Her Parents Wanted Her To Nanny Her Little Brother During Her Entire First Week Of College, And She Said No
This nineteen-year-old woman lives in Europe and has two brothers– who are seventeen and five years old.
And ever since her youngest brother, James, was born, her parents have expected a lot from her.
In fact, she believes she is basically her brothers’ free nanny sometimes– especially with her father constantly being away due to work and her mother trying to manage things on her own.
“I usually don’t mind… but my parents make it seem like he is my responsibility,” she said.
But, in September, she will be starting university. The campus is right in her hometown, so she will not be traveling too far.
Nonetheless, she got her own apartment that she will be moving into this weekend– which she is ecstatic about.
Plus, she even believed that her parents would be excited, too. Apparently, they have made multiple comments over the past couple of years about how they could not wait for her to leave the nest because she is “so lazy.”
Now, though, there is a major issue– her parents both have to travel for work for the entirety of next week and want her to take care of her five-year-old brother.
This normally would not be such a problem, but she does not want to miss orientation week.
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“It is super important for getting to know the people you will spend the next few years with. It is also important to attend because all of the important information will be given out during this week,” she explained.
Moreover, orientation starts at 10:00 a.m. every day and does not end until late in the evening. So, she is super stressed out about her younger brother’s care.
Apparently, her parents expect her to take James to and from daycare every single day of orientation week.
Then, they want her to spend the evenings with him, feed and bathe him, then put him to bed– which will basically be impossible for her to manage. So, she was forced to tell her parents no.
“I said it won’t be possible because of my university schedule to take him to daycare and, depending on my schedule, help out,” she recalled.
“I also reminded them that my seventeen-year-old brother is also capable of helping out since he is still living with them and does not have such a packed schedule.”
Nonetheless, her parents said her seventeen-year-old brother needs to “focus on his high school studies” and is not capable of caring for his younger brother.
She thinks that’s nonsense, though, since she has been caring for her brothers since she was fourteen years old.
Regardless, though, she has been stuck between a rock and a hard place. She does not want to make her parents’ lives more difficult, but she realizes that what they are asking of her is way too much.
Plus, they are not even sympathetic about how much this situation has been stressing her out.
Instead, they yelled at her, said she should never ask them for help again, and refused to even offer her any form of compensation for basically nannying her brother for an entire week.
But, even though she genuinely believes her parents are in the wrong, she is not sure if refusing to look after her little brother would be a jerky thing to do.
Do you think her parents are expecting way too much of her? Should she feel guilty about saying no?
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