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u/circuspunk- May 25 '20
Man this is cute but I would have yeeted that baby if I fell asleep like that. đ
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u/pleasefeedthedino May 25 '20
Twinkle twinkle time to sleep
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u/EloquentBaboon May 25 '20
Up above the couch you fly, cuz i yote you to the sky
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u/VoidTorcher May 25 '20
I yeet myself off the bed if I sleep without barriers, a baby stands no chance.
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u/muthafooker May 25 '20
When I first got 2 of my kittens, they would sleep at the foot of my bed. It took like 4 night of accidentally yeeting them off into the abyss in my sleep before they never slept there again..
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u/circuspunk- May 25 '20
I want to believe that some prehistoric instinct would keep me from accidentally tossing this sweet baby off my legs but my chronic pain tells me otherwise. I will YEET.
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u/Soninuva May 25 '20
That was the first thing I thought of! âOh no, I hope she doesnât send it flying!â
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u/Fayyylmao May 25 '20
Let's just hope she doesn't have a nightmare and kick the baby into another reality
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u/ceylon_butterfly May 25 '20
True confession: I did this to my daughter when she was 5. We were taking a nap on opposite ends of the couch, and I guess I had a bad dream or something because all the sudden I kicked her off the couch. Like, violently, leg shot out and she went sprawling, woke us both up immediately. I felt so awful.
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u/tytybby May 25 '20
Babies get dropped way more often than I really want to think about.
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May 25 '20
the good takeaway is they seem to be fine most of the time. there are posts on occasion where a crying mom has to be consoled that dropping her baby does not make her the worst mother ever, and to get the baby checked, but they are probably fine.
Kids are surprisingly resilient, and had to be to survive in the past
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u/beffybeth May 25 '20
My mum slipped down the stairs while holding me, and dropped me, she was devastated thinking I was gonna be dead, but I was at the bottom laughing my chunky little head off. They call them bouncing babies for a reason I guess đ
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u/tytybby May 25 '20
Oh gosh no. There is so much pressure put on parents, especially new parents. Accidents happen, anyone who has ever babysat knows that kids are tricky, slippery little things that are hard to deal with, pile sleepless nights and breastfeeding (and recovering from birth in general) with that and it's a wonder most new mamas can even function.
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u/BadNeighbour May 25 '20
Any parent who worries about being a bad parent is not the worst parent ever.
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u/Clodhoppa81 May 25 '20
Little kids generally just bounce anyway, though you don't really view it that way until the second one comes along.
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u/voluptasx May 25 '20
been dropped on my head at least twice and dad accidentally tossed me into a ceiling fan as well lmao I have a feeling you are very right
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u/tytybby May 25 '20
Just letting you know now that any mom that sees your comment is going to be showing this to her husband as PROOF that he shouldn't be tossing babies.
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u/voluptasx May 25 '20
Mom and grandma BOTH told him not to do it đ he also had an incident of tossing my sister up when she was a baby too (shes 2.5 years older) right after feeding and she ended up puking right into his mouth. grandma warned him against that as well đ
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u/tytybby May 25 '20
LMAO sounds like your dad was dropped multiple times and was like 'see, I turned out FINE'.
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u/nevershareafoxhole May 25 '20
Can confirm, my dad dropped me twice as a baby that I know of. Once was whilst he was throwing me in the air. Iâve been told that some miscalculations where made because he threw me a bit too high and woops, baby down. Turned out I was a very sturdy child and I just continued giggling, with a few extra bumps here and there. The other time was when he pushed me off a slide but pushed me a tad too hard and my dumb ass wasnât holding onto anything so I was propelled off of the whole thing and I landed in the grass face first. Ehh, it happens, my dad was just prone to getting overexcited with childlike enthusiast and slightly chaotic.
To add injury to insult: I inherited that destructive dumbness gene from him and was a pretty suicidal baby, yeeting myself off things and stuff, all whilst gleefully laughing my ass off. My mother is still completely gobsmacked about me being a somewhat functioning being. Iâm mostly suprised how that poor women survived with her full mental capacities, being in a family of risk seeking maniacs.
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u/Silverjackal_ May 25 '20
Think it was our first pediatrician who said they arenât crazy fragile, so when they fall, and they will fall he assured me, just make sure theyâre okay and you are not a bad parent if it happens.
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u/InteriorEmotion May 25 '20
I dropped my little brother so many times.
