She’s Constantly Expected To Babysit Her Brother And Sister-In-Law’s Kids At The Drop Of A Hat, So She Finally Told Her Sister-In-Law To Stop Treating Her Like A Second Mother

Back in May 2021, this 15-year-old woman’s brother, who is 27, got married to his 25-year-old wife. Her now-sister-in-law was also married in the past and had a 5-year-old daughter with her ex-husband.
Anyway, back when her brother and sister-in-law first started dating, she would spend her entire summer babysitting the little girl. And she was only getting paid a measly $20 per day.
Still, she didn’t have problems watching her sister-in-law’s daughter until more recently, when yet another baby was added to the mix.
In October of last year, her brother and sister-in-law had their first baby together– a son. Ever since then, she claimed that her nephew had been attached to her hip.
Apparently, her brother and sister-in-law have a modular home that they put in her parents’ backyard. That way, they could be closer to family.
But all the close proximity did was ensure that she would always be at her brother and sister-in-law’s beck and call for childcare.
In the beginning, when she went back to school, she didn’t have to babysit. However, summer eventually rolled around again, and she began working her first job. At the same time, her brother and sister-in-law offered to let her babysit from time to time whenever she didn’t have a shift at work.
Well, they still never paid her. Once she started working just two or three days each week at her job, her brother and sister-in-law also figured out her schedule.
“Every day I was not working, they would come by the house and drop their kids off,” she recalled.

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She did eventually speak up about wanting to get paid for her services– especially if she was going to be babysitting so often. Nonetheless, her brother and sister-in-law just ignored her and continued dropping their kids off as usual.
Over the past few weeks, though, she’s been busy with her own stuff. She’s currently getting ready for school to start again and has had to go out of town a few times.
Rather than being understanding, though, her brother and sister-in-law actually claimed to be mad at her since she wasn’t around to babysit!
Then, just last week, they totally stepped over the line.
It all began after she decided to quit her job before the school year started, and she finally had a week off to herself.
At that point, her brother and sister-in-law arrived on a Friday night with just their nephew– asking if she could babysit him while they ran to her sister-in-law’s parent’s house.
They also reassured her that the entire trip would take just 30 minutes or less.
Well, once her brother and sister-in-law returned, they never went inside to pick up her nephew; instead, they just made it blatantly obvious that they were home.
“They were running around the yard screaming,” she explained.
“So after about two hours of having my nephew, it was his bedtime, and I started to take him to his house since I knew they were home.”
Yet, as soon as she started walking over to her brother and sister-in-law’s house, she saw their truck start pulling out of the driveway. Still, they eventually spotted her, and she just handed over her baby nephew and didn’t care what they thought.
Her mom wound up texting her a bit later, though, and claimed that her brother and sister-in-law wanted to take her step-niece to the fair for a few hours without having to worry about the baby.
But rather than allowing that to guilt her into babysitting her nephew again, she finally put her foot down.
“I finally got the nerve to tell my sister-in-law I’m tired of being more of a mother to him than she is and that I shouldn’t be expected to be at their beck and call,” she revealed.
Now, her sister-in-law has not spoken to her ever since she stood up for herself, and she’s gotten mixed reviews from her loved ones on the situation.
Some people believe that she was way too hash; meanwhile, others agreed with her and thought she was being totally reasonable. She also wanted to make it clear that it’s not just the free babysitting that irks her– it’s how her brother and sister-in-law always swear she won’t have her nephew for long.
“And it either ends up being a situation where he falls asleep for the night and stays with me, or it takes multiple hours, and they always claim that they just end up talking,” she vented.
“My niece also switches off with her dad every week, and whenever she is back, it seems like they dump her off to anyone that they can so they don’t have to take care of her.”
Regardless, even though she feels like this isn’t fair, she’s been left wondering whether telling her sister-in-law that she shouldn’t be expected to act like her step-niece and nephew’s mother made her a jerk.
Can you imagine being 15-years-old and having so much expected of you in terms of childcare? Was it good that she put her foot down for both her own and the children’s wellbeing? How would you have handled this situation?
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