To not want to be watched by cameras

Why is she put monitoring you.
Get a life.
If they expect the children to behave and everything to be excalty the way they want while you babysit. .. Good luck.
Perhaps ask for it to be disabled or leave you to work it out for yourself if it is for Free!
Rude and I wouldn't do it to anyone myself nor not pay someone.

A camera is not normal in a kids bedroom! A baby yes kids no! Do you know peados can hack into them? Very disturbing.

I would stop babysitting that is bizarre behaviour, I understand having a baby monitor when a child is a little baby but anymore than that is ridiculous.

Don't see anything wrong with the cameras in general during the night or even with a toddler playing in their room alone. Helpful if you have a toddler prone to wander or a child you gets up a lot during the night. You don't need to get up to them but can check they have got back into bed OK and aren't quietly setting fire to the curtains.

Constantly checking and monitoring is ridiculous though especially if the baby sitter is your sister.

Hope you told her mum that you won't be babysitting ever again. Playing with a toy wasn't going to do her any harm, in bed at 9pm on a Saturday night while her mum wasn't home.

Your sister is overbearing and ridiculous.

Nah YANBU at all OP

Is it really?
Just sounds weird to me, and really shit parenting.
Having a camera or monitor for a baby is one thing. Older than 2, is plain fucking weird.

3 & 6 too old for cameras. This is weird AF.
Also really unhealthy for the parents, they need to go out and step back from it all not constantly be watching.

I remember viewing a house about 14 years ago, and they had CCTV in all the rooms, with a monitor in the lounge showing it all. I thought it was bloody weird then, but it seems to be the norm for a lot of households now.

If your sister is so anxious about leaving her kids to the point she has to keep checking them remotely, and they micro manage you, then she ought to stay home and look after them herself.

From my pov the cameras are for those who is at home with children. So you have to have access to cameras to be able to react in case of something, not parents who are somewhere far away.

I think that's really stretching the meaning of the word "normal".

I'd call it disturbing and foolish.

If she can tune into the cameras to watch them whilst she's out and about then that means they are hackable and paedophiles could be watching a live stream of her children in their bedrooms too.

I'm another one who finds the cameras neurotic and unnecessary. We also didn't have baby monitors. The magic of my own hearing is enough.

Ring door bells and dash cams have normalised cameras everywhere and I do find it a bit much actually.

YANBU at all. I used to be a nanny and they had cameras all around the house. I put up with it because they paid me very well and it was my job and discussed before I accepted it. But I did always absolutely hate it and (even though I’d never do anything wrong) it felt so invasive.

I wouldn’t put up with it when I was doing someone a favour, and presumably not being paid for it. I wouldn’t be babysitting for them again.

I had similar once and terminated the agreement. I didn’t tell them why, just made up an excuse. They were also underpaying me 😕

Yes unfortunately! They don't really hate you, they just lack the language skills to explain the finer points of their feelings. Don't take it personally.

What's the big deal with the 6yo playing with the toy in bed?

It's your sister. You must be close.

Text her and say.
Don't be so ridiculous, enjoy your night off and don't look atcthe camera anymore!

I absolutely agree. I wouldn't be prepared to babysit if my every action was being monitored, and beyond babyhood, children deserve their privacy.

It's absolutely shocking the amount of privacy that's been lost in recent years. I'm fine with anonymous CCTV in cities and shops, but parents filming their children in bed? And having cameras on when friends and relatives come to visit? It's appalling.

A few years ago, I was asked to feed a family members' cat while they were away. On the third day, just after I got in the house, I had a message from them. I hadn't realised that I was being monitored from the moment I walked up the path. I found it horrendously intrusive. What if I'd picked my nose or something?

Not normal at all. It’s obsessive and huge invasion of a child’s privacy

YANBU, that’s incredibly inappropriate. I’d never babysit again. She should trust you. And I think it’s pretty sad she don’t have an evening out without checking her kids on video. It’s a massive invasion of privacy weve never had any cameras in the house, never had baby monitors either

She's been texting me about what the kids are doing (eg one was playing with a toy in bed) and asking me to go back upstairs to see to them.

I think I'd tell her that, if she's not prepared to leave you to exercise your own judgment on this, she'd better come back and see to her children herself.

We have a monitor in our toddlers room but not 7 year olds. It's only switched on at bedtime and only covers her cot, not the whole room. And we can't access it if we're not in the house.
All seems a bit OTT for me and I wouldn't be helping them again.

Worlds gone mad! Bloody wifi cameras. A camera is normal in a kids bedroom if youre sitting downstairs maybe.