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I never had anyone babysit besides family. Well i need a sitter 2 nights a week from 430 to 11pm and my family cant do it. The neighbor girl is 15, i know her dad real well, but i dont really know her. I paid her once about a yr ago to help with a brthday party, and she seemed fine with the kids, but the sitting would involve dinner, bath, bedtime. Can a 15 yr old handle that? She lives right next door, so her parents would be readily available.
Juliana Rade
I am going to need someone steady other than family to take care of my baby once my fiance starts school and changes jobs.Right now his family babysits when we need it,but lots of time drama comes with that or they are too busy and what not.We don’t know many people since we just moved to another state 2 years ago.Any advice?
Graham Carstensen
Like first email back and forth with them a few times then ask them to give you a call. Then set up a meeting for you and the children, and then simply allow them to be watched by this person??
Just curious I am a babysitter and have met over 6 families off of craigslist.org and have babysat for 4 of them on a regular basis. My mom wonders how the parents trust me so quickly and she feels she is more protective of me then the parents are of there children because she drives buy the house first and then has my father come with me to ever first time meeting!
Just want some opinions! Thanks!!!
Moira Marquart
I had to fire my nanny for breach of trust issues (she was trying to extort money from us). She was fabulous with the children, and they only have had good experiences with her. How do I frame the discussion with them so they don’t feel like they caused her to go away but they won’t go away with her if she should show up to do so?
Christen
What normally happens to a guy who comes from a family with an over protective father. A father who always made decisions for him. A father who never trusted his son’s judgment. A father who never really had confidence in his son’s judgment, believing that his son makes bad decisions all the time. What normally happens to a guy who has a father like this?
Clayton Almarza
We just moved to a new area, and I am in DIRE need of a break. LOL…I have 2 small children under 2 years old, with one that is VERY attached to me. That alone makes me reluctant to leave her with anyone, let alone a stranger. But…I know it’s important to get a mini-break every now and then for my own sanity, and my husband works a ton and isn’t really able to watch the kids on a regular basis (sad, I know). So…how do you go about picking someone? I’ve tried Care.com several times, and even interviewed people, but I have a problem taking that final step and actually hiring someone. I’m so afraid…my 10 month old is still breastfed, and she cries if I’m gone for more than 10 minutes. Can some mommys help me out with some advice? My 2 year old is generally good with new people, so that’s not really the problem.
The biggest issues are 1.) TRUST and 2.) Leaving my baby with someone who may or may not deal with the stress of a crying baby in a positive way.
Thanks for your answers!
Donnell Roof
im 22 due in november with my first baby and my husband is in the navy, were getting stationed in VA and that is 6-8 hrs from family. i plan on finishing school, and im just curious…how do you put your trust into strangers to take care of your children with all of the horror stories you hear today about babysitters/daycare?
so is it even somewhat possible of going back to school with a baby or toddler?
Delmar Bartolet
I have a 3 yr old daughter, and a 6 month old son. Besides me, my husband, and my mom, I don’t FULLY trust anyone to care for my kids. I don’t feel other family and friends will do wrong to them, but it still makes me a tad uneasy. People often offer to watch them so my hubby and I can go on a much needed date, but I never do unless its my mom. How do y’all feel about this?
Florencio Ailes
Are single mothers who have both parents who never went to family court over her as a child, be more likely willing to do so with a father that is very comparative and can trust 100% and has the disire to be the best father ever? The child is unplanned. At least that is what her parents would say when they were introduced to the father.
Sol Gevara
I’m allowing my ex partner access to my baby, well this is his last chance as he’d been abusive etc in the past, of course all visits are going to be supervised etc.
His mother had told me my ex was skitzophrenic (sp?) so that i’d get an abortion, she thought if i thought my baby could have a chance of being skitzophrenic then i’d abort, of course i never did as i wouldn’t do that. She tried a few more tactics to get me to abort as the father didn’t want a baby, but me being against abortion i told her were to go.
When she realised i was keeping the baby she then tried to get me to do everything my ex’s way, e.g. giving the baby his surname, letting him choose the babys name, letting him be there at the birth, i told her that was not going to happen and it was all my decision, she then calmed herself down a bit.
His sister was sending me abusive text messages to me telling me that i was to grow up and stop being so immature, i was going to be a cramp mother etc and this was because i’m not giving my son my ex’s surname, which i think is way out of order saying that as it’s ultimately my choice.
How do i trust them around my baby after them doing things like that to me in the past? I want them to be in my sons life because i want my son to have another aunty, a grandma, a father and so on. The thing is, his sister lives in the same street as me but the mother lives in a different country, so she’d only see the baby a few times a year, which is fine by me, it’s actually better for me that way.
I’m just wondering how i trust them when my sons born, when i think about it i don’t even think i’d enjoy them holding my son as i just **** them so much but i want to be civil with them for my sons sake.
All their visits will be supervised and none of them will be alone with my baby so that’s taken a big weight off my shoulders.
I was never in court for this, we’re sorting it out ourselves, well trying too. Who said we made a baby right of the bat? I don’t believe in no *** before marriage, this is 2009 not 1909. We dated for 3 years and this side only came out when i fell pregnant. I never once said that i was not at fault for this mess, i know it’s half of my fault as it takes to conceive but i wouldn’t change it as my son means everything to me. Anyways, i don’t really care for what you’ve got to say, what’s done is done and stupid lecture from a random stranger isn’t going to bother me in the slightest, i can’t exactly turn back time and erase that part of my life, it’s done and i need to get on with it, which i’m doing.. Me thinks you need to get a life 
Max Michalicek