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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 62231" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>difficult child 1 occasionally baby-sits for a friend of ours who has three boys, 8, 6 and 18 months. He's usually only watching the two older boys but will look after the baby too. She pays him about $15 for 2-3 hours. Once he baby-sat until about 2 am, because the baby had had a nasty fall and they'd taken him to hospital.</p><p></p><p>We don't use baby-sitters any more. Back when we did, I remember we were going to a street party at a neighbour's literally over the road. Another friend in town with a daughter the same age as easy child was also going but couldn't afford a baby-sitter, so I checked with our sitter about leaving the girl with our tribe. After all, the sitter was looking after my three and my friend's one. The sitter (an older lady who also often did my washing up without being asked) said OK, not a problem. </p><p>I dropped in a few times through the night, as did the other mother - pop over home to collect some papers, a book, a warmer jacket - and at the end of the night, the sitter charged us DOUBLE because she'd had to mind two families. I mean, the kids were settled in bed almost as soon as we left and each time we got back home briefly, all the kids were in bed asleep. I wasn't impressed and she never sat for us again, even though we'd used her as a sitter for years.</p><p></p><p>I do think it's something that needs to be negotiated ahead of time (from this experience) and also you need to consider - will the kids be a problem? Will they be in bed asleep all the time? Will you be requiring the sitter to be up past midnight? Will the sitter be taking themselves home, or wanting you to drive them?</p><p></p><p>Lately I've been minding kids for people who can't afford a sitter - I don't really mind if it's a friend because they generally reciprocate in some other way. But not if they try to take advantage of me.</p><p></p><p>I do volunteer teaching at the local school. I used to do it after school and found I was getting stuck with kids who didn't want to be there and wouldn't behave for me, because their mother simply wanted to save after-school care fees. I switched to lunchtimes and the problems stopped - the kids who don't want to be there, just don't go. Or they leave. So all the kids are wonderful, delightful and easy for me to handle. They do not abuse my anarchy in any way, for which I'm grateful.</p><p></p><p>There are so many factors to this, it's hard to know where to begin.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 62231, member: 1991"] difficult child 1 occasionally baby-sits for a friend of ours who has three boys, 8, 6 and 18 months. He's usually only watching the two older boys but will look after the baby too. She pays him about $15 for 2-3 hours. Once he baby-sat until about 2 am, because the baby had had a nasty fall and they'd taken him to hospital. We don't use baby-sitters any more. Back when we did, I remember we were going to a street party at a neighbour's literally over the road. Another friend in town with a daughter the same age as easy child was also going but couldn't afford a baby-sitter, so I checked with our sitter about leaving the girl with our tribe. After all, the sitter was looking after my three and my friend's one. The sitter (an older lady who also often did my washing up without being asked) said OK, not a problem. I dropped in a few times through the night, as did the other mother - pop over home to collect some papers, a book, a warmer jacket - and at the end of the night, the sitter charged us DOUBLE because she'd had to mind two families. I mean, the kids were settled in bed almost as soon as we left and each time we got back home briefly, all the kids were in bed asleep. I wasn't impressed and she never sat for us again, even though we'd used her as a sitter for years. I do think it's something that needs to be negotiated ahead of time (from this experience) and also you need to consider - will the kids be a problem? Will they be in bed asleep all the time? Will you be requiring the sitter to be up past midnight? Will the sitter be taking themselves home, or wanting you to drive them? Lately I've been minding kids for people who can't afford a sitter - I don't really mind if it's a friend because they generally reciprocate in some other way. But not if they try to take advantage of me. I do volunteer teaching at the local school. I used to do it after school and found I was getting stuck with kids who didn't want to be there and wouldn't behave for me, because their mother simply wanted to save after-school care fees. I switched to lunchtimes and the problems stopped - the kids who don't want to be there, just don't go. Or they leave. So all the kids are wonderful, delightful and easy for me to handle. They do not abuse my anarchy in any way, for which I'm grateful. There are so many factors to this, it's hard to know where to begin. Marg [/QUOTE]
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