Today, despite the fact that I'm really sick, my mom insisted that I come home and help babysit my cousins this weekend. When I got there, everyone else took off to do "errands," leaving me with three hyperactive, howler monkey-like children to deal with. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, all I wanted was to take my two kids and their two favourite cousins to the beach on their last day of vacation together. My mother-in-law went into full beast mode, shouting about how I'm always roaming around and being irresponsible. The kids never meet and are from different cities. FML
Today, after my family left me at home for the weekend before finals while they went on vacation so I could focus on my studies, I spent the weekend watching my little cousins for no pay. It wasn’t an easy babysitting job either. I had to pay attention to and then re-enact basically every Bluey episode ever to exist, with no time to study. FML
Today, I realized the only reason I was invited to go on vacation with my extended family was so I could babysit everyone's children while the adults go out and have fun. FML
Today, I went over to confront my parents about how my siblings always get to visit and all I do when I’m over is work on their house or take care of grandma. My mom was very upset. Then she snuck out with my sister, leaving me to take care of grandma until she got back. FML
Today, I babysat the most annoying and obnoxious kids for almost eight hours, when the parents assured me that they would only be gone about three or so hours. After constant calling and worrying, they finally showed up at 11:30, completely drunk. The mother paid me with three dollars and a banana. FML
Today, I asked my parents to babysit my kids for an hour so that I could visit the doctor for my asthma, which has worsened over the past two days. Apparently I'm a bad mother, and it's OK if I stop breathing, but shouldn't leave my kids to go out alone. My husband was at the gym the entire evening. FML
Today, I had a babysitting job. When I got there, the parents were rushing out the door and told me they'd left instructions for the kids on the table. The first bullet point stated that the oldest was convinced she is possessed by the devil, but just to ignore it. Three more hours to go. FML
Today, I'm babysitting three children under the age of seven. They have no discipline, don't listen, scream all the time, won't nap, terrorize my dog, and have peed their pants a collective 5 times today. I am not getting paid for this. Their mother has no plans to come get them any time soon. FML
Today, I babysat the neighbors’ evil kids. They dropped them over at my house and I played with them for five hours. After taking the brats back home and putting them to bed, their mother asked me what time I came back to the house. She only paid me for the 20 minutes I was in their house. FML
Today, my mom tried to force me to stay home from work to babysit my sister and her “boyfriend”. I snuck out and went to work anyway, because I hate being around them. FML
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emily_choxly 0
Fall asleep and have them mess up the whole house and wait until your parents get home and just say "I told you I wasn't feeling good"
erockinthesuburb 17
Quick, get some bananas!
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Comments (70)
tomtato 10
come on, as least they don't go woo woo woo. look on the bright side, parenting 101 in advance :)
Objectofdespair 1
My parents are just like that. I was having a severe and life threatening asthma attack and my dad told me to stop weeing and coughing or he would really give me something to complain about.
trollierthanthou 1
the ppl that left you with the kids are obvious asses. I mean, they do not care if their kids get sick, and don't care if you are too sick to even function. So cough on the kids, give them a bag of sugar and a spoon, take some nyquil and a shot of whiskey and go to bed. When they come home to see an empty bag of sugar claim you blacked out because you were so sick and they must have gotten it when you were out of it. just keep on keepin' on.
bleddyn13 1
Should have left right behind them...
xccx18 0
My parents do that to me all the time. "oh we'll be right back" four hours and everything's broken later...
Cassandrax731 5
I feel your pain, OP! I usually get stuck babysitting my brother and 2 cousins who are all the same age. And they're always howler-monkey-like when they're together. So my advice is to make them play a video game; it'll keep them occupied!
BlAzEtHiS 0
Call DSS our Child Protective Services. That abandonment.
friedbunnies 9
NyQuil for everyone. Double shots for the big one.
Auric 9
Your tone suggests that you didn't finally murder them in desperation. One up over natural parents!
heza1459 0
I feel your pain. I found out that I have strep throat on top of an ear infection and my mom made me watch 2 little kids while I cleaned the entire house :(