Parenting

<p>It&#39;s normal to not want to babysit if you don&#39;t have kids of your own. It&#39;s even normal to not want to watch your own kids. But this woman in the next story takes not wanting to babysit to a whole other...controversial level. When this aunt refuses to watch her nephew after very clearly stating that she did NOT want to babysit, she takes to the popular <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/wb7bgd/aita_for_not_caring_for_a_child_i_said_i_wouldnt/">Reddit forum</a> to ask:</p><h1>&quot;AITA for not caring for a child I said I wouldn&#39;t care for?&quot;</h1><p> </p><p>Throwaway account for privacy.</p><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I (28f) am childfree, I don&#39;t even really like kids. My sister (23f Amber) has a kid and because it&#39;s a pretty close knit family she&#39;s pretty used to everyone pitching in to help. She said she was going out for a few hours and was stopping at my house to pick up a package delivered to me by mistake (we have the same street number on similar sounding streets - think 25 Hursh and 25 Hurst so this happens pretty often).</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Okay OP, I&#39;M NERVOUS.</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>When Amber got to my house she put down her kid and said &quot;thanks for watching him by the way&quot; I asked her what she was talking about, she said she was thanking me for watching her kid as well. I said that I never agreed to it and was not okay with that but she said &quot;we&#39;re sisters, family helps family&quot; and ended up leaving.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><h2>Okay, that wasn&#39;t cool of the sister to just leave though. Maybe OP isn&#39;t the AH?</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>So I didn&#39;t. I left the kid right in my entryway where Amber left him and just went about my day. I didn&#39;t leave the house or anything but I said I&#39;m not a babysitter and I wasn&#39;t one. Well, Amber got mad at me when she came back four hours later and the kid had a full diaper and was crying when he saw her.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><h2>Am I reading this correctly? Auntie left nephew OUTSIDE?</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I told her I said I wasn&#39;t watching her kid and she&#39;s lucky I didn&#39;t call the police, but Amber said that not wanting to babysit doesn&#39;t mean you don&#39;t do it.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><h2>I&#39;m so glad I&#39;m not in this family.</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The entire family sides with her and Amber says she&#39;s cutting me off until I apologize and make more of an effort with &quot;my nephew&quot;. I&#39;ve gotten nasty messages from relatives galore and the only one who doesn&#39;t think me a raging bi**h is my dad who doesn&#39;t involve at all in family drama.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><h2>You might wanna speak up Dad...</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I do love my sister and understand family is family but am I really TA for not doing a job I expressly said I don&#39;t want?</p> </blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><h2>Let&#39;s see what Reddit users had to say.</h2><p> </p><h2><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Jjustingraham/">justingraham</a> writes:</h2><blockquote> <p>YTA. OP should be able to reason that a baby cannot be left unsupervised for four hours. All the other stuff is window dressing. OP isn&#39;t saying they didn&#39;t know that. They&#39;re saying that explicitly didn&#39;t care, and were willing to let the baby die to prove how much it wasn&#39;t their problem.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><h2><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Classic_Apple_8140/">classicapple </a>writes:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>This is what makes OP TA for me. Yes the sister sucks for dumping and running, but OP just straight up put a BABY in danger to prove a point. What a ridiculous hill to die on.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><h2><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Choice_Werewolf1259/">Choicewerewolf </a>writes:</h2><blockquote> <p>ESH. Yep. G-d they&rsquo;re both so toxic. Like the sister should never allow for baby to be around OP and OP should never allow sister to be so negligent without consequence.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><h2>Well, this family is toxic a f. Still, is OP def the AH for leaving the kid unsupervised? I mean, the sister just left him there. What do you think?</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman asks if she's wrong to refuse to babysit child she was 'forced' to watch.

It&#39;s normal to not want to babysit if you don&#39;t have kids of your own. It&#39;s even normal to not want to watch your own kids. But this woman in the next story takes not wanting to babysit to a whole other...controversial level. When this aunt refuses to watch her nephew after very clearly stating that she did NOT want to babysit, she takes to the popular Reddit forum to ask:&quot;AITA for not caring for a child I said I wouldn&#39;t care for?&quot; Throwaway account for privacy.  I (28f) am childfree, I don&#39;t even really like kids. My sister (23f Amber) has a kid and because it&#39;s a pretty close knit family she&#39;s pretty used to everyone pitching in to help. She said she was going out for a few hours and was stopping at my house to pick up a package delivered to me by mistake (we have the same street number on similar sounding streets - think 25 Hursh and 25 Hurst so this happens pretty often). Okay OP, I&#39;M NERVOUS.  When Amber got to my house she put down her kid and said &quot;thanks for watching him by the way&quot; I asked her what she was talking about, she said she was thanking me for watching her kid as well. I said that I never agreed to it and was not okay with that but she said &quot;we&#39;re sisters, family helps family&quot; and ended up leaving.  Okay, that wasn&#39;t cool of the sister to just leave though. Maybe OP isn&#39;t the AH?  So I didn&#39;t. I left the kid right in my entryway where Amber left him and just went about my day. I didn&#39;t leave the house or anything but I said I&#39;m not a babysitter and I wasn&#39;t one. Well, Amber got mad at me when she came back four hours later and the kid had a full diaper and was crying when he saw her.  Am I reading this correctly? Auntie left nephew OUTSIDE?  I told her I said I wasn&#39;t watching her kid and she&#39;s lucky I didn&#39;t call the police, but Amber said that not wanting to babysit doesn&#39;t mean you don&#39;t do it.  I&#39;m so glad I&#39;m not in this family.  The entire family sides with her and Amber says she&#39;s cutting me off until I apologize and make more of an effort with &quot;my nephew&quot;. I&#39;ve gotten nasty messages from relatives galore and the only one who doesn&#39;t think me a raging bi**h is my dad who doesn&#39;t involve at all in family drama.  You might wanna speak up Dad...  I do love my sister and understand family is family but am I really TA for not doing a job I expressly said I don&#39;t want?   Let&#39;s see what Reddit users had to say. justingraham writes: YTA. OP should be able to reason that a baby cannot be left unsupervised for four hours. All the other stuff is window dressing. OP isn&#39;t saying they didn&#39;t know that. They&#39;re saying that explicitly didn&#39;t care, and were willing to let the baby die to prove how much it wasn&#39;t their problem.  classicapple writes:  This is what makes OP TA for me. Yes the sister sucks for dumping and running, but OP just straight up put a BABY in danger to prove a point. What a ridiculous hill to die on.  Choicewerewolf writes: ESH. Yep. G-d they&rsquo;re both so toxic. Like the sister should never allow for baby to be around OP and OP should never allow sister to be so negligent without consequence.  Well, this family is toxic a f. Still, is OP def the AH for leaving the kid unsupervised? I mean, the sister just left him there. What do you think?

It&#39;s normal to not want to babysit if you don&#39;t have kids of your own. It&#39;s even normal to not want to watch your own kids. But this woman in the next story takes not wanting to babysit to a whole other...controversial level....