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Hellobee Boards Topic: Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:14:03 +0000 blackbird on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262490 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:28:40 +0000 blackbird 262490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We had a nanny when we were really little (even though my mom stayed home...she says the nanny cooked and cleaned) and we had a babysitter, too. Mrs. Pen on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262472 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:11:03 +0000 Mrs. Pen 262472@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Bee: what about doing a day date? Since Cobi was giving us so much trouble with going down at night, we went out for lunch on a day DH had off, or you could go during the weekend. Not quite as romantic maybe, but you still get your alone time :) I only remember my aunt watching us once, and the neighbor girl once. Otherwise my siblings were always home to watch us. I don't remember my parents going out before my siblings were old enough to watch us. MamaMoose on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262467 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:05:17 +0000 MamaMoose 262467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yup! We had three sisters that lived across the street from us growing up and all of them babysat for us as they got old enough. The youngest sister was only 9 years older than me and is now my best friend and was matron of honor at my wedding. The oldest sister started watching us when I was just an infant and my brother was 3. The whole families are close so it was the perfect set up. My BFF is now a mom of 2 and she calls me alllllll the time to bitch about how my mom was hooked up having them across the street because she can never find a good babysitter. Pipers Mommy on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262457 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:56:08 +0000 Pipers Mommy 262457@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Never had a baby sitter. I grew up in a 2 family home with my grandmother and great grandmother living in the first floor apartment so they were always there to keep an eye on us. lemondrop on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262453 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:53:53 +0000 lemondrop 262453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ No, never. The only time my grandparents (who lived across the street) watched me was when my brother was born and when they had to take the cat to the emergency vet. We have some good friends that I trust, but I feel bad asking them to watch him for us to go out, when we haven't had dinner with them in a while. LuLu Mom on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262446 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:48:09 +0000 LuLu Mom 262446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yep! When we were young it was family, but when we got older (all out of diapers) the neighbor kid would watch us all the time. littlebug on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262392 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:22:47 +0000 littlebug 262392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes. We went to daycare in private homes, so now and then our daycare provider's daughters would babysit us in the evenings. Once our daycare provider quit (I think I was 11), we were home alone after school, but in the summers we still had a babysitter so we could actually get out of the house and do stuff like go to the pool and HersheyPark. Otherwise, we lived 10 miles "out of town" and would have been stuck at home all day. We probably would have murdered each other. chopsuey on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262362 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:57:49 +0000 chopsuey 262362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ No babysitters. My oldest sister is 6 years older than me, so I think once I turned 3, we stayed home alone. Grandma would watch us occasionally too. mrsjyw on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262332 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:42:59 +0000 mrsjyw 262332@https://boards.hellobee.com/ mmm not really, we had friends who were also latch key kids and the oldest was 1.5 years older than me. Andrea on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262242 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:56:44 +0000 Andrea 262242@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I never did, unless you count my grandma, but that was only during the day. My parents never went out at night. purrpletulips on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262238 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:54:53 +0000 purrpletulips 262238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nighttime was almost always family but during the day we had a babysitter, especially in the summer and was usually a high school aged family friend. heffalump on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262016 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:55:40 +0000 heffalump 262016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ There were three of us so it was hard for my mom to leave us when I was very young. She tried to leave us when I was a baby with my grandma and my grandma ended up calling her because I wouldn't stop crying :( Apparently I was also pretty attached to her. And I was EBF and wouldn't take a bottle so that was pretty hard. As I got older we had babysitters though. T.H.O.U. on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-262012 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:52:47 +0000 T.H.O.U. 262012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My brother would only let my mom put him down. They would either go out before bedtime for an early dinner or go to dinner, come home to put him to bed and then go out to a movie or something. DigAPony on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-261973 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:32:30 +0000 DigAPony 261973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I went to in-home daycares/babysitters up until kindergarten. Never had a babysitter come to watch me at night or anything though--on the very rare occasions that my parents went out, I went to my aunt's house. runsyellowlites on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-261867 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:48:36 +0000 runsyellowlites 261867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We stayed with my moms bestfriend quite a bit.. well not really often, but she was the go-to sitter for anniversaries and dates. Daytime I started watching my sister after school when I was in the 3rd grade, her in 1st. MamaCate on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-261858 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:44:48 +0000 MamaCate 261858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We grew up without relatives in the area so we had lots of babysitters when we were bigger, like elementary school age. My parents worked at the college in our town so they were mostly students or grad students and I remember having fun with them! luckypenny on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-261854 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:43:25 +0000 luckypenny 261854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I had nannies when I was very young (they lived with us) but when I was a bit older - 6+ - i had babysitters all the time. Mostly high school girls. I loved it. mrs. bird on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-261844 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:31:20 +0000 mrs. bird 261844@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Just family. I was never with a babysitter or daycare. Mrs. Sunglasses on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-261829 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:21:15 +0000 Mrs. Sunglasses 261829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Oh yes! Not often though seeing we had my grandmother or sisters to take care of us. But I remember going to baby sit during the summer quite a few times. Mrs. Bee on "Did you have babysitters watch you when you were growing up?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-babysitters-watch-you-when-you-were-growing-up#post-261802 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:08:57 +0000 Mrs. Bee 261802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ It would be great to leave Charlie and Olive with a babysitter and go out on a date, but it's hard right now when they're so young and on different schedules. It's hard for the two of us to get them down at night... how will a babysitter do it! Maybe when they're a little bit older. My parents never had babysitters watch us though. They either didn't go out, or one went out and one stayed home. Did you have babysitters growing up?