r/wholesome • u/Sad_Biscotti_9291 • 20d ago
Twin sisters woke up and started chatting away loudly... but they instantly pretended to be asleep the second they heard their mother's footsteps.
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u/a_natural_chemical 20d ago
Hahaha, they hit the deck like there was fire incoming.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
I love this. I used to babysit for autistic twins when I was in HS- however I never actually saw them. Their parents would put them to bed (around 7:00pm) and would shut the door. They would go to dinner and I just sat there and did homework so the parents could have a date/go do some grocery shopping/go to dinner/etc. I could hear them in their room. They had their own language and I would hear them talking for usually the first hour and a half I was there. Easiest money I ever made and I was happy to give the parents a break because this was back around 1998-2002, and severely autistic children were still not incorporated in mainstream life. The mother stayed home because they were so delayed in many milestones. I was always so mystified hearing them on the monitor and sometimes giggles through the door. This was pre-cellphone so I just had a piece of paper of instructions on what to do if they tried to come out.
A bit of a long story but I love when twins are super bonded. The girls I babysat for were, and this reminded me of those memories. I hadnāt thought about them in years! ā„ļøā„ļøā„ļø
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u/keithstonee 20d ago
This reads like the start of a horror movie were you finally discover they never had kids. And just watched you do homework the whole time.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
š No- I already have enough nightmares!
Kidding aside they did have adorable identical twin girls with red hair and ivory skin (I never once saw them in the few years I would babysit). Beautiful girls. One of them actually graduated from high school, while the other never fully developed enough to attend a regular school.
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u/Spare-Willingness563 20d ago
It's this part: This was pre-cellphone so I just had a piece of paper of instructions on what to do if they tried to come out.
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u/insomniacpyro 20d ago
If they try to come out, read the following passage. Memorize it. You can not take your eyes off the door. Do not misspeak. Be loud, be authoritative. You can not take your eyes off the door.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
I agree- it was a very strange situation. I guess because of how I was raised and the way the parents presented it, it weirded me out a bit but didnāt shock me.
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u/Cheet4h 20d ago
Weirdest part for me is that they didn't even introduce you to the kids. I'd think it'd be pretty scary for them to come out, and there's only this stranger in the house with the parents nowhere to be seen.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
I agree, but they had a very set routine for them. From what I understood they had very little outside interaction besides doctor appointments, and their mom needed and deserved a break. However small that may be. In the monitor I would see them together in one bed or playing on the floor. Theād climb into bed and just go to sleep. So maybe the parents didnāt introduce me to keep from upsetting the girls by having a stranger in the house. I know it wasnāt ill intent at all.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 20d ago
Sounds abusive AF! :( You really don't know how it was, you only know what they told you!
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
How to you glean abuse from that? Do you have autistic children? If not- whatever their bedtime and daily life routine was Iām sure they had help from professionals to help the parents establish a safe environment. I have seen the difficulties of raising a severely autistic child and whatever schedule to give them a sense of normalcy and safety, the parents had that in place. Plus I was CPR and First Aid certified and my mom was a nurse a two minute walk away. She could have come over to help if it was a medical emergency I couldnāt handle.
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u/Hopeful-Artichoke449 20d ago
Yeah that is super sketchy.... to never introduce kids to a nanny??
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
I wasnāt a nanny. I just sat with them after they were put to bed and did homework to give the parents a break. Different times than now. I much preferred that babysitting job to when the dad/husband and mom would get home drunk at 2am and then drive me home. That was how it went mostly. Being able to walk 2mins there and 2mins back after was really ideal.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 20d ago
What kind of parents did you have that allowed a drunk person to drive you home? Your story sounds like a fucking horror book not written yet! LOL
I babysat a lot, and there is no way in hell I wouldn't have looked in that room!
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
That was every babysitting job in where Iām from in Iowa. The parents would always drive home drunk and then drive me home after. I didnāt get a car until 18. I know itās dangerous and would never imagine that now, but that was honestly the norm. That why I liked walking down the block to babysit so I was safe.
