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[quote=Anonymous]My sister has a 1,3, and 6 year old. She has leaned hard into her career since becoming a mom and never sees her children in the mornings during the week because she gets up early to go to the gym to work out and start her work day ahead of her colleagues. Their dad takes the kids to before care where they get breakfast. The kids are all in before care and after care. She usually sees them at night when she does pick up and dinner, but at least 1-2 times a week she goes out and dad or a babysitter watches the kids. Sometimes it is work events, more often it is girl’s dinners or date nights. On these days (about 1-2 times a week) she literally does not see her kids at all for the entire day, and the next day does not see them until the evening when she is picking them up from aftercare. She and her husband also regularly trade weekends away, and she minimizes her kids illnesses and injuries, sending them to daycare with Tylenol if they have a fever, etc. It bothers me, especially because she will make disparaging comments about me because I have leaned back in my career and prioritized my schedule to give my kids as much time at home with us as possible. And I find it hard to prioritize time for myself to work out or have time with friends. Sometimes she will say something mean to her kids or my kids when they get hurt or are crying, like “you’re just trying to get attention.” On social media she constantly posts all the things that she does with the kids, even though she’s hardly ever around and doesn’t act very lovingly toward them. It bothers me a lot that she’s like this, but I don’t feel like it’s my place to say anything. What would you do in this situation? [/quote]

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