For Years, She Has Been Watching Her Youngest Daughter’s Dogs, But Now She Told Her She Can’t Do That Because Her Oldest Daughter Wants Her To Babysit But Doesn’t Want The Dogs Anywhere Near The Baby
It’s amazing to have family members around that are willing to help us take care of things as we get older.
One woman has been a dedicated mother to both of her daughters, who are all grown up but still need her help occasionally.
“They are both great kids that are successful and accomplished, and I couldn’t be more proud,” she said.
Her daughters both live near her but live very different lives. The eldest is 28, is married, and has a three-month-old baby. The youngest is 25 and travels a lot for work.
For the last three years, she’s been watching her youngest daughter’s two dogs whenever she travels.
Before her daughter takes off, she drops the dogs off at her house, and they typically stay with her for three days.
However, those plans may change.
Her eldest daughter has been on maternity leave since having her baby but is preparing to return to work.
She was asked if she’d like to take care of the baby during the day while her daughter and her husband are working. Wanting to spend more time with her new grandson, she said yes.
annaav – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual dogs
“We recently had a sit down about watching him,” she explained.
“My daughter and [her] husband gave me a list of rules. One they stressed was no animals around the baby. That one was a bit of a surprise and conflicts with the needs of my other daughter.”
When she asked her daughter why there couldn’t be any animals around the baby, she said it was for safety reasons. Therefore, she had to tell her younger daughter she couldn’t watch her dogs anymore.
“She did not take that news well and flipped out,” she recalled.
Her daughter told her it wasn’t fair of her to suddenly stop being able to watch the dogs and that having to hire a different dog sitter would be hard on her financially.
She offered to check in on the dogs in the evening whenever her daughter was away, but that wasn’t good enough. The dogs need to stay with someone when she’s gone, and her older daughter won’t budge on her animal rule.
Now, her younger daughter hasn’t spoken to her or her sister over the last week.
Is she being unreasonable, or is her younger daughter overreacting?
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