Siblings want what the other has at every age, even when they’re grown and raising kids of their own.

Imagine your youngest son expected the exact same childcare his brother once received, but when your wife set a boundary, he decided you didn’t deserve alone time with your grandson?

Would you just quietly accept it? Or would you confront him?

In the following story, one father finds himself in this predicament and decides to question his son.

Here’s what happened next.

AlTA for wanting some alone time with my youngest grandson even though my wife refused regular babysitting?

My wife and I are both 48. When we were 40, our first grandchild was born via our oldest son.

Our oldest grandson is now 8. My wife doesn’t work, so from ages 0–4, she babysat him while his parents went to work.

Now she only babysits him during holiday breaks or summer vacation. Since he isn’t a toddler, listens well, and can entertain himself with a tablet or TV, it’s fairly easy for her.

Their youngest son expected the same treatment his brother got.

Our youngest son is 22 and has an 8-month-old son. When he was 2 months old, our youngest son seemed to expect my wife to babysit him just like she did with our oldest grandson.

When she told him she was tired and didn’t want to babysit as much anymore, he was upset and brought up his brother and nephew, but then just dropped it. Since then, we haven’t had any alone time with our youngest grandson.

His Wife quit her job to stay home until their child starts school. Even when my wife offers to babysit, they refuse.

Fed up, they confronted them.

We confronted them about it.

Our youngest son said that we had “already refused” and being alone with their son counts as babysitting, so they didn’t see any reason to change anything.

After that, he added that we acted like watching his son would be a burden, while his mom continues to watch his nephew from time to time, so he doesn’t want his family to rely on us.

They still won’t let it go.

It’s been five months now, and my wife feels hurt and left out.

We’ve only seen our grandson when his mom or my son visits, and they never leave him alone with us. It really hurts.

My wife just didn’t want to be a full-time babysitter again, and now it feels like we’re being punished for it. I’m not really sure what to do.

AITA?

Yikes! It’s easy to see why they’re upset, but it seems like they proved their point.

Let’s see what the readers over at Reddit think about this drama.

According to this person, they chose this.

Here’s a good point.

This is how a mother of four feels about it.

For this person, there are consequences of having favorites.

They can’t have it both ways.

It sounds like their youngest son’s feelings are hurt, and for good reason.

If you liked that story, read this one about grandparents who set up a college fund for their grandkid because his parents won’t, but then his parents want to use the money to cover sibling’s medical expenses.