I've been approached by a few people now that word is getting out that I quit my job about babysitting for them.
Do any of you do this? Do you have any tips? What do you do if your own lo has an appointment? What about vacations?
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I take my niece one day a week - it's fun. Two toddlers (easy, relaxed ones) are generally easier than one, in my experience. They entertain each other. I don't schedule appointments for that day. We just hang around the neighborhood all day, go to the park, play in the kiddie pool. Very fun.
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I babysit.
Monday-Friday. My SO's cousin's baby. Somdays 6-10am. Somedays 3pm til whenever, normally 5-6 (when her dad gets off). And one day a week our 4 year old niece. All for family so its nice to have my boys play with their cousins. If we have an appointment I tell them as far in advance as possible. If I need a vacation I tell them and we work something out.
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the thing that is always confusing for me is once you're a mom and you babysit for a friend, do they pay you (awkward) or is it simply a friend-to-friend thing and they'll do the same for you sometime?
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@Mrs. Pen: I think it would be really weird to not pay someone if they were watching your child regularly, unless you had a regular trade going on....
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@MrsStormy: really ?! the mom I nannyed for before I had J was always watching her friends kids and the definitely didn't pay her.
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@Mrs. Pen: Well I think if you had a trade planned it would be okay, but to regularly watch someones child with no reciprocation seems weird to me. I think once in a while is a whole other story though, I don't mind watching friends kids for a date night out occasionally. Does that make sense? Maybe I'm weird.... I would just feel so weird about not paying someone to do that.
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@Mrs. Pen: i have a friend that is a sahm also and we keep each other's kids occasionally if one of has a doctor's appt or needs to run a kid free errand. since it's so sporadic and not that often we just trade babysitting duties instead of paying each other.
if it something that you're going to do routinely then you definitely should be getting paid unless she's watching your LO just as often...
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