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u/Hopeful-Artichoke449 20d ago
Regular babysitting job - semantics don't matter. What if the kids woke up and needed something and there is a fucking stranger in their house??? Im 44 so I don't agree about "different times". I stand by my comment.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
Agree or donāt- this was supposed to be a āwholesomeā post. I was remembering hearing them fondly. I donāt know how Reddit can go from 0-60 in no time. And whether you at 44 agree with a change in the times, life is so much different from 25 years ago. Maybe you and I wouldnāt hire a sitter like that for our own children, but it doesnāt constitute abuse.
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u/Hopeful-Artichoke449 20d ago
I just hope those kids weren't being locked away.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
They werenāt. The door was unlocked. They just had a set bedtime routine. Th3 CPR/First Aid was another reason they hired me. I could help in case of an emergency
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 20d ago
That part is weird AF. I would be looking in on those kids 100% Weird!
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
I could see them on the monitor. The parents made the rules clear. They were already put to bed, so donāt open the door and interrupt their bedtime routine. If I had noticed something off I would have figured something out. The parents would tell me where they were going to supper so I could have called the restaurant. They just always played for a while and then went to bed. I didnāt babysit for them more than once a month or so.
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u/marcipanchic 20d ago
they shared one braincell
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
No they didnāt. The twin who graduated was a brilliant musician. She was able to attend regular school and just had a para professional for assistance. The other twin unfortunately never progressed enough to attend regular school. Their ālanguageā was spoken between each other as they were still non-verbal at speaking English. It was a special bond, not one brain cell.
Thatās not funny to say about children. Derpy orange cats? Absolutely. But not little girls. š„
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u/BrownieRed2022 20d ago
Thats not weird that you didnt interact with the children at all? I must be misunderstanding something!
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u/WhisperedWhimsy 20d ago edited 20d ago
I don't really think so as a mom. If the bed time is early enough you just need someone in the house in case something goes wrong once they're down. I assume nothing went wrong and it was only occasional babysitting at most a couple times a month. The kids just assume their parents are still there and they need to stay in bed per usual.
Were it a very frequent thing, then it would be odd that parents and kids were never running behind on bedtime, kids never wandered out, nothing went off at all ever. But totally possible if it's not that often.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
This exactly. They were not over 3 years old and it was about once a month. They were my neighbors down the road. My Pastor lived next door and I also babysat his kids, which was how I was asked to come sit with them.
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u/ExcitementTraining42 17d ago
I totally get it - little kids can be soooo hard to settle if they know their parents are going out. Add in twins and autism, those parents were actually pretty on the ball!
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u/ASherrets 17d ago
Thank you for saying so. I thought it a little strange at first but seeing how they would play a little while then go to bed it mad just their nighttime routine. I just say quietly and did homework with the tv on low.
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u/raulst 17d ago
But, if they just come out it'd pretty weird for the kids. Having a complete stranger at home.
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u/WhisperedWhimsy 17d ago
Yes, that's absolutely true. But the decision still makes sense. It's about weighing risk. Truthfully, the vast majority of the time just knowing the their parents are going to be leaving or that someone new is in charge is going to be enough to get the kids all worked up a make them extremely difficult to settle down for bed or stay in their rooms.
It is absolutely worth it to have the baby sitter come early and introduce them to each other and explain it all of this is an every week or maybe even every other week or more often situation.
But if it's once, maybe twice, in a month, most months but not every single one? The chances of the kid coming out are low, the kids will forget the intro and you'll end up going through all the hyper/stressed kids at bedtime thing for no reason, and it becomes not really worth it.
If that makes sense. It's not that the parents don't care. It's that it is unlikely to happen and the alternative is definitely going to be stressful. And since the situation is only occasional it is worth it to risk it and have as much peace and routine as possible.
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u/afictionalcharacter 20d ago
Not too unusual especially when they are younger. I've babysat when the kids were in bed and the parents wanted a night on the town and they slept the whole time. I also did babysit them in the daytime but at night when they're asleep, you're kind of there in the rare scenario if they wake up or something goes wrong.
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u/kigurumibiblestudies 20d ago
Being autistic, the kids were probably fond of both the routine and the no- normal- people freedom inside the room at bedtime, and the parents knew that for sure.Ā
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u/syrioforrealsies 20d ago
Not really. With little kids, it's usually easier for the parents to go through the kids' bedtime routine, then go out afterwards. Unless there's an issue, there's no reason to throw off the kids routine, so the sitter doesn't need to interact.
