Mum Thanks Teenage Daughter For Taking Three-Year-Old Brother To School With Her After Family Emergency

A mum has openly thanked her teenage daughter for taking her three-year-old brother to class with her after a family emergency prevented her from picking him up from nursery.

Candice Curry, from the US, explained that she needed her daughter to leave school to get her brother, but assumed she would just take him home.

“Instead of missing class she actually took her three-year-old brother back to high school with her and let him sleep on her while she finished her last class of the day,” Curry shared on the Love What Matters Facebook page on 13 August.

The mum continued: “I’m not sure on the legalities here or what kind of rules were broken but I also just don’t care.

“My sweet teenager helped her family out and returned to her other responsibility while snuggling her baby brother.”

The photo showed the three-year-old boy fast asleep on his sister’s lap while she was sat in class. The caption read: “Bring your kid to school”.

Curry wrote: “I’m either the worst mum in the world or totally nailing it. Please don’t tell me which one - let me live in ignorant bliss while I stare at this picture.

“Life is short. These are the moments that make it so incredibly sweet.”

The post has had 100,000 likes and many parents were astounded that the teenager got her three-year-old brother to actually take a nap.

“Everybody is just going to ignore the fact she got a three-year-old little boy to take a nap?” someone wrote.

Another replied: “I know right? I’m currently listening to my three-year-old kick and scream about a nap. Is she available to babysit my kids?”

Curry replied: “Haha. He was exhausted. She’s the toddler whisperer.”

Before You Go

Yes, You CAN Make A Family Walk Fun

Don't say 'who wants to go for a walk?'(01 of08)

Reframe a walk so it's enticing and exciting using words like explore, play, adventure.Who wants to climb a castle or who wants to find some treasure or skim stones? (credit:Alexander Nicholson via Getty Images)

Don't plod in a straight line - and back again.(02 of08)

Choose a wiggly walk and terrain made for adventuring. "It's all about keeping children's minds off putting one foot in front of another," says Clare Lewis. (credit:Stephen Lux via Getty Images)

Always have an appealing destination - and make pit-stops along the way.(03 of08)

It could be a café with their favourite hot chocolate or their 'secret' place like a climbing tree. Make regular stops to admire natural curiosities, make a den, whittle a stick or play in water or whatever you fancy. Encourage your kids to take photos. Clare Lewis's family always take 'scroggin'; a New Zealand name for a hikers' mix of nuts and seeds, dried fruit and chocolate to keep energy levels up. (credit:ArtMarie via Getty Images)

Join forces with another family or get the kids to bring their friends.(04 of08)

Children love the sociability of a walk and bringing friends increases their activity as they challenge each other to jump the highest or widest, splash in puddles, climb trees or find the best stick. (credit:Alistair Berg via Getty Images)

Walk together in a chatty clod, not a single line with you barking 'come on, keep up'(05 of08)

There may be times you have to walk in a line, but take turns with who's the leader. Also, let your children choose the route (within reason!). (credit:Bounce via Getty Images)

Play games as you go.(06 of08)

Hide-and-seek, capture the flag or ambushes - sending kids on ahead so they can jump out on you - are all favourites. Bring a ball or a Frisbee to play with too. (credit:JLPH via Getty Images)

Turn your walk into a treasure hunt. Or an obstacle course.(07 of08)

Children love places to clamber over like a rocky beach or challenges like climbing trees or jumping over streams. Challenge children to touch that tree and run back, hopscotch between the pavement cracks or run along the low wall. "You could go on a shape walk, finding stones, shells and leaves that are all the same shape," suggests Clare Lewis, co-author of Adventure Walks for Families in and Around London. (credit:Imgorthand via Getty Images)

End on a high.(08 of08)

Match a walk to your kids' ages. You don't want want to leave them exhausted. Talk up what fun you had, so next time you suggest an adventure walk they leap at the chance. (credit:ArtMarie via Getty Images)