Paying a babysitter to watch your kids while you’re at work can be expensive. That’s why it’s wonderful if you have family who can babysit for free.
In today’s story, one woman is counting on her brother to babysit for her, but he has said over and over again that he is not willing to babysit.
The drama only gets worse when their mom inserts herself in the middle and keeps asking her son to babysit.
Let’s see how the story play out…
AITA for not wanting to babysit 2 of my sister’s kids for a few hours?
I(22M) got asked last week by my mom(60F) that my sister(23F) was starting a new job after taking some time off raising her two kids: son (2M) and daughter (1F).
I was initially asked to watch the kids for a few hours the entire weekday, but every time I was asked by my mom, I would always tell her no.
My mom then goes on a repetitive cycle saying how I have to help her, that this is what we do for family.
OP’s mom keeps repeating herself.
And to top it all off she then asks me, “Okay OP just tell me yes or no. Will you do it?”
I say, “No.”
Then the conversation repeats. “Okay OP tell me yes or no?” A
nd you guessed it, it’s a no from me.
She then went on a third time before I completely ignored her and left.
His mom is repeating herself on the phone.
She then called me the next day asking me to do it for a few days, instead of the initial 5.
I still say no.
She then continues and I hang up.
She then called me a few times and each time I hanged up on her.
The mom and sister are seriously not taking “no” for an answer.
After this repetitive cycle, I just ignored her calls.
She would then call my other sister(35F) to try and convince me, but I still wouldn’t budge.
On the phone today my mom and my sister were trying to smooth my transition to babysit for them by saying that I would only need to watch the kids for 2 hours, then it changed to 1 hour, and then 30 minutes after I kept on saying “no no no.”
OP explained to his sister why he doesn’t want to babysit.
I told them honestly, “I’m not a responsible person. Kids are not dolls. They require your full attention since 1 second they could be watching TV and then the next, anything dangerous could happen. Also wouldn’t you realistically want your kids to be watched by someone who is actively interested in them?”
My sister agreed, “Yeah OP I just don’t have anyone else to watch them. Our brother agreed to do 2 days, my husband’s mom agreed to do 1 day and now I need you to do the remaining 2. I will pay you!”
I angrily said “It’s not about the pay! I just don’t like kids. I can’t babysit. I’m sorry. You should’ve found a babysitter at your church or somewhere else the week before when you already knew that I didn’t agree to it.”
OP’s mom apparently told his sister he agreed to babysit.
My sister was surprised, “You didn’t agree to it before? But mom told me that you agreed to it originally.”
This was when I was totally confused and shocked. “What? I told mom EVERY SINGLE TIME no! Never once did I say yes!”
I told my other sister(35F) this convo and she said that I should just bite the bullet and babysit for her. Just tell her every time I’m done babysitting to find a new replacement.
OP’s mom sounds like the problem here considering she lied to OP’s sister and said that he agreed to babysit when he never agreed to babysit.
Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story…
OP’s mom should babysit.
It doesn’t sound like OP’s mom is planning on babysitting.
OP shouldn’t listen to his older sister.
He is not required to babysit.
OP’s sister knows the truth, so she will probably be more understanding.
It was messed up of his mom to lie to his sister.
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