Babysitting the Cousins

[dunbarbarian0]

Growing up I was a few years older than my 3 younger cousins (a big brother and little sister 3 years apart, and a girl only child 1 year younger than the brother) and and often required to babysit for them. The boy who was oldest was 6 years younger than me. This led to me being placed in a position of authority over them where I was allowed to subject them to situations I knew they would find embarrassing but they had to obey because their parents regularly reminded the kids of my authority over them.

For instance, on summer trips to the beach house I was freely allowed to order them to change clothes with no expectation of privacy until right around when the older 2 cousins hit puberty. This was despite them being too old to be taking off clothes past their underwear in front of each other. But I saw their parents make them do it, and I took the liberty of doing the same despite essentially still being a child myself. I can't explain it but there appeared to be an unspoken code that the kids followed, a code that said it was a sign of weakness to express that you were embarrassed by changing in and out of your swimsuit or underwear in front of the opposite sex despite this being a completely natural reaction and clearly what they felt when they had to. It's not like they were fooling anyone. The parents of the kids also held to the belief that the nudity of prepubescent boys and girls in front of each other or in front of adults was of little to no consequence. It was expected for them to change clothes in front of other people. They had no expectation of privacy whatsoever.

For example, on a given evening I'd be responsible for taking them upstairs to get into their pyjamas. If their parents (or I) had placed underwear on the bed with their pajamas they were required to put it on in front of whoever they were sharing the room with. There were also times all 3 kids were ordered to put on or take off swim suits in front of each other. This was ordered and then done as if it was no big deal, but especially as the kids neared and even past 10 years old, the eyes of the children tended to be fixed on a cousin who was in the process of changing their clothes.

They were very cooperative, in general, but it does disturb me in retrospect how powerful I was and how vulnerable they must have felt. They might not know it, but all 3 kids blush very easily. I've seen all 3 crimson multiple times. Until the boy was 12, his sister was 9, and the other girl was 11 I regularly supervised them and regularly was in the room while they were changing clothes or even bathing. You could see on their faces that they were uncomfortable as they grew older. They knew they could be punished if they didn't obey me, but the parents had no problem bringing these kids their pajamas to get changed in the middle of the living room in front of whoever, putting them in a shower together, spanking them in front of each other... why would I promote any privacy? Making the boy change his underwear in front of the girls, or making the girls put their swimsuits on in front of the boy, or vice versa, this type of thing happened regularly. It led to several moments of exposure where the kids got a good look at each other that I'm ashamed to say I enjoyed engineering.