u/ItsJustJosiah

TL;DR: After Dog sitting for almost a month, Watching my cousin and brother together, and now having to dog sit again i am burned out so i asked my sister to watch my brother and all she did was make him miserable.
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19M, I’ll do almost anything for money if someone asks. That’s just the kind of man i am. Sorry for word vomit, I am upset.

Last month I was watching my stepdads dogs for money, they weren’t hard to watch but one of them was extremely energetic. Immediately after that was done my little brother was coming back home after being with my aunt for almost a year since my mom was overseas and I was in college (graduated yay). It actually inter lapped for a few days.

In exchange for this favor she wanted my mom to watch my cousin, she then offered me money to watch both if them and I said sure because I didn’t want her stressed. I really want to take the burden off my mom so I started helping more.

To be clear my brother isn’t the issue, he’s 6 and my cousin is 10. My brother is extremely well behaved nowadays and I genuinely have fun with him. It was my cousin that burned me out because he was jealous of him and wanted to hang out with me by himself. So he’d get into fights with him and I have to handle it. My cousin was sneaking around the house and at one point he broke his own phone by slamming it on the floor because he was mad at my brother. It was so stupid but thats for another day. Luckily I didn’t get blamed.

The best system I had was letting the cousin play the PS5 by himself while my brother and mom were out, and however long he played alone is roughly how long my brother plays with me.

If they play together and argue they are both off for 10 minutes and it doubles every time, the most they got to was 20 minutes. It was a lot but my mom said i was doing great and gave me a lot of money out of it.

Now I have to dog sit on the 8th for a total of $140 that my sister arranged. This isn’t normal of her but she wanted me to get some extra money.

The second my cousin left, I played with my brother to pass the time and i noticed I was weirdly annoyed at everything he did. Even though he was well behaved, I noticed this was probably was because I burnt myself out.

So I asked my sister (20) to watch him for one day until 9AM -> 2PM, that’s when i’ll take over. I almost never ask her specifically for favors but I was tired, she hasn’t helped with anything since she been back from college so i know she wasn’t busy. She didn’t want to at first but i got her to agree. To be clear, I’m not upset she wasn’t helping while i was watching the boys, that’s my decision. I am upset she hasn’t done anything at all but cause arguments.

If I am too busy to watch him, for example if I am cleaning. I ask him to play in his room where i can keep an eye on him with the baby monitor. Then I play with him when I’m done. She just stayed in her room and let him run around unsupervised.

While I was asleep my mom asked me to make hotdogs for my brother, I was confused because my sister was watching him. What I find funny is i found out later my 6 year old brother upon finding out my sister was cooking said “Oh no”. He has never said that before lmfao. That’s why my mom asked me before she cooked for him.

She boiled the hotdog and was struggling to even do that. She also wasn’t even watching him as he was in our moms room and didn’t want to be around her because she was yelling. She can’t cook, she either burns it or it’s really bad.

For comparison, I made Hotdogs cooked on the flat stove with toasted bread and sautéed broccoli for my cousin, brother, and Mom. I wasn’t expecting the boys to eat the broccoli but it was the first thing they finished and they asked me to cook for them more in the future, even my mom killed the food. It’s the same food and two completely different reactions, he probably didn’t even get a side.

I am extremely embarrassed and upset my brother had to go through that, I didn’t think it would be this bad. I thought it would be quick but my bro was miserable.

Edit: My mother did know about the deal with my sister beforehand, my sister was just so unhelpful that she forgot she was even watching him.

I want a complete clean slate.