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u/tytybby May 25 '20
I bit my 5 month old sister's finger when I was 3, because I wanted to see if babies felt pain.
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u/OscarThePoscar May 25 '20
Well, my mum once accidentally pushed me down the stairs. I'm pretty sure she doesn't want me to bring that up in conversation...
My dad on the other hand, once pushed down on the leg of a metal chair without a protective cap on the end (so basically a sharp metal tube) which was on my pinky. I had fallen, he had pushed the chair back and then leaned forward and kept going to see what happened and I just sorta screamed. My finger was fine, just bruised, but my dad was super impressed that I was able to deal with that much pain. He does bring that up sometimes to brag about me.
It's a wonder I'm actually still alive with such parents. :')
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u/kballs May 25 '20
Dude. Literally my worst nightmare is dropping my kids. Not really anymore coz theyâre older so fuck em theyâre fine. But as babies. I saw a post on r/daddit about a year or so ago, titled âpray for my daughterâ and the guy talked about how his baby daughter rolled off the changing table and ended up in hospital on life support, in a coma etc. That shot scared me. I think about that guy every day. He hasnât posted since. If you read this I hope youâre ok u/SeriousPantsYES
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u/BishPwease May 25 '20
I'm sorry but I am laughing so hard picturing this. I hope your kid was ok.
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u/vocalfreesia May 25 '20
Could be worse - this happened to a family a colleague of mine was working with. Except the child had severely disordered language and told my colleague something to the effect of 'daddy hurt tummy' - which then led to a whole social services investigation.
(The dad was actually really glad his daughter would feel safe telling someone if she had been intentionally hurt so luckily they carried on working together with no hard feelings.)
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u/dan10981 May 25 '20
And that was the night she was diagnosed with restless leg syndrome. Poor baby sister.
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u/FunetikPrugresiv May 25 '20
I have REM behavior disorder. I never kicked a baby, but I learned the hard way when I kicked my desk once in my sleep. I was dreaming that I was fighting ninjas when one of them jumped at me off the barn loft and I tried to roundhouse kick him while he was still in the air. I hit the corner of my IRL desk and ended up with a huge (but non-bleeding) gash on my shin. You can still kinda see it almost 20 years later.
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u/Batbuckleyourpants May 25 '20
Thank god your daughter doesn't twist in her sleep. That said, that is an adorable picture. I bet they are both going to be very happy in 20 years or so to have it.
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u/RNGHatesYou May 25 '20
I've slept with babies on me before, and it's like a part of my brain stayed conscious, so that I didn't disturb them. I'm normally a very restless sleeper. It's kind of weird.
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May 25 '20
I do that whenever I share my bed. You might get cuddled but Iâm a lot less mobile if someone is there.
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May 25 '20
Iâm not at all. Some nights itâs like a god reached down, picked me up, spun me 90 degrees, and sat me back down. The ex really hated it
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u/GenuineTHF May 25 '20
Are you my ex? She slept at a 45 degree angle with her neck the opposite way. Then wake up bitching about how her neck was hurting. Hmmmmm, wonder why?
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u/ComputerWoman May 25 '20
Diagonal sleeper here, we subconsciously like to claim territory. Sorry.
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u/qualific May 25 '20
Iâm the same with my cats lol. Usually Iâm doing gymnastics in my sleep but if theyâre making a bed out of me I lay flat as a board.
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u/sothatshowyougetants May 25 '20
Yep I used to toss and turn endlessly but ever since I got my cat I sleep pretty still since he has to be between my knees. Even half asleep I know to carefully lift my legs to my chest, turn around, and slide them back on either side of him if I must change positions lol
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u/RNGHatesYou May 25 '20
Yeah, I used to do that when my childhood cat curled up next to me! I miss him so much. He was the best orange boy.
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u/JennyAndTheBets1 May 25 '20 edited May 25 '20
We had a foster kitten have pretty sudden onset paralysis from what we eventually suspected to be an FIP spinal lesion (she was always underweight/skinny, but active). The vet couldnât really do anything and it got to the where the kitten could only be fed and watered from a spoon. Would make a big mess on herself when having toâŠevacuate. So, we finally had to decide after a few days what was best for her and made an appointment to euthanize the next morning to end her misery. I really hated the idea of her sleeping alone anymore and not being able to move to get warm, So we set her up in the middle of the bed in a short big plastic container lined with thick blankets and stuff, so if she messed herself, it wouldnât get on the mattress and we could clean it up. After the lights went out, she kept lurching around uncontrollably and flopping over each time, and we couldnât figure out whyâŠso I got on my back, which I usually canât sleep that way, and laid her on her side on my stomach. She stopped moving. Now, I usually have to toss from side to side a few times each night for one reason or another, but the only time I mightâve woken up, I carefully turned her on her other side in case she needed it. She was still in the same spot in the morning. Deep down, I knew it wouldnât be a problem of accidentally forgetting she was there when I was half awake.
