Stay-at-home mom refuses to babysit nieces while she's homeschooling her children, her entitled sister guilt trips her: "Family is supposed to help each other"

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jun 27, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Welcome back, people of the internet. Being homeschooled has so many connotations. People associate it with the freaks of society, people who never fully developed socially the way that everyone else does. They may miss out on ubiquitous jokes or notions that you just can't teach at home. Of course, these stereotypes aren't true at all. There are tons of freaks who grow up going to public or private schools, and even though they were around a social sphere, they may not understand the tacit rules of social mores that everyone else has. It's all random, and who wants to be a part of society anyway? 
 

When you're homeschooled, one must really master a sense of discipline at home. When mixing comfort, play, and work all together, lines become blurred and it's surprising that anyone can get anything done, especially in the age of "work from home."
 

In the story below, the protagonist is a stay-at-home homeschooling mom. To some people, this may sound like a free babysitter, but that's hardly the case. 

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    AITAH for not babysitting my nieces this summer?

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    I am a stay at home homeschooling Mom with two children. I homeschool my older child year round as we have found this just works best for us. I
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  • Stay-at-home mom homeschooling young children doesn't equate to free babysitter. It's completely entitled of her sister to assume that she's available to watch four children at once, one of which is an infant, as well as teach her son scholastics. Just pay for a sitter and get it over with. 

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    also have a toddler. We just recently moved to the same town my sister lives in. This is the first summer we've been here so
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    we've never been this close while her kids have summer vacation. She knows we homeschool year round, yet she's just asked me if I
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    would babysit my nieces 3-4 days a week all summer instead of sending them to daycare in order to save some money.
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    I told her I didn't think this would be a great idea because it would be very challenging to get my son to focus on his school work with
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    his cousins around. She then proceeded to tell me that family is supposed to help each other out and that they could really use the financial break of not paying
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    for daycare this summer. But I told her if we can't get my son's school work done, he would get behind and that isn't fair to him,
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    since we are likely going to try public school in the fall for the first time.
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    She thinks there's no reason I can't get his homeschool work done while my nieces "play quietly with the toddler" but I know my nieces and they are
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    never calm or quiet. Also, we spend at least 2-3 hours a day on week days on our school work, and sometimes have field trips or appointments to go to as well.
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    Not to mention I do the bookkeeping for my husband's business so that does take up a small part of every weekday too. I've explained this all to her, but
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    she thinks I'm making excuses and is angry at me. AITAH? I'm trying to do what is best for own kids right now but she's making me feel like an awful sister and aunt. my
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    SecretaryPresent16 She's not entitled to your babysitting services. I mean it's always nice to help family, but she's asking you
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    for a pretty but commitment for the whole summer when you have kids of your own and other responsibilities,
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    and plans to continue to homeschooling until the fall. ΝΤΑ
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    True-Presentation 726 Yes, you have to babysit so she saves money/s. She doesn't seem to care that it would not work for you. She
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    appears to only care about her own wants and needs. Don't do it. Keep your priority to your own children and yourself. Good luck. NTA.
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