I currently live two hours away from my family, and my dad’s birthday is this coming week. I don’t come home a lot, since I’m busy with school and work. I planned weeks in advance to come back this weekend before his birthday to see him and spend time with my family. I drove back Friday (yesterday) right before noon, and I went to visit my sister and her kids that evening. She asked me to take care of her two kids (8 and 2 years old) Saturday night (tonight). I, being a barely surviving college student, asked if she would pay me. She said she would, she would give me forty dollars. Keep in mind, this would mean bringing her kids come over around 6pm, and she would have them stay overnight, picking them up in the morning. I told her that I would think about it, not saying yes or no.Now, today she was talking to my mom about her plans for the evening and she mentioned that I was going to be taking care of them. I asked her if she would pay me sixty, and she got upset. She got mad and I told her that if she was going to have them stay the full night then I wanted at least sixty. She started to cry, and my mom got upset as well.

I personally don’t think I was unreasonable, even if she is my sister. She doesn’t use babysitters or a babysitting service, only relying on family to take care of them. I take care of them almost every single time I come back to visit. I am currently working with a babysitting service which charges upwards of $10/hour, but I wasn’t going to make her pay $1/hour, but I wanted something reasonable.

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