Babysitting for me has always been something I did growing up.
I watched my siblings while my parents went on dates , and some were paid and other were not. I knew which dates were paying ones.
I watched this family of kids for while and I think that they also had 5 kids too. Our families always hung out together, and we played with the kids
I remember my mom had a teenager watch us on Mondays, so my mom could have time to get away from kids. I thought that the babysitter was pretty cool , and i remember thinking that I would love to do that when I got older.
The memorable babysitting was for siblings especially my brother. He was a difficult child to babysit. He had alot of anger issues . I've had many situations when the kids I watched ended up sick while I was watching them.
Oh my gosh this gave me flashbacks! I will never forget when I was babysitting once and a kids threw up for the first time. YEP he threw up hot dogs. SO GROSS!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteeww...sick kids..I would have called the parents immediately with the whole "I don't do vomit" excuse!
ReplyDeleteWay to roll with the punches! We all live thru thrown up hotdogs... the hard part is not throwing up ourselves
ReplyDeleteI wish I could feel the trust needed to GET more babysitters to watch my son, then I'd actually get a break and not be so freakin' anxious and tired all the time!
ReplyDeleteOh well, some day....
I babysat for a neighbor of mine who was a single dad and he came home drunk and asked how much I charged. I said $10 (it was like 1986 and it was for a few hours, I didn't know!) He wrote me out a check for $50 cuz he thought I meant $10 an hour!
HA! Good for me, not so good for him...Poor drunk guy.