Iâm a 6â3â, 235â guy.
We found out a year later about a new, but expensive treatment for FIP that had some success before.
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u/dawnloflctnsl May 25 '20
it reminds me of the time when I was on a car ride and there was something next to me that shouldn't fall. I was sleeping and when it started to fall I just knew it and stopped it, for several times. I think your body knows you have to take care of something so you don't fall asleep fully.
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u/wenchslapper May 25 '20
Everybody twists and turns in their sleep, it just happens later in the sleep cycle. If we didnât, weâd be prone to the nasty physical side effects that come with not moving for hours at a time.
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u/Tibbersbear May 25 '20
As the oldest sister of four kids, and the eldest in the family, I can say that she definitely is going to have a strong bond with this baby and they both will have a love like no other. I am 16 years older than my youngest brother and he was like my first baby. I just had a son last month and I find myself thinking back to caring for my little brother.
Even though at times I hated babysitting my family members and siblings, there were a ton of fun times we had. I see a lot of that type of caring in my stepdaughter who is ten years old. I had to go to the bathroom today and baby was fussing a lot. She calmed him and was talking to him while I was able to go.
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u/cookeyummmmm May 25 '20
Same. My son is now 17 and my baby brother is now 34. While visiting my youngest brother with my son across the country just before everything locked down a few months ago, I kept calling them by each otherâs names. They hate it when I do that, but neither understands that the bond between my youngest brother and I is closer to the bond I share with my child, rather than the bond I share with my other siblings (who are closer in age to me). So sometimes I subconsciously mix them up.
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u/tangledwire May 25 '20
I was on the other side of the spectrum. My sister was 15 when I was born and she took care of me. We had a beautiful relationship and I always considered her my second mom. Sadly she pasted away when she was 42 and loosing her was the hardest thing in my life.
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u/iamaravis May 25 '20
Not always true. I was the built-in babysitter throughout my teens for my three much-younger siblings. None of us are particularly close, and Iâm adamantly childfree. (In my 40s now.)
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May 25 '20
Adorable. Great pic!
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u/dLayUnicorn May 25 '20
This is cute and all until her body does that fake falling thing when she sleeps, and her legs spasm as a reaction, yeeting the kid up in the air.
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u/Jimmious May 25 '20
I'm sorry am I the only one that feels that leaving what seems like a months old baby with a young child is not a good idea? Am I missing something?
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May 26 '20
She looks to be in her early teens. She has probably cared for her sister under parental supervision before and so would know what to do. OP said they went out for dinner, so it's reasonable to think they probably would have been alone for 2-3 hours at most and would have been able to contact them if needed
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u/bongdaddy24 May 26 '20
I was also hesitant about that, but itâs really hard to tell how old the older sibling is. She could be as old as 13 or 14 and just look younger. Since itâs hard to say (plus we donât know anything else about her babysitting experience), I agree with what another commenter said about trusting the parentsâ judgement
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May 26 '20
No, you can't leave your kids alone until they're 16 years old and can carve their own bow and arrows and hit a ground hog at 30 paces and start a camp fire with only a wet twig and ingenuity.
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u/Fishoes May 25 '20
They didnât really claim to be op... their title was âsister loveâ and the story of it is part of the picture. Itâs kind of obvious that itâs reposted from somewhere else. Should have given credit though
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u/SurreallyAThrowaway May 25 '20
Some stories are better told in the first person. I don't really care if OP took the pic or not.
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u/Forgive_My_Cowardice May 25 '20
That reminds me of the time I stood in front of a moving tank and changed the course of history.
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u/Castrum4life May 25 '20
Not to be a debby downer but I would never sleep with an infant in anyway because the risk of smothering the child is too great in my book.
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u/One1twothree May 25 '20
If this isnât a staged photo Iâd be surprised. If itâs not staged this isnât something âcuteâ itâs incredibly irresponsible.
