23/04/2026
......To be continued in C0mments 👇
AITAH for not letting my mom watch my kids after my 3yr old ran away from her?
TL;DR AITAH for refusing to leave my kids at my mom's because my 3yr old ran away from her and got picked up 1/2 mile away by the police?
This is a long one, sry. For context, my wife and I have four kids, all under 10. My mom has a disabled doughter(my teen sister) that lives with her, she requires a lot of attention. Mom has tons of other responsibilities as well.
Wife and I pay for babysitters 90% of the time we go out, but my mom sometimes gave me a hard time about this asking why we so rarely leave the kids with her. My honest reply was "You have your hands full, I feel bad asking you to do more."
A year ago, was one of the rare occasions we left the kids for a few hours. When we got back, mom looked like she had seen a ghost. She said my 3yr old ran away while she was helping disabled sister. She panicked, and looked everywhere but had not yet called 911 when a neighbor pulled in and said other neighbors had called the police, who were now down the road with a toddler, and they were looking for the child's home.
For context, mom lives in the country with a giant forest and a creek behind her property, it was also getting dark and a 50f night, if 3yr old had gone into the forest instead of down the road... I just thank God that's not what happened. *edit, I was also pretty unhappy mom hadn't called 911 faster, she told me the spot where the police picked up 3yr old, it is 1/2 mile away! So 3yr old had been gone for awhile.
Mom felt super bad, and...