{"id":3246,"date":"2025-09-05T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:37:51","slug":"my-stepmom-refused-to-babysit-my-kids-so-i-banned-her-from-my-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"My Stepmom Refused to Babysit My Kids So I Banned Her From My Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a small wedding and couldn\u2019t afford a babysitter, so I asked my stepmom if she could stay home and watch my 8-month-old twins. She got upset and said, \u201cI\u2019m not your servant!\u201d I replied, \u201cThen don\u2019t come.\u201d Since I had no other choice, I hired a young sitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the day of the wedding, she didn\u2019t show up, just as expected. But right before I walked down the aisle, my dad got a call and looked really worried. Then I got a call from my neighbor, who said my stepmom had gone to my house, yelled at the babysitter, and taken my twins. She put them in her car and drove off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dad later told me the babies were safe with him. My stepmom said she was \u201cjust doing what I asked,\u201d but it felt more like she wanted to make a scene and ruin my day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never meant to treat her like a servant. I just trusted her to help. But she clearly didn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was I wrong?<br>\u2014 Taylor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi Taylor! Thank you for sharing your story. Here are some tips that can help you navigate through this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a small wedding and couldn\u2019t afford a babysitter, so I asked my stepmom if she could stay home and watch my 8-month-old twins. She got&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":412,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}