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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does everyone keep yammering on about the 15 year old babysitting? The kids' parents are right there, there's no need for anyone to babysit. That wasn't what OP was expecting. [/quote]

I call total BS on this. I was this teen. My nieces are these teens now. They don’t want to babysit. They’d rather hang out on their phones (in my case it would have been with my book because I’m old and there were barely cell phones when I was a teen) or watch the kids’ movie. But if they’re there with the younger kids, even doing their own thing, they are implicitly expected to be babysitting. You can say they’re not, but the reality is that when the younger kids decide to bathe the cat or paint the walls or do flips off the rocking chair or smear frosting into the couch (all real examples), the teen is expected to intervene. The only way to not be expected to be in charge is to stick by the adults. My nieces do this now; I did this long long ago; it sounds like this 15 year old has also figured that out.[/quote]

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