Her Brother Is Furious With Her For Showing His Kids The Polar Express Movie, Because His Kids Snuck Out Of The House In The Middle Of The Night On Christmas Eve To Wait By The Train Tracks For The Polar Express To Arrive
A 29-year-old girl agreed to babysit for her brother’s children on the day prior to Christmas Eve because her brother wanted to take his wife out to a fancy dinner.
Her brother’s kids are 4, 6, and 7. Her brother and his wife headed out for dinner at 6 pm, and so she put a movie on for the kids to watch before tucking them into bed.
She picked out The Polar Express for the kids to watch, and they really did love the movie. She didn’t think the excitement that her nieces and nephew showed over the movie was anything out of the ordinary though.
Well, when Christmas Day arrived, her brother called her up and screamed at her for letting his kids watch that specific movie.
“I didn’t know this, but apparently, there is a set of train tracks that run behind their house (about 200 yards back), and on Christmas Eve, my nieces had snuck out of bed and walked out to them to “wait for the polar express,” she explained.
“My brother put them to bed around 10 and found them at 6 am unwrapping presents under the tree. He realized they’d been outside because their coats/boots were strewn about the hallway, and their faces were pink from having been out in the cold.”
“They don’t know how long the kids were out there (doctor estimated about 1.5 hours) and took them to the ER because my younger niece’s lips were blue and she was stumbling, where they found out that my younger niece had (thankfully mild) hypothermia.”
Her brother was livid, and he accused her of being a terrible babysitter, as well as not a responsible adult.
Her brother also expected her to sit all the kids down and tell them that the Polar Express is made up.
Maryna – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual kid
Her brother’s children could have gotten killed out there on the train tracks, and he thinks it is entirely her fault, even though his children thankfully were not seriously hurt in the cold.
Then, her brother said he was not going to take his kids to their mom and dad’s house for Christmas, and that crushed their mom and dad.
Right now, her brother still is not speaking to her, and he threatened never to let her spend time with his children again.
“I feel really awful about it, but at the same time, I really don’t think it’s my fault,” she said. “They recently moved to this house, and I’ve never visited before Christmas Eve since I live in the city and they’re about two hours away.”
“So I’ve never seen the house in daylight and had no idea there were train tracks near it. It never occurred to me to say that the movie wasn’t real, all the kids still believe in Santa, so I didn’t think there was any harm in showing them a Christmas movie.”
“I’ve gotten mixed reactions from people. My husband says it’s not my fault, and it’s completely on them, as does my father and sister, but my brother and my mom think I’m the worst person in the world. I feel really awful and don’t know what to do.”
Do you think she’s to blame for the kids sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve to wait for the Polar Express?
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