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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Auntthrowaway78 on 2023-09-14 02:02:06.

Last week my sister was out of town with her husband and I agreed to split the 12 days with my mom taking care of my 2 year old nephew. I started on Sunday night and one instruction was that he will “only” sleep if I play a kids ASMR video “as many times as it takes” until he falls asleep.

Oh Sunday it took 2 hours and the video must have played 50 times before he fell asleep. I took it upon myself to decide that this was really unhealthy so we were going to phase him out of watching the video. On Monday I said I would only play the video once and then he needed to go to sleep. I stuck to my guns but he stayed awake from bed time until 6 am screaming his head off he fell asleep for maybe an hour then was cranky all day until he took a very short afternoon nap. Had similar results on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night until my mom took over.

My mom claims he was so “rattled” that he didn’t sleep at all when she was with him. My sister says that now he has “severe insomnia” and will not sleep for more than five minutes. She is placing blame squarely on me for not “following my simple fucking instructions.” I know she’s tired but I feel like she created this mess and is now looking for a scapegoat when I had the best of intentions.

AITA?