After Her Teen Daughter Left Her Youngest Daughter With Her New Neighbor Without Her Permission, She Grounded Her
If you’re an older sibling, did you hate it when you had to babysit your younger siblings instead of going out with friends?
One single mother is distraught after she asked her teenager to watch her little sister during an emergency, and she ended up leaving her with strangers so she could see her friends.
She is a single mother with three children. A 16-year-old daughter named Polly, a 12-year-old son named Trevor, and an 8-year-old daughter named Cassie.
She has little to no help raising her kids. Their dad isn’t around, her mom lives two hours away, and she has 2 babysitters that help whenever they’re available.
She explained that she wants to keep Polly’s teenage years as normal as possible and always makes an effort to hire a babysitter before asking her to watch her siblings. And when Polly does have to babysit, she gets paid $15 an hour.
Recently, Trevor had been quite sick over the course of a few days before waking up with a high fever. She needed to take him to the ER.
It was a Saturday afternoon, and Polly was due to hang out with some friends, but none of the babysitters were responding, so she would have to watch her little sister at home while Trevor went to the hospital.
“I apologized that she’d have to miss out on time with friends but said I’d pay her, and she could even have her friends over at our place,” she explained. “Polly pitched a fit and asked why I couldn’t send Cassie to the neighbors.”
The neighbors Polly was referring to had just moved in a month ago, and she didn’t know them. There was no prior relationship with these neighbors other than the occasional wave from their mailboxes. To try and sweeten the deal for Polly, she said she would pay her $18 an hour before leaving with Trevor.
Andrey_Arkusha – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual child
While they waited around the ER, she got numerous messages from Polly, who was impatiently asking if the babysitters had responded, and they hadn’t.
When Trevor was finally seen by the doctor, they diagnosed him with the respiratory syncytial virus, also known as RSV. The poor kid had to be admitted to the hospital for a day because of his previous health conditions. She was terrified.
She called Polly to give her an update when she heard voices in the background on Polly’s end. At first, she thought Polly had taken up her offer and invited a few friends over to their house. But no, Polly told her she had dropped Cassie off at the new neighbor’s house and went to be with her friends.
“I was furious,” she recalled. “I told her to go home and get her sister. I then asked for the neighbor’s number, she didn’t even ask for it.”
She grounded Polly over the phone and had her pick up her sister from the neighbor’s house. Thankfully, although they were strangers, they were very nice and even apologized for being unable to call.
Her mother made the two-hour drive to watch Polly and Cassie while Trevor rested up before he returned home. Once everyone was home, she gave Polly a lecture about her actions and grounded her for two weeks. Polly says she is overreacting.
Do you think she’s overreacting, or does Polly deserve it?
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