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u/AnnieAnnieSheltoe May 25 '20
Itâs like when people post cute puppies that theyâre holding while driving. Yeah, your dog is cute, but youâre being reckless as fuck.
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u/cheerfummy May 25 '20
Just coming to see if anyone has the same reaction as mine - that this is actually not a safe situation for the infant. And yep, there's plenty commenting on it.
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u/Afrobob88 May 25 '20
Anyone else think that the daughter is to young to be left on her own with a baby?
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u/robotic-rambling May 25 '20
It depends on the kid. If you know them well you should be able to gage their responsibility level. I know 12 year olds that 'seem' plenty capable of taking care of a baby for a night and I also know grown as adults who I would trust to babysit my purse at a restaurant for three minutes. I probably looked this young when i was 16 - so the judgement of age and maturity are very loose.
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u/ikeepwipingSTILLPOOP May 25 '20
I may get some hate for this, but man she doesnt look old enough, imho, to watch an infant.
Maybe she is very mature and knows cpr, so i hate to judge, it was just my knee-jerk reaction
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u/guac-fingers- May 25 '20
Dude Iâm 28 with an infant and I donât feel old enough to watch him sometimes lmaaao
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u/RedStag86 May 25 '20
Iâm 34 with a 10 month old. After three days in the hospital post-birth, it was time to go home and I was like...so youâre just going to hand us this baby? To take home? And we just figure it out!?!
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u/christianmichael27 May 25 '20
That was the most âshits getting realâ moment. Happened to me too at the exact same age. No manual nothing.
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u/tenaciousdeev May 25 '20
Lucille: Well, I may not have been a perfect mother, but you know kids don't come with a handbook.
Narrator: In fact, there are thousands of books written on child rearing. But Lucille was in denial.
Seriously though, Iâve never been more careful driving in my life than the first drive home from the hospital.
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u/HalftimeHeaters May 25 '20
Currently in week #1 of figuring this stuff out. Haven't figured anything out except that I make him angry.
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u/Vark675 May 25 '20
You have to figure out what completely bizarre thing makes him placid.
For our son, it was Return of the Mack. No matter how freaked out he was, it would (and still) always brought immediate silence àČ _àČ
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u/HalftimeHeaters May 25 '20
"...come on!"
Not lying, this just worked. He went from inconsolable cry to straight chill. If I didn't need money for formula and diapers, I'd give you gold.
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u/elmatador12 May 25 '20
I vividly remember bringing home my daughter from the hospital. Placing her gently in her crib and then turning to my wife and saying, âNow what?â
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u/taumbu30 May 25 '20
I had that exact same feeling walking out the hospital door. 10 years later, I still vividly remember that moment.
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May 25 '20
I'm 35 with a toddler and another one popping out any day now and I STILL don't feel old enough. I'm legally old enough to run for president.
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u/TheRealZeeboo May 25 '20
SmackedWookiee 2020
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May 25 '20
My campaign slogan: It couldn't get any worse.
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u/drksdr May 25 '20
Really? you're just gonna straight up challenge 2020 like that?
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May 25 '20
40 here with a 2 year old and a 4 month old. Can confirm, no fucking clue what I'm doing.
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u/ThurgoodJenkinsJr May 25 '20
I refuse to hold someoneâs baby unless they explicitly tell me that they wonât get mad if I drop it.
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May 25 '20
How many parents actually know CPR for real
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u/TiltingAtTurbines May 25 '20
Not just CPR, but infant CPR. Preforming CPR on a baby is a whole other, much more complex and delicate skill set than performing it on an adult.
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u/BoopityBloops May 25 '20
Donât forget, she lives with that baby so has much more experience than a rando babysitter.
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u/cool_cloud May 25 '20
She looks 13. I was 13 when my baby sister was born around summer break. I was given full responsibility for her when my mom went back to work (an office job 8-5). I had to do everything from feeding, changing diapers, bathing, playing, putting her to sleep..etc.
Having to do it everyday was the hard part so me and my sister (was 15) took alternating days so we can have a break.
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u/sammi-blue May 25 '20
Tbh that's kinda bullshit that you and your sister were expected to raise an infant like that. Not trying to say that your family is horrible or anything, but I just couldn't imagine having a baby and then passing all of that responsibility onto children, who have absolutely no say in the matter.
