“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.