'She's not my child': 19-year-old aunt gets ditched with her 2-year-old niece whenever Mom is tired of parenting, so she refuses to babysit ever again

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  • "AITA for 'abandoning' my niece because my sister wouldn’t come and get her?"

    My (19m) sister (26) still lives at home and likes to do this thing where she asks you to watch her daughter for "2 minutes" while she runs to the bathroom, so she goes and then time keeps ticking away and 2 minutes turns into 15 minutes and she still isn't back.
  • And you wonder what's taking her so long so you go and bang on the door and then she finally comes out 20 minutes after she left. So basically she just uses it as an excuse when she's fed up of being with her kid.
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  • I know what she's doing when she asks for this so I always say no, but she asked me this time and I said yeah because I wasn't doing anything anyway, but I did have to leave in 10-15 minutes and I told her that and she said she wouldn't be that long. I took
  • for her word for it and just went and amused her daughter (2) for the time being. It was getting closer to the time I had to leave at and she still wasn't out so I messaged her and she said she would be 1 minute. A
  • minute passed and she still wasn't out so I went up to the door and told her I had to go and I got no response, presumably because she was wearing NC headphones, either that or she was ignoring me lol. didn't hav
  • time to wait so I went back and told my niece to go and get her mom and I just left, and I could hear her crying and running after me as I was walking out the door. When I got back my sister was
  • р ed and asked what was wrong with me and why would I just "abandon" her while she was crying like that and I just said I had to go and I did tell her I had to be gone by a certain time. I felt a bit bad but at the same time she's not my child..
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  • Japes2much NTA. Sister heard 2 year old crying as you left. She heard you that you had to leave and were leaving, she just didn't care. She figured if she ignored you you would stay.
  • Notahappygardener Your sister needs to grow up, you can't just leave your kid and then ignore the person watching them. It's a wake up call for her, don't ab e your support system, they will leave if you do.
  • Loves Tacoss22 shes mad because she has to parent her child.
  • Licensed KarmaEscort My aunt had very clingy. toddlers. They'd get more confident around school age, but somehow all three were suuuuuper clingers. She often would just hand them to a person they liked and sneak off. Which was
  • kinda awful cuz when the kid noticed Mom wasn't there, whoever was holding them had to deal with that. And I swear it was always me. (Ok, it wasn't. But I was the one she did it to the most because babies love
  • me and I was very much broken down to think refusing adults anything was "selfish" and nothing NOTHING was worse than being selfish. And yes, this led to some very dark situations. I'm sticking to the cute story tho here.)
  • Anyway, I got a bit of revenge. I'd let the kiddos have sips of my sugary energy drinks or respond to their wailing with "Oh, are we screaming now? Let's. scream now! Okay cmon,
  • give me your best! Hey! You can do better, YELL!" Honestly she must have needed those breaks bad because I definitely have kids back in worse shape than I got them. And I bought recorders with Disney songbooks for birthdays.
  • stormstormsmilez All moms deserve a moment or two without their created goblins on them or touching them lol... I took was the kid that had babies passed off on me... But I really do love kids and have a way with them lol.. but when I was a mom and was struggling with even
  • having a moment to pee or shower or time for myself I thought I'd go crazy because I really didn't have much in the way of help... Luckily I made a bunch of friends with other new moms
  • going through the exact same thing who also needed a much deserved break and we teamed up as a group to rotate kids between us so a mom could get some alone time away from screaming
  • minions when needed and the others new that they could too if and when needed... I got lucky that way and wished I know it was an option much sooner lol

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