AITAH for wanting to teach my sister
My sister, who turned 10 on Monday, has been the reason i’m regretting ( I saved up for it ) I’ve been spending half of my check on an iPad. She promised me she’d make good grades and learn how to do things on her own. Honestly, I regret it so much. We’re financially struggling. My mom and I work full-time at a fast food restaurant, and most of her life, she’s been spoiled by my grandparents. She needs us to do everything for her. She won’t even get in the shower without us begging her, and sometimes, she just does it halfway to get it over with.
I’m trying to teach her common sense, help her with her studies, and learn the things I wish I knew in life. I’m trying to teach her how to brush her hair, but she already doesn’t want to. I show her how to do it, show her a video, and give her multiple physical tutorials, but she throws things, cries, and refuses. I told her she won’t get her iPad or technology if she doesn’t calm down and do it the right way. I’m so tired. I refuse to take care of a child who gets the easy way out. My mom doesn’t want to deal with it either, so she just gives in and gives her what she wants, even though she doesn’t do her homework and cheats at school.
I’m an adult, and my mom and I live with my grandparents. I’m ready to leave. I’m not my sister’s mother, and she won’t make it the way my mom is going. I don’t care how tired my mom is I am tired too. That’s her child, and she’s not parenting like she should. the bottom line is I wasted my money on a child who gets everything she wants no matter, what I felt bad because she did not get a good birthday like all the other years before my grandparents had retired. The iPad is for the after you do your chores and do your homework not in place of that time and I messed up.