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To not want to be watched by cameras

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Englishrose223 · 13/07/2024 19:35

I'm babysitting my neices (6 and 3) while sister and brother in law are out for the evening. She has cameras in both of their rooms and can listen in and watch and it makes me feel really uncomfortable. 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 wish she'd just leave me to it.

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Mrsttcno1 · 13/07/2024 19:46

Cinocino · 13/07/2024 19:45

Surely it’s normal for people to have baby monitors in their young kids bedrooms?
The suggestion to put something over it are nuts imo. It would be incredibly alarming if someone was minding my kids and covered the baby monitor.
It’s not like there are cameras watching you around the house!

100% this. Cameras in kids bedrooms is really normal and I think especially when you have young kids it’s normal to maybe have a bit of anxiety and have a look to see how they are?

Cinocino · 13/07/2024 19:45

Surely it’s normal for people to have baby monitors in their young kids bedrooms?
The suggestion to put something over it are nuts imo. It would be incredibly alarming if someone was minding my kids and covered the baby monitor.
It’s not like there are cameras watching you around the house!

newyear2024 · 13/07/2024 19:42

Just take the kids downstairs and watch a movie or something. I wouldn't cover them like other posters have suggested. It's quite weird but it's their home and their children, did your sister mention the cameras before you agreed to babysit? Because that's when you should have told her you felt uncomfortable about it. It wouldn't annoy me personally though, I'd be giving my own sister the middle finger through it 🤣 but we are close and I can openly tell tell her if she's being a weirdo

Longdueachange · 13/07/2024 19:39

Lots of people have nanny cams, but I think its a bit helicoptery. Is she watching you in the living room too?

Adviceneeeeded · 13/07/2024 19:37

Turn them off/cover them

Redshoeblueshoe · 13/07/2024 19:37

I'd ring her and say you feel ill. Then refuse to babysit again.

12345onceIcaughta · 13/07/2024 19:37

Can you switch them off or put a towel over them?
She either trusts you to babysit or she doesn’t.
I would hate this.

Magnificentkitteh · 13/07/2024 19:36

God no, I'd hate that and not agree to it. Are they paying you?

DillyDilly · 13/07/2024 19:36

I wouldn’t babysit for them again.