17-year-old babysitter quits after her boss’s husband, Jason, leaves, making her unpaid primary caretaker of their 1, 5, and 7-year-old unruly kids, dealing with their mom, Mina's daily emotional meltdowns: ‘ The 1-year-old calls me mom’

It takes a certain kind of 17-year-old to handle three kids, an emotional support role in a mansion where the only thing more out of control than the children is the family drama. Oh and the crumbling marriage of your bosses, Mina and Jason. Meet the hardworking teenager at the center of today's story: part-time babysitter, part-time therapist, full-time underpaid junior social worker. What began as a simple gig: get paid, play with kids, maybe enjoy a snack or two, quickly devolved into front-row seats at a domestic meltdown only slightly less awkward than being called "mom" by a toddler who's going to need therapy by kindergarten.

But when Mr. Control Issues left the scene after the world's worst argument and the only thing he took with him was the last shred of adult stability, the real transformation began. Suddenly, the gig came with daily pay cuts, a side order of disrespect, and the sort of emotional manipulation that should earn extra hazard pay. The only thing wilder than the unchecked children was Mina's new routine of unpaid labor, crying, and hurling insults at the only person still willing to keep the house from devolving into Jumanji.

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