Siblings Babysitting Siblings
Do you find that you have one daughter or son who is always taking care of the other child? Do you have an older son or daughter who is ultimately responsible for the care of their younger sibling? If so, it’s time for you to have a reality check on a thing or two. First and foremost, the person who is watching the child most, nurturing the child more than you are, is indeed, another child who you are likely neglecting along with the other child. Why did you bother having children if you aren’t going to take care of them? This article may bother a few of you reading today, but if it does, then there’s a reason it does.
Siblings didn’t have a choice in the matter of whether or not a little brother or sister was brought into this world. They had no part in the decision and ultimately, didn’t ask for their own entrance into this world either. However, nonetheless they are both here and you are doing what you can to avoid your responsibilities of parenthood if you have one sibling ultimately in charge of caring for the other.
This is not the fifties after all. Children aren’t supposed to rush home from school and throw together dinner only after doing the laundry and making certain everything is in order before mom and dad come home from work. They aren’t supposed to baby-sit twenty four seven either. If you chose to give birth to a child, then it is your ultimate responsibility to care for the child until they are at least eighteen years of age. Unfortunately, this generation is reverting back to the methods of the fifties and sixties and expecting the children to raise the children for a lack of something better. Believe it or not, many children are raising their irresponsible parents too.
Child care costs are pricy and often working moms and dads have no choice but to make one child responsible for the other ones for a couple of hours after school. However, news flash parents, when you walk through the door, the responsible child needs a break, they’ve had a long day too!
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