Her Husband’s Niece Secretly Recorded Her Ignoring Her Toddler Son Having A Tantrum, And Sent It To Some of Her In-Laws
This 31-year-old woman is a stay-at-home mother who has a 3-year-old son and a 6-month-old daughter.
Her husband’s 19-year-old niece Jessica stays there with them a few days a week because the college she goes to is super close to where they live. Whenever Jessica is not there, she lives with her mother.
Although Jessica doesn’t pay them rent or help out with house chores, Jessica’s mother sometimes will send $100 or so to help contribute to any bills.
She describes her house as pretty loud because whenever she is not holding her daughter, her daughter will scream and cry. While she tries to keep her close at most times throughout the day, whenever she has to bathe her son, she will put her daughter in her crib, and she will scream so loud for 15-20 minutes.
Even though her daughter is completely safe, her tantrums sound over the top. Additionally, her son throws fits a lot, too, and has a super sharp scream that’s loud enough to pierce your ears. But while they are at home, she usually just ignores him and lets him wear himself out by yelling and having a tantrum.
“Sometimes I have to wear noise-canceling headphones and cover my daughter’s ears while he’s throwing tantrums. And he does it a lot, like 3-4 times a week; sometimes, it happens twice a day. He usually calmed down after an hour. The longest was two hours,” she explained.
One night, while Jessica was in the kitchen washing some dishes, her son was in the living room nearby, throwing a huge fit because she wanted him to say ‘please.’ If this tantrum had happened in public or at someone else’s house, she would typically put on a video for him in order to calm him down and distract him.
However, since they were at home, she thought it would be best to let him work through his feelings on his own rather than rely on a video.
So, her son screamed, thrashed around, and she sat there at the dinner table eating her meal. Every once in a while, he would take breaks from screaming, she would hand him some water, and then once he started yelling again, she went back to calmly eating her dinner. All of this continued for about an hour and a half.
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“Jessica secretly recorded some of it, and she sent it to her family group chat that I am not a part of. She didn’t say anything to me. We typically pretend the other doesn’t exist. She also didn’t say anything when sending the video,” she said.
After this secret sending of the video, her husband was pretty offended by Jessica’s actions and felt like his niece was tattling about them to the rest of the family.
Her sister-in-law suggested that she do something to help the children calm down when they are so clearly in distress, and it seemed like her sister-in-law had heard of this happening before.
Now, family members are fighting with each other all over her choice to ignore her children’s tantrums at home.
Do you think that she is wrong to do this? Or do you think it is a reasonable approach to take? Do you think Jessica was wrong to record and send video evidence?
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