This woman’s sister-in-law lives in a large home with six bedrooms on 10 acres of land. So, while she and her family are in the process of building a house right across the street, they are living in a camper that is parked on her sister-in-law’s property.
She and her family, including her 12-year-old daughter, her 14-year-old son, and her 8-year-old son, were only allowed inside the sister-in-law’s home when they needed to shower.
Even though there was electricity in the camper they were staying in, there was no running water, so taking showers in the home was necessary. They also paid her sister-in-law typical campground prices, which amount to $180 per week.
And the majority of the time, the family was across the street, assisting in the building of their new home. But one afternoon, her sister-in-law asked the family to come inside and have a discussion and soon pulled out a chores list.
Then, she quickly realized that her sister-in-law had added her kids’ names to the list!
“Things like laundry, dishes, cleaning the living room, sweeping, mopping, cleaning table and countertops, garbage, returnables, even helping cook meals (we do not eat with them), etc.,” she explained.
After delivering a spiel, her sister-in-law asked the family if that would work for them. But she immediately said no, and refused to let her children be assigned chores within a house that they were not even staying in.
After all, the only thing they used in the house were the bathrooms, and her sister-in-law wouldn’t even let anyone help out with cleaning those– claiming that only she could do it correctly!
“I’m not going to be making them do chores to that extent for simply using the bathroom after they’ve been helping us all day with building our home,” she said.
However, her sister-in-law was accusing her children of being in there way more often than they let on, telling her that all of the snacks were eaten and the house was messy when she got home.
But, she tried to explain that this was likely due to the fact that her sister-in-law’s 12-year-old daughter had had friends over a lot more since summer started, and her sister-in-law’s 46-year-old husband wasn’t doing anything to keep these hangouts under control.
She already told her children not to eat snacks they found in the house because she knew her sister-in-law would notice and take offense!
Anyway, throughout all of this family drama, her husband has been suggesting that she let her children do a few of the chores that her sister-in-law assigned to them. He thinks that even one or two chores per week might keep the peace with everyone.
Still, because of the fact that they hardly ever go into the house, and the fact that they pay to live on the property, she refuses. She’s even suggested that they get their own outhouse system on their property, just so they don’t have to continue going into her sister-in-law’s house anymore.
“He says I’m making things more difficult when in reality, I’m protecting my kids from being used,” she added.
Do you think that she should let her children do some of the requested chores, or do you think her sister-in-law is in the wrong for asking for the chores to be done by them in the first place?
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