AIBU, which stands for 'Am I Being Unreasonable', is the perfect platform for sharing your thoughts and opinions! So, for today's AIBU discussion, we have this story from Visible_Nature5464.


'My niece (11) is the youngest child with 4 older brothers. She’s also the youngest cousin/grandchild and the only girl. Between that and the fact that she was very sick when she was little, she’s a little spoiled by everyone except her parents.


When she turned 11, she told her mum she wanted to go on a weekend trip with just her and her mum. Her mum made a big deal about her wanting to exclude her dad and brothers. They refused to do the trip and also didn’t plan anything for her birthday so I took her on her trip myself.

Last month was one of her brothers birthdays. He decided that for his birthday, he wanted everyone to go to Mexico except for my niece. Her parents agreed that it was fair because if she wanted a trip without them, they can get one without her. They asked me if I could watch her for 10 days.



My niece was so upset so I decided to plan a surprise trip for her. I have some clients in another state so I arranged for us to go there for 10 days where I also had to get some work done. It was technically a work trip but I was able to plan a lot of fun outings for my niece.

Just before their trip overseas, I told my nieces parents that I had to be in the city for work during their trip but I could take her with me. Since it was so last minute, they had to agree as they didn’t have any other childcare and couldn’t miss this trip.



She had a blast. We spent a day in Disney World, went to 2 musical shows, spent most of our time on the beach, did a lot of shopping, got room service for the first time, and our tickets were upgraded, so we flew first class on our way home.

Her parents are mad that I spoiled her and undermined them so I don’t get to see her as much as I used to (I’m still their after school childcare so I see her a few days a week) and they’re going around telling extended family that I took their kid across the country without permission because I was upset about her being punished for being rude.'