She Refused To Babysit For Her Struggling Sister After She Accused Her Daughter of Stealing A Doll From Her House
Have you ever had to refuse to help somebody close to you? So many things can push us to our breaking point, and sometimes, we need to turn down helping a friend or relative.
One woman has refused to continue babysitting for her struggling sister after she accused her daughter of stealing something from her house.
She’s a 39-year-old mom of a six-year-old daughter and works from home. She has a younger sister, Claire, who has two kids under 10.
Claire is currently going through a nasty split from her husband, the kids’ father, and needs help taking care of them.
Because she and Claire’s kids go to the same school and she has a flexible work schedule, she started picking up her niece and nephew from school and watching them for a few hours.
However, everything fell apart, and she eventually had to drop her babysitting duties after a recent incident.
Out of the blue, her niece’s doll went missing, and Claire called her and started blaming it on her daughter, saying she must’ve stolen the doll since the last time her daughter had it, she was at her house.
When she asked her daughter if she had her cousin’s doll, she said no, and she believed her. Then, she searched her entire house and couldn’t find the doll anywhere, making it obvious that no one had taken it, and Claire was making wrongful accusations.
“I told my sister all this, and she said that my daughter is a liar and a thief and that I’m enabling her,” she recalled.
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“She expects me to pay for a new doll.”
She became so angry with Claire that she told her she’d have to find someone else to babysit her kids because she refused to do it.
Over the last few days, Claire has been frantically trying to get in touch with her and get her back on as a babysitter for her kids. She and her husband blocked her number, but now she’s hearing all about Claire’s woes from her parents.
Apparently, Claire told their parents that she and her husband were the only people in her life that would be able to watch her kids. Claire also said she found her daughter’s doll and was ready to move on. However, Claire never tried to apologize for accusing her daughter of stealing the doll.
“She isn’t admitting she messed up,” she said.
“I would be happy to babysit again, but only if she sincerely apologized.”
Her parents think she should take the high road and start helping Claire again since she’s been very stressed out over her marriage ending. However, she doesn’t think there’s any excuse for her sister’s behavior.
“She disrespected my kid, and no amount of stress is preventing her from saying sorry and smoothing things over,” she added.
Is she being stubborn by refusing to help her sister, or should she hold out for a proper apology?
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