Internet supports woman who called her son 'cruel' for mistreating his younger sisters
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: Parenting a teenager is never easy and it feels even more exhausting when your teenager starts acting weirdly after doing something wrong. The same happened with a mother, who called her teenage son "cruel" after he broke her rules and behaved unkindly while babysitting his two younger sisters. The woman, who goes by the username u/tthrowaway16, explained that she has three 3 children, a 15-year-old son, and eight-year-old twins.
“They all get along well and my son loves his sisters and vice versa. Sometimes my husband and I have to go to certain events and I ask my son if he can watch his sisters for the night. He usually says yes unless he has plans (I just ask my mom then). So on Friday night, we had an event to go to and I again asked my son if he’d be willing to babysit. He said sure and that was it,” she wrote on Reddit’s 'AITA' forum. She said that said she and her husband returned home around midnight and found one of their twins throwing up badly while the other was crying inconsolably.
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“I was surprised but I also didn’t really blame my son in any way. They weren’t really making any noise and were clearly asleep before all hell broke loose,” she wrote. Once things settled, the twins said that “their big brother was really mean and grumpy all day and when they asked for food he gave them a jar of peanut butter,” adding that her daughters were not allowed to eat peanut butter as it made them sick and her son knew this very well.
'I don’t know if I can trust him'
“I woke him up the next morning and asked him if all this was true. He just made a noise and was all like “the little snitches... yeah so they had a little peanut butter what’s the big deal? I told him that he knows they can’t have it and not only that but I also don’t like how they described his attitude. Especially when he told them they had to eat it,” the woman continued. Instead of admitting his mistake, the teenager acted weirdly and asked her to stop overthinking, claiming he forgot peanut butter made the twins sick.
"He only said they had to eat it because he didn’t want them going hungry, he didn’t feel like ordering, cooking or warming up leftovers either, and also the twins were being annoying. I told him that these excuses are not good enough and that what he did was honestly kind of cruel. I told him that I don’t know if I can trust him with the girls anymore as well,” the mother further wrote in the post, adding, "He’s really upset with me and every time me or his dad say anything, he’ll just reply with 'oh I thought I was cruel? I thought you couldn’t trust me?'"
'He is clearly unreliable'
The woman's post has since garnered immense social media attention, with many supporting her decision. “NTA If this had been someone other than your son, I'd be calling it abuse and assault. Certainly negligent. He is clearly unreliable and I'd be very upset. The fact you let your son talk to you in such a manner is alarming as well,” a user said.
“NTA. He needs a therapist. Cruelty without remorse isn't normal. Possible guesses- he's been through a recent trauma, he has a new addiction, he has executive dysfunction, and is lying to cover up for it. That last one's a little out there, granted, but I mention it jic,” a second user added. The third user wrote “NTA- ah your son is hitting that teenage phase where he's just arbitrarily being an asshole. No, what he did WAS cruel, and honestly, a little punishment should be in order. If he's taken care of his sisters before and KNOWS how to do so responsibly, then he was absolutely out of line forcing them to eat something that would make them sick."
“You’re NTA but honestly at 8 the twins can heat up leftovers. This is the time to teach them stuff like this. It’s a good learning moment to go through basic kitchen stuff like hey, don’t shove metal in the toaster or microwave, don’t touch the knives or stove and if you need to heat something up you do XYZ. Your son though at minimum should have rung you to organize take out,” another user replied.
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