'She just left her two toddlers in my apartment': Mom expects neighbor to babysit her kids while working from home, leaves them at the doorstep without asking and refuses to come back

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 8, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Working from home has many advantages, which is why most people would give anything to have the option to work without ever leaving the comfort of their own homes. It's peaceful, there's no commute, and no office drama to deal with. 

However, it's also important to note that while the advantages are great, there are also some disadvantages to the whole deal, and those should be taken into consideration before you build your own home office.

For example, people who work from home usually don't have a great work-life balance. If you don't have clear work hours from home, you can often find yourself sleeping in until 11 AM, and then still working at 8 PM. For some people, this arrangement might be great, but it can also create stress when you can't separate when you're supposed to be working from when you're supposed to rest.

Another huge disadvantage of working from home is that everyone you know will simply assume you are available for their beck and call, just because you do not work from an office.

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  • That is exactly what happened to the poor employee in the story below. They were working from home when their neighbor suddenly knocked on the door and demanded they watch her kids while she took care of something else.

    Nobody would have expected this employee to babysit some toddlers if they were working in an office, but since they work from home, for some reason, this demand seemed okay.

    Keep scrolling to read how the employee reacted.

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    You work from home so you can watch my kids, right?

    I had baby sat my neighbors kids once because I work from home. One morning, she knocked on my door in a rush and asked if I could watch the
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    kids for an hour because she has a date with her friends Before I could respond, she was already in her car. She
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    just left her two toddlers in my apartment. I had to call her back to explain to her that I couldn't do cause I was in a Zoom
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    meeting, and tell her to come get them. And she responded by saying well, if you're home anyway, what's the big deal
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    The big deal is they're not mine and I don't run free childcare out of my living room.
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    AdMurky1021 The big deal is you'll be arrested for child abandonment. Get your sorry a back here now.
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    supermouse35 This is why I don't even answer the door if I'm not expecting someone, lol.
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    Regular-Olive8280 The best thing to do when working from home is to tell yourself you are actually in the office. You cannot answer your front door from the office. You
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    cannot run out to pick up a prescription for a neighbor if you are at the office. In some cases you cannot even use your personal phone at the office except on breaks. Now
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    apply those rules to your own home and a lot of your problems will go away. DON'T ANSWER THE DOOR!!!
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    Wakemeup3000 Some people don't understand that working from home is still working. Took years to train family and friends when I started working
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    from home. I just quit answering the phone and wouldn't answer the door during work hours.
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    Wolfangel71 I'd watch them if it was a real emergency, but what she did is inexcusable. I'd tell her that the next time she tries to dump them on you, she'll be picking them up at the police station.
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    Aimeebernadette At which point, you call the police and inform them that two children have been abandoned at your apartment and, after you called the mother, she is refusing to collect them. Let her deal with social services.
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    Pretty-Ad9820 Put a sign on your door explaining that you're working in a meeting or whatever and that you don't want to be interrupted or disturbed
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    SpliffsnKicks Props to you for being a friendly neighbor... mine would never consider doing some sh like this Imo
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    Mickeys_mom_8968 I don't care if I'm watching paint dry. If I say no I mean no.
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    em2477 Buy a camerabell
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