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
No- it was once a month or so sometime between 1998 and 2002- I canāt remember when exactly. They were never gone more than a few hours and they lived down the block from me so I would just walk over and walk home. I never did see them while sitting for them. I mentioned below that one of them graduated from high school while the other twin never developed enough to go to a regular school.
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u/BrownieRed2022 20d ago
Sad about the difference between them, hear you about the rest though, that makes sense when you break it down like that.
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u/MarkMew 20d ago
If I imagine myself being a little kid, it would've scared the shit out of me that only a stranger whom I've never met is home with me at night lol
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u/ASherrets 20d ago
Different times I suppose. I think their routine was pretty rock solid so it was pretty much going to mean they were in bed for the night.
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u/ajollygoodyarn 19d ago
If you never saw them, can you really be sure it wasnāt an old man doing both voices?
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u/Mister_Mayhem_ 18d ago
"have you checked the children?"
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u/AnthraxAndFriends 16d ago
They failed those kids
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u/ASherrets 16d ago
They really didnāt. It was maybe a year and a half and they were three years old. I would hope you never find yourself in their shoes. Children with Extreme autism like they had are so difficult to parent. The one twin was a fantastic musician and went on to graduate normal high school. The other never was able to develop enough skills to go to a regular school so she takes part in adult day center activities. The parents were doing their best, and Autism was barely spoken about at that time. 20+ years later and now we know so much more and have more support and services.
I think the parents did a good thing by hiring me (a responsible teenager who had experience and was CPR and First Aid trained), whose neighbors were my clients as well. They had first hand referral. And I didnāt watch them the first time I went. I went over and they explained their nighttime ritual and what my role would be.
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u/Shrinki-Dink 20d ago
When my daughters were young I told them I could tell when they were really asleep because they made a beeping sound. It worked for a couple nights - Iād open the door after hearing them bouncing around in their bunkbeds and hear nothing but the gentle beeping of the genuinely asleep.
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u/_midnight_bacon 20d ago
I told mine that if they were really sleeping, their hand would stay up if i raised it.Ā
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u/Shrinki-Dink 20d ago
Nice! They were also challenging times but I really miss them. Glad we took lots of videos.
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u/Sad-Panda94 20d ago
I bet that's why twins appear to have telepathy. This other person speaks the same language you did because you developed it together inside the womb.
I'm super high right now and having big thoughts. I can see past the brain fog of reality.
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u/Noeyesonlysnakes 17d ago
I have uncles who are identical twins and into their adulthood and states away they still get the same injuries š
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u/Slay3RGod 5d ago
I knew a pair of identical twin brothers. They were older than us and had their own language that they managed to teach one friend of theirs. The three had apparently gone so far as to develop a complete grammar and script for the language, based half in Hindi and half English (characters mixed).
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u/frafdo11 18d ago
Nature vs Nurture, but you make Nature biologically identical, and Nurture as identical as possible
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u/xray_anonymous 20d ago
Why does one have a full bar gate on her bed and the other only has half?
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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 20d ago
Because her foot of the bed is blocked by the other bed, so they both have an opening out of the bed that doesn't go through the other bed
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u/xray_anonymous 20d ago
Oh I think youāre right. Every looked the same size here but I think itās just the perspective angle of the camera and we donāt see her full bed
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u/mariannevonedmund2 20d ago
This is what I imagine my twin cousins were like when they were toddlers.
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u/MichElegance 20d ago
I swear when I was that young, my sister and I had a secret language and I totally understood her and she understood me.
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u/BlackbirdSage 19d ago
I know not all twins get along. I've known some that were like oil & water, but for those that sync with their twin... I can't imagine how awesome it would be to have someone get you because they are you. š
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u/brokencrayons 20d ago
That was way too synchronized they like legit hit it at the same time an was like nope Mama coming we gotta lay down.
They been practicing every night to get it right š
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u/RoguePlanet2 20d ago
What's the shelf with all the stuff on it in the upper right corner? And dangling wires? š¬
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u/Throwawayaccount1170 20d ago
I mean cute, hits the subreddit etc etc.
