'Girl, what? I'm not a daycare': Mom dumps her 9 and 6-year-old at the neighbor's house unannounced, expecting them to babysit for free because they have no kids and 'no real responsibilities'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
May 29, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Moms and dads sometimes rely on their community to help raise their kids. Through neighborhood parks, friendly grannies own the street, and pop up lemonade stands, there are tons of ways to get your kiddo out into the community, but the mom in this next story had another idea about what her community could provide for her: Free childcare.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for community support and loving your neighbors, but there's a line in the sand when it comes to cordial neighborly interactions. As an introverted person by nature, my home space is sacred, so while friendly neighbor interactions are always the goal, ultimately, I'm going to protect the peace of my household. 

This entitled mom in this next story only wanted to protect her own peace when she dumped her two young children on the neighbor next door. Unbeknownst to the neighbor, because she had no children of her own—and therefore "no responsibilities"—it was her duty to sit around and wait for her neighbor to run errands, babysitting her kids in the meantime for free. Leaning into your community for support is one thing, but taking advantage of the kindness of others only to guilt-trip them afterwards is a whole other level of entitlement. 

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  • Babysit my kids every week for free because you have no kids.
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  • I (32F) live in a small apartment complex and recently got friendly with a woman who moved in a couple months ago. She's probably in her early 40s, has
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  • two kids and seemed nice enough at first. We chatted in the courtyard a few times and she found out I don't go to work everyday and I don't have kids yet.
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  • Two days ago, she randomly knocks on my door and asks if I could help watch her kids from 11am to 3pm, because she has an interview.
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  • I hesitated and I'm not really equipped to babysit. She says, it's just a few hours I don't even have kids and I've got time.
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  • Against my better judgment, I agreed, thinking it was a one time favor. She drops off her two boys (6 and 9), with no snacks, no water bottles, no instructions,
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  • and just told me they like cartoons. Four hours of chaos later, she finally shows up and doesn't even say thank you. Just informs me they'll probably be back next week, same time.
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  • Excuse me? Do you another interview next week? I told her I couldn't do it again unless she could pay a small fee, $30 for 4 hours seemed reasonable.
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  • She then said she thought we were friends that she doesn't have that kind of money. Then she goes... You don't even have real responsibilities, you should be helping your community instead of asking for cash like a daycare.
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  • Girl, what? I'm not a daycare, a maid, or your snack sponsor. Safe to say, I no longer answer the door.
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  • Green-Reality7430 I lived in an apartment complex with my daughter who was 10 years old at the time. There was a family upstairs with 2 little girls she would play outside with. Well
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  • one day, their mom had to go run errands, so she asked my 10 year old child if I could babysit. My child, who does not understand adult responsibilities, said sure. So
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  • these little girls show up at my apartment, and at first I thought they were just playing together which is fine. But then it got to be our dinner time so I sent them home. And they tell me they can't go home, their mom left and locked them out. [???]
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  • I had her number so I text her that I have her girls, and she says she is just out running errands will be back soon. Long story short the girls were at my apartment until after our bedtime until she finally
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  • got home. I told her, in the future please ask ME if I can babysit, not my child. And she had the nerve to be defensive with me and say my child shouldn't have said it was okay if it wasn't. Ummm?? She is a child??? Why is she even involved??
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  • HuuffingLavender ⚫ I was a nanny and the amount of times other moms would bring their kid for a playdate, then leave them with me and go off to do their own stuff, was insane. Most times they wouldn't even ask, they just assumed it was fine.
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  • I was in my early 20s and didn't really know how to advocate for myself (tell them no or ask for $). Finally the dad of the kid I nannied for said I wasn't allowed to do that (he was the one paying after all) so it helped when I told them I couldn't, they needed to take it up with him.
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  • DinahM1ght • Interviews don't take 4 hours. They also don't happen "at the same time next week". She did not go to an interview
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  • slick_sandpaper ⚫ $30 for 4 hours is the most ludacris offer I've heard... Did I read that right? You asked them to pay you ONLY $30 for the entire 4 hours, with 2 kids and no snacks/water/etc...?
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  • RoyallyOakie ⚫ If she can't pay you $30 for four hours, what is she going to do if she actually gets a job? Methinks these "interviews" are bogus.
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