Mom of a 4-month-old refuses to babysit her 32-year-old sister's 2-year-old, even though she's a stay-at-home mom: 'Normally, our mom watches my niece while my sister works.'

She needs to hire a babysitter or take her kid to daycare, because her sister is the mom of a newborn, and can't handle looking after a 2-year-old who cries all the time and wakes the baby up.Some kids are a joy to babysit, and others are an absolute nightmare. If a parent constantly has to beg everyone in their family to babysit their kids, chances are it's not because everyone in the family is heartless and doesn't want to help out. It's much more likely that the kid is not particularly pleasant to babysit, and if that's the case, there's a good chance their parents aren't a joy either. Good parents can raise badly behaved kids, especially when they're toddlers. Toddlers are often mean and nasty, but if a child continues to misbehave like a toddler by the time he's 6 or 7, there's a better chance that his bad behavior stems from the kind of parenting he's receiving at home. Most family members and friends would babysit a kid they didn't particularly care for if there was an actual emergency and their parents couldn't watch them. But that depends on someone's definition of "emergency." If a parent doesn't want to pay a babysitter because they're too cheap and want their family to watch their badly behaved kid for free, that is not an emergency. The little girl in this story is not a bad kid, at least not yet. She is still in the "Terrible Twos" and cannot regulate her emotions. Unfortunately, that doesn't pair well with her newborn cousin, who is distressed by the sounds of screaming and crying.