Lunatic Mom Insists Her Neighbor Must Babysit Her Kid, Goes Livid When She Sends Her Son There And The Neighbor Is Not Home
As if getting along with your neighbors wasn’t enough of a challenge already, some next-door residents take the craziness to a whole new level. Especially if that includes dealing with not just entitled, but a very entitled parent.
All this and more happened to one work-from-home mom of two boys, age 5 and 10. In a viral post on r/EntitledParents, the author shared how years ago, “this new neighbor of mine kept trying for the better part of a summer to use me as a free babysitter.” It turned out, the lady kept dropping off her 7-year-old at the author’s door in the early mornings. Even after telling her a solid “Stop sending your kid over, I am NOT a baby-sitter!” the senseless behavior continued, pushing the author to the brink of insanity.
So let’s see how this neighbor drama progressed in the full story below, which will make you want to hug your neighbors, however loud their music may be, because now you know… it could be worse. Worse times infinity.
Entitled mom keeps dropping her son off at neighbor’s house for unsolicited babysitting, sparks crazy neighbor drama
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And this is what people commented on the whole situation
The best way to handle this would have been to call the police and say "I have a lost child who has been abandoned by his mother. Can you some find out who he belongs to?" And if the neighbor protests...let her know your next call will be to child protective services to report her for child abandonment.
that's the only right way. Be sure to have a video where she leaves the child unattended on your door
You could do that now, but the story says this was back in the days of landlines, not cell phones, so I don't know how feasible porch videos were back then.
@ NG They had these things called VHS camera's. Bulkier and kind of grainy, but with the same effect. My parents were making home movies of my older siblings back in 1963. Camera's weren't such a new thing. Haven't you seen Super 8?
Could they have been used as security cameras? I'm not sure how else you'd get spontaneous video footage of the lunatic dropping her son off.
You don't have to get footage of her dropping him off, only video of the child being abandoned and alone. If you can get the kid to say why...added plus.
I think you fail to realize how cumbersome those cameras were. There was no bluetooth or even USB - even if you had the battery charged (for a device you rarely used) and had a blank tape on hand, the proprietary methods for doing anything with that video were VERY cumbersome.
She very very early on that the timeline was when only corded phones were around video was space age stuff and neighbors gossip about everything
Excellent response. That woman is cuckoo.
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Yes, absolutely, but it might be difficult to do since there is a small child involved.
Some people are literally living carpets who let people just walk all over them. This woman doing absolutely everything to protect the crazy woman from herself by not calling the cops on her that first day is just too much.
Perhaps she was concerned about the child?
That's a good reason to do it 1 or 2 times MAYBE, but after that it's in the child's best interest to call CPS/police for exactly what happened: On the occasion the "babysitter" wasn't there, what did the mother do? Straight up abandon the kid, found 3 hours later outside, scared and hungry. This s**t will happen again. CPS can be a rough situation for a lot of kids, but worst case they will investigate and find the mother at fault only, and probably put the kid with relatives unless they divorce. EDIT: Not trying to badger this woman. As she said, she's more assertive now than she was when this happened. I hope others can learn from her experience that being meek and modest is refreshing and respectable, but sometimes it's necessary to stand up out of your comfort zone for the sake of others.
The child already carried the weight of his mother's decision. He knew what was going on, knew the possibility of being abandoned and knew his mother didn't care. Kids know. Why would his mother listen to the police? What are you expecting the police to do? The mother's reaction to police intervention would come down on the writer. Again it ends up on the kid. The solution, research the outcome of each possible solution. Choose carefully, but pick one. There isn't one solution. The abusive phone call, put the phone down and walk away.
Does it seem like the poor child is safe with that lunatic for a mother?
Good point, but there even worse possibilities.
They literally said that too.
Makes sense
She literally says in the post that she was concerned for the child's well being and that's why she didn't report it.
That is the most important reason to report. The child was not safe with his mother, who kept abandoning him. When a child is being endangered, you need to call the police immediately.
Nobody wants to leave a 7 year old alone all day long.
Seriously? The story makes the woman sound pretty crazy but there were like 5 easy solutions for this on the second time she did it. Some random man calls up and yells at you? You get the police involved pronto.
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The police doesn't do anything
The best way to handle this would have been to call the police and say "I have a lost child who has been abandoned by his mother. Can you some find out who he belongs to?" And if the neighbor protests...let her know your next call will be to child protective services to report her for child abandonment.
that's the only right way. Be sure to have a video where she leaves the child unattended on your door
You could do that now, but the story says this was back in the days of landlines, not cell phones, so I don't know how feasible porch videos were back then.
@ NG They had these things called VHS camera's. Bulkier and kind of grainy, but with the same effect. My parents were making home movies of my older siblings back in 1963. Camera's weren't such a new thing. Haven't you seen Super 8?
Could they have been used as security cameras? I'm not sure how else you'd get spontaneous video footage of the lunatic dropping her son off.
You don't have to get footage of her dropping him off, only video of the child being abandoned and alone. If you can get the kid to say why...added plus.
I think you fail to realize how cumbersome those cameras were. There was no bluetooth or even USB - even if you had the battery charged (for a device you rarely used) and had a blank tape on hand, the proprietary methods for doing anything with that video were VERY cumbersome.
She very very early on that the timeline was when only corded phones were around video was space age stuff and neighbors gossip about everything
Excellent response. That woman is cuckoo.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Yes, absolutely, but it might be difficult to do since there is a small child involved.
Some people are literally living carpets who let people just walk all over them. This woman doing absolutely everything to protect the crazy woman from herself by not calling the cops on her that first day is just too much.
Perhaps she was concerned about the child?
That's a good reason to do it 1 or 2 times MAYBE, but after that it's in the child's best interest to call CPS/police for exactly what happened: On the occasion the "babysitter" wasn't there, what did the mother do? Straight up abandon the kid, found 3 hours later outside, scared and hungry. This s**t will happen again. CPS can be a rough situation for a lot of kids, but worst case they will investigate and find the mother at fault only, and probably put the kid with relatives unless they divorce. EDIT: Not trying to badger this woman. As she said, she's more assertive now than she was when this happened. I hope others can learn from her experience that being meek and modest is refreshing and respectable, but sometimes it's necessary to stand up out of your comfort zone for the sake of others.
The child already carried the weight of his mother's decision. He knew what was going on, knew the possibility of being abandoned and knew his mother didn't care. Kids know. Why would his mother listen to the police? What are you expecting the police to do? The mother's reaction to police intervention would come down on the writer. Again it ends up on the kid. The solution, research the outcome of each possible solution. Choose carefully, but pick one. There isn't one solution. The abusive phone call, put the phone down and walk away.
Does it seem like the poor child is safe with that lunatic for a mother?
Good point, but there even worse possibilities.
They literally said that too.
Makes sense
She literally says in the post that she was concerned for the child's well being and that's why she didn't report it.
That is the most important reason to report. The child was not safe with his mother, who kept abandoning him. When a child is being endangered, you need to call the police immediately.
Nobody wants to leave a 7 year old alone all day long.
Seriously? The story makes the woman sound pretty crazy but there were like 5 easy solutions for this on the second time she did it. Some random man calls up and yells at you? You get the police involved pronto.
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The police doesn't do anything