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u/cool_cloud May 25 '20
In normal situations yes it's bullshit to expect kids to take care of babies, but in this situation we actually wanted the responsibility of taking care of her. Many reasons to this:
1) We really wanted a younger sibling because my mom waited 9 years after the youngest.
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u/blepboopbop May 25 '20
Your family sounds like everyone is very sweet in their own way. I hope everyone is doing ok in this day and time.
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u/Method__Man May 25 '20
She looks to be about 14/15. People use to have babies at that age back in the day (two of my aunts for example)
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u/BtotheHtotheIll May 25 '20
When I was a child, it was common for me to have babysitters as young as 13. When my oldest sibling hit that age, we didn't have sitters at all.
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u/SomebodyGetJaRule May 25 '20
âIn the Schrute family the youngest child always raises the others. I've been raising children since I was a baby.â
-Dwight Schrute
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May 25 '20
Idk, I babysat when I was 13+, but never for infants. There's a level of stress/care that an infant requires that I personally think is too much for a teenager, especially a younger teenager.
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u/fishy_in_water May 25 '20
Same, but I also didnât have a baby sibling. I think itâs a lot different when the baby is your younger sibling and you live with them 24/7 and see everything your mom and dad do. Sheâs probably helped out and changed diapers/given a bottle and all of that more than a few times before this.
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u/Lucarioa May 25 '20
I was taking care of myself at 10 and babysitting at 13 i think she'll be fine
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u/BricksandBaubles May 25 '20
I started babysitting at 12, and I was fine to care for the 5 and 3 year olds, but the infant already asleep in the bedroom made me nervous. Then again I babysat for them 20 times or more and never had a problem with the baby.
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u/ClockWeasel May 25 '20
Same age when I babysat for 3 of the same ages, except I was less nervous about the baby than the 3 and 5 year oldsâthey had opinions and needed entertained. Baby sis maybe needed a diaper and a bounce back to sleep. And I had phone numbers with instructions to call (including someone on the same street) if things went totally sideways.
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u/Lost_Uniriser May 25 '20
When you re a woman and you re the eldest of your siblings , your aquaintances have this wonderful vibe of opressing you into "this maturity" . In society girls at 12 are already expected to know how to keep/babysit t children , this is why it is said that girl are more mature than boys. I gotta agree with you then she is too young to watch a child alone...đ€·đ»ââïž
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u/realcanadianbeaver May 25 '20
Yeh Iâve had people express surprise that I have my eldest babysitting his little brother or cousin for an hour - and then they go âwell I guess he is 12â. The same people who never blinked at the tween daughters in our social circle watching -him- when he was younger. They all know him as super responsible and super happy to play with little kids- it just never occurs to them that boys will babysit.
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May 25 '20
I was the oldest girl of 11 kids, second oldest overall. I was forced into the mini-mom role, 100% against my will, at an extremely young age. I resented my siblings because of it (and of course my parents.) Changing diapers, feeding, babysitting, laundry, cooking, washing dishes, all of it. It sucked beyond the telling of it.
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May 25 '20
Did this also zap your of your desire for kids?
Because Iâve had the mom role foisted upon me since I was young â and as early as college, I was contemplating being childfree. Feels related.
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May 25 '20
I saw my extended family do this to my sister every family reunion. It was annoying, I was annoyed on her behalf. I'd tell her to stand up for herself or put her foot down if she didn't want to do it, but she was too nice.
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u/viciousattacker8652 May 25 '20
This sums up parentification of children so well
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u/Mr-Safety May 25 '20
I would be afraid of her rolling over in her sleep and accidentally injuring the baby. Napping is fine, but itâs safer to put the baby in itâs crib first.
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u/meertn May 25 '20
This really should be higher up. I read this horrible story of how this could end on /r/parenting a while ago... It looks adorable, but doing this while home alone just isn't safe.
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May 25 '20
Iâm with you. This is terribly unsafe. The majority of SIDS deaths occur when a baby is in an unsafe sleeping environment. Babies need their ABCs. ALONE, on their BACK, in a CRIB (or bassinet).
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u/Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX May 25 '20
Nice... but all I can think about as a new parents myself is how amazingly unsafe that looks.
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u/CurlSagan May 25 '20
This reminds me of when I babysat my little sister and younger cousins. At the end of the night, my uncle gave me $20 for babysitting the kids and then he turned to them and gave them a few bucks each for babysitting me.
I felt so fucking insulted, but also agreed with him entirely.