GOOD BABYSITTERS: Our kids' teacher is available for babysitting. The kids love her (and vice versa), so she would be an ideal babysitter!

DESPERATION BABYSITTERS: There's two other people who the kids know (both guy friends of mine), and they could do an OK job watching them. But if any tricky issues came up, they'd probably both call me in a panic. So we'd only use them if we were truly desperate.