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[quote=Anonymous]Oh OP, I hear you.  My SIL is the master of this.  She has one kid, and is a single mom, so my DH and I really don't mind helping out with her DD when we go on vacation and the like.  But she will 100% CHECK OUT and just assume we'll take care of her kid for her.  Then she doesn't acknowledge it or say thank you.  If we refuse, the kid is the one who misses out.  I've gotten a lot less tolerant of it once I had my own kid to take care of.  But it still sucks that she's so freaking selfish.

The only way I really deal with it is by trying to not go on vacation with her.  There's one trip we can't really get out of that I go on, but every year there is a fight about something because she is so irresponsible.  I try to make that one trip no more than 3 days because at the end of three days I am usually getting ready to wring her neck.

All that is to say, you really have no choice here OP.  If you decide to be purposefully negligent to teach your cousin or sister a lesson, you will never be able to forgive yourself if something bad happens.  Your sister and your cousin are takers.  They most likely always will be.  Any attempt to get them to see the dynamic will result in them telling you that they one time sat outside and watched the kids and what are you talking about?  Your only choice is to NOT go on vacation with them.  Which sucks.  But yeah, they suck.[/quote]

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