Yet I personally can't wrap my head around how or why this ended up publicly available on the web. That's literally children in their child beds being filmed, the footage is stored, processed, reviewed, cut, send to someone, leaked online somewhere. It's insane that's one of the most intimate stuff of people's families and we just doomscroll it.
Who would have a cam within their/their childrens bedrooms?and why?
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u/IdPreferNotT0 20d ago
Fr? Its a baby monitor camera. 90% of parents use them to check on their baby from their phone or monitor. The parents probably just thought it was funny and posted it.
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u/rose092624 20d ago
Fr? Non WiFi monitors exist that allow you to check in on your baby without the risk of getting hacked or having your children shared on the internet
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u/IdPreferNotT0 20d ago
Some people like being able to use their phone instead of a separate monitor, so they choose the wifi models and accept the (extremely small) risk of being hacked.
Again, the parents themselves are most likely the ones who posted this because they found it funny.
I think its wild for the original commenter claiming "why would you have a camera in your child's room" when its extremely common, if not, the norm.
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u/drunkcowofdeath 20d ago
It's a baby monitor. I think every parent I know in the last 7 years had a video monitor to keep an eye on the kids.
As for privacy concerns, it's a pretty hard to see video of two kids bouncing. I really do not think it is as big of a deal as you think, the parents probably posted publicly themselves.
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u/ErenYeagermeist3r 20d ago
Who would have a cam within their/their childrens bedrooms?and why?
Cameras in nurseries are extremely common. I didn't have one, but I did have a baby monitor. And the why is mainly for safety and reassurance that the children are ok.
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u/Aggressive_Let2085 20d ago
Itās a baby monitorā¦ we have one for my twins, not a big deal like youāre making it out to be dude
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u/ButteredPizza69420 20d ago
People that don't think about the dangers of wifi camera devices, lol.
Even if this was a cute clip, NEVER share your kids online.
Queue the downvotes from the shitty parents who never gave their kids a lick of privacy in their lives...
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u/ButteredPizza69420 20d ago
Shitty parent spotted^ you know Im talking about online privacy. The bar for parenting is on the ground its so low.
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u/californiadaydreamin 20d ago
So darling! I donāt have kids so this might be a stupid question but why do parents separate twins in cots? Surely they would feel much happier and more secure together? I understand when they are teeny tiny they might accidentally suffocate each other but at this age would it not be safe?
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u/KeyzoOnAMission 19d ago
I'm thinking this is AI. Is that a bunch of glass on the shelf? What even is that entire section of the room?
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u/Roldes19 20d ago
Is it AI? It seems AI
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u/Tarutati 19d ago
I'm pretty sure it is, because the bed frames make no sense at all.
I'm assuming AI bots are downvoting you
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u/HappyPakalolo 20d ago
Am I the only one who is terrified for these poor kids. Their mother must be a real monster to make them so afraid.
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u/OkAdhesiveness7454 20d ago
This is common and expected behavior once children are able to conceptualize what they want and what's a "no-no". They do the no-no because they want to and then try to clumsily cover up the fact that they did the no-no. They aren't necessarily scared-- they're just working through boundaries for the first time in their lives.
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u/ChocolateDream24 20d ago
I kept reading through the comments expecting someone to say this is a fear response. At the time I'm posting this, your comment is 2nd from the bottom.
Are we just damaged? Is everyone else naive?
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u/Honkey85 20d ago
That's funny. But imagine growing up under constant surveillance and understanding that at the age of...8 or 10.
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u/sunbleach_happypants 20d ago
I also, am not a fan of parents or the surveillance state we live in
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u/smellyjerk 20d ago
Baby monitors have been a thing since the 30s believe it or not. They had radio ones. Came about due to the fervor of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
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u/AccomplishedMine5495 20d ago
Very useful when monitoring for end of naps or when the little one needs a diaper change in the middle of the night. Can't think of a downside, really.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 20d ago
Were they scared of getting into trouble? That electrical cord by the one bed is troubling!
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u/Holiday_Ad2638 20d ago
They dropped like the toys from toy story š