To not want to be watched by cameras

[Englishrose223]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nah YANBU at all OP

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.

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.

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.

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

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.