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My mom and my sister expect me to be free childcare and put my life aside for her kids.
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People often mistake proximity for obligation and call it tradition. Emergencies become permanent policies when the most responsible person happens to be available, and “available” gets redefined as “not currently performing unpaid labor.”
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Help is a gift, help on a timetable is a job, and jobs come with compensation and consent. A one‑day gap is a logistics problem for the parents, not a life sentence for a sibling who just scraped together a future. The fixes are simple and boring. Say yes to work that grows the career and no to schedules that shrink a life. Offer occasional babysitting on terms that are written, limited, and paid, or do not offer it at all. If family culture demands sacrifice, match it with transparency. State the hours available, the rate, the dates, and the end date. Decline anything else without apology. Love is not measured in forfeited income or canceled rest days. Boundaries protect generosity from being converted into infrastructure. The kids deserve stability. That starts with their parents, not their aunt’s one free weekday.
23-year-old refuses to surrender her only day off for free childcare for her sister’s 3 kids, despite her mom and golden-child sister’s demands: ‘My mom has always put my sister as the "highest priority"’
A golden child burns down her own life and somehow the smoke alarm goes off in her sister's apartment. The family math is elegant in its cruelty. Sister gets crowned for grades, drops out for a boyfriend, cheats her way into three kids and no plan, and the solution is apparently the history major with a new job who once got told she was the lesser daughter. Free childcare is requested, then assumed, then scheduled, then moralized. All in the name of family, which in practice means everyone else's choices roll downhill until they hit the youngest adult with boundaries still on backorder.
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