

My niece will be staying in the living room where the TV is. She says she’ll sleep by 9:00 so I told her I’d give her some quiet time before she could sleep.

She’s fine with us being in the living room but doesn’t want the TV on. I told my daughter she can’t play video games in the living room after 8:15pm.

The daughter doesn’t want to miss out on her games.

Unfortunately she has her PC in the living room and she says she doesn’t want to miss out on playing with friends at night and that she’ll miss out a lot.

I get it but my niece has to get up early and it’s important for her to get good sleep as she’s under a lot of pressure in school right now.

He wanted the daughter to accommodate her cousin for a few days.

So I just told her no and to just adjust for a bit.

My daughter got really angry and said I’m prioritizing her and that I’m spoiling my niece and I shouldn’t be depriving her of video games.

I told her she can play before and has plenty of time but she refuses to budge and she’s now upset.

The daughter might feel frustrated but she had a guest to adjust with!

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit have to say about this story.

This user suggests letting the daughter be in the living room if she wants to play the video games!

This user suggests the same thing as the previous one.

The daughter needs to realize her responsibilities.

This user tells how they would react if they were in this guy’s shoes.

The niece can have the bedroom!

The father needs to rethink his parenting here!

They can surely come to a middle ground for ten days.

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