{"id":83416,"date":"2024-10-03T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T04:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=83416"},"modified":"2024-10-03T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T04:34:24","slug":"my-mother-in-law-offered-to-babysit-her-granddaughter-but-she-wants-money-in-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/my-mother-in-law-offered-to-babysit-her-granddaughter-but-she-wants-money-in-return\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mother-in-Law Offered to Babysit Her Granddaughter, but She Wants Money in Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mother-in-law recently retired and offered to take care of our baby while we both worked.\n

We accepted, and everything was fine; she has a gift with children, so no comment on that. I really appreciate her time, dedication, and everything she does. She not only takes care of the baby but also washes the dishes, cooks, and cleans.\n

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Yesterday, my mother-in-law and I had a talk where she dared to ask us for pay. I\u2019m still in \u201csh0ck.\u201d How dare she ask for money to spend quality time with her granddaughter? Put a price on the time he spends with Katie?\n

When I was a baby, my grandmother cared for my sister and me for hours, never asking for any payment, money, or gifts. She did it out of love for us. When she was younger, she took care of my brothers for hours and hours for free.\n

I don\u2019t even know what to say, I\u2019m angry, and this situation has started to affect my marriage.\n

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Image for illustrative purpose only.\n

My husband believes she has a right to charge us because if she didn\u2019t take care of our daughter, we would still be forced to hire a complete stranger, and we would probably end up paying even more.\n

NISE, I\u2019ve run out of options. I\u2019ve thought of everything, and I feel lost. My head is like, \u201cAhhh!\u201d What can I do here? Do you have any advice? My friends have never had this problem, so I don\u2019t have anyone else to help me.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mother-in-law recently retired and offered to take care of our baby while we both worked. We accepted, and everything was fine; she has a gift with children, so no comment on that. I really appreciate her time, dedication, and everything she does. She not only takes care of the baby but also washes the …\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":83418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[657],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83419,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83416\/revisions\/83419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}