My sister keeps pulling this 'entitled' stunt at family gatherings

"Don't have kids if you're going to do this."

“Whenever my sister, Lynn, goes to any family event, she never watches her own kids and expects everyone else to, including my own children, who have complained about it,” a fed-up woman began her viral post that now has over 21k likes and over 1.5k comments. 

Apparently, her sister will just leave the room after dropping off her toddler, who the OP describes as a “wild animal.”

She continues, “I told my children (10 and 13) not to be duped into watching that brat at a recent gathering at my mum’s house. My 13-year-old daughter left the room when my sister left her alone with her kid to gossip with my mum. She just got up and left.”

Unsupervised, Lynn’s toddler ended up pulling all the food off the table by the tablecloth and spilling red pasta sauce all over the carpet. 

He began screaming, and Lynn realised what had happened and began yelling at her niece for leaving the room. 

But luckily, her mum came to her defence. 

“I told Lynn it was her responsibility to watch her own f**king kids,” the OP recalled. 

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"She should be smarter next time she thinks of having kids she can’t control or watch"

“Lynn said she thought my daughter was watching the ‘baby.’ I asked her, ‘Did you ask my daughter to?’ Lynn said she thought my daughter was smart enough to watch kids if they were alone with them. My daughter said maybe Lynn should be smarter next time she thinks of having kids that she can’t control or watch.”

While she admits her daughter's comments came across as rude, she still stands by what she said. However, no one else at the gathering backed the pair up, and they ended up having to leave after their mum got involved and also blamed the teen for leaving the room.

“My daughter said she wouldn’t be back until her grandmother and aunt respected her.

“My mum thinks I should punish or talk to my daughter and make her apologise, but I won’t. I don’t think my daughter did anything wrong, and it’s Lynn’s fault for not watching her own kid.”

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"Hire a babysitter if you can't keep track of your kids"

The top comment on the post, with 15k likes, supported the OP and said, “Honestly, at the age your kids are, I would say entirely NTA. Not only for how you are supporting them to express their feelings and needs but also not bend to the pressure. 

“Don't accept responsibility for things that are out of your control, and you haven't agreed to be your responsibility and teach your children the same (you seem to be doing an excellent job on that).”

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Another wrote: “NTA. Lynn should hire a babysitter if she can't keep track of her kids. Good on you for supporting your kids in this situation, I can see how in many families the responsibility could be rolled onto the shoulders of the older kids and force them to babysit just by default - which honestly isn't right.

"Parents need to be responsible for their own kids.”

A third wrote: “How did they think your daughter helped cause the mess? By not psychic-ly picking up on her aunt's responsibility hand-off? When my kids were that age, I NEVER left a room without being clear who I was asking to watch the kid and never took advantage of that.

"If you have a kid, they are YOUR responsibility. End of story.”

Finally, someone else made the point: “I really don’t like that it’s just assumed that a young girl is expected to be a babysitter. Would they do that with a boy? Probably not.”

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Originally published as My sister keeps pulling this 'entitled' stunt at family gatherings