23-year-old daughter refuses to babysit 5-year-old sister after she is blamed for an ankle injury her younger sister sustained at a trampoline park, mother ‘coaches’ younger daughter into blaming the eldest: ‘I said I’d never watch her again’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jun 9, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

When you're an older sister, watching your younger siblings for free comes with the territory. It might be annoying to keep an eye on the troublesome tiny tots, but you gotta do what you gotta do for family. That is, only if they treat you with the respect you deserve. You should never feel like you have to put yourself through emotional turmoil just so you can appease family. If your parents and/or siblings try to pull a fast one on you in whatever way they can, you must unapologetically put your foot down.

In this next story, a 23-year-old woman babysits her 5-year-old sister to help her mother out. While out at a trampoline park, the 5-year-old steps down on her ankle and injures it. Throughout the next few days, the woman's little sister and mother make jokes about it, claiming the woman is to blame for the injury. What a strange joke to make about the one who watched her daughter when she needed her to… Scroll below to read the entire story.

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  • "A few weeks later was a family dinner, and my mother is over here getting my sister to say it like I broke her leg."
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  • "Aita for not wanting to watch my sister anymore because ‘I’m the one who broke her ankle’"

    Hello there. I 23f was asked the other day to watch my sister for a few hours Monday (tmrw) because it's summer and she out of school and no one else can but
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  • I left the text on open and feel a little bad for it. See about a year ago I was told to take her to the jumping place in our town my mom wanted to get the house
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  • clean without a 5 year old coming right behind her. I want to point out I didn't mind watching her it's no problem to me just lord it's a lot. We get there she's having
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  • fun. Only kids are allowed to jump. Doesn't matter that you're small for your age it's a safety thing because it's all made for well. Elementary kids tbh so I sit
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  • down and look at my phone while I wait for her to get tired of it. She goes down a slide all happy saying look look and I look. She's bouncing on the edge and into
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  • the air right before she put her feet on the ground. I called out telling her hey don't do that- she fells down and starts balling. I think okay I have this happen
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  • sometimes maybe she's just a weirdo like her sister and is double jointed in her ankle as well and she's never had this happen before. I tell her to walk if off it's
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  • okay just a little pressure cuz you play so much! I really did think it was just that and it scared her. She tries to go back then b lls some more so I panic. I called
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  • mom and then it begins. She thinks it's okay and it upset because she didn't even get that far but she said come home. We go home and it was horrible but
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  • my sister seemed fine the second we got back. She was told to just sit and relax it's okay. The next day it's worse. Turns out she went down on her leg the wrong
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  • way and snapped it on a plate. A few weeks later was a family dinner and my mother is over here getting my sister to say it like I broke her leg. She'd ask "did
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  • my name do that to you?" And my sister would shake her head after they knew there's no way for me to even be close to her to ig push her off? Step on her leg? They
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  • say I did it in all different ways. Our extended family came over even and she was telling them "hey sis did this. She broke my leg" I was worried because of a
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  • mandated reporter heard that. I could be in trouble at my job at the time (I worked at a daycare) so after that I said I'd never watch her again. I've learnt people take
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  • that seriously not as a joke they mean and that can mess up my life. Get my docs taken get me blacklisted! I feel bad for not answering and don't feel this is
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  • good enough to not at least explain why I can't do it. I really just don't want something to happen out of my control again and it be spun as "I did this to
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  • her" like I'm a ng her but Aita for not wanting to watch her again after that? It's been a year and I still don't want too.
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  • Interesting_Setting NTA but I would blatantly tell my mom why I refuse to ever babysit again
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  • curiousblondwonders "After what happened last year, I am not comfortable watching her after you coached her in to blaming me for her injury. So no thank you. Good luck though!" NTA
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