Hellobee Boards

@mediagirl: I would! At the age our LOs are now I totally would. But now that ILs are here they will probably be offended if we don't ask them.

I would. your LO already knows her and you trust her.

Sure. They are trained in safety and early chikdhood development.

Definitely would and have talked to one of the teachers about it. We haven't set anything up yet, though.

No, only because I feel weird about them being in our house. I like to keep school and home separate.

I like the idea in theory because they already know LO and I love them and trust them; but I don't think I would. I try to keep really separate lines between my personal and professional stuff though. There is just something about it that makes me a little uncomfortable, though I can't put my finger on it (and so it's probably my own issue, haha)

I definitely would! I worked at a daycare in college and was asked all the time by parents if I could babysit outside of daycare hours. I was always happy to do it! The only thing I wouldn't do is sign their LO out of daycare and transport them home, just because of liability reasons.

Yep, one of Wagon Jr.'s teachers always told us that she'd love to babysit for him any time. After my mom left we took her up on it, and she even brings him home once a week (we leave one of our spare carseats in her car) on days when Wagon Sr. can't make it home in time for dinner. Then she helps with WJ while I put LMW to bed. We also have her sit when we go on date nights... which we are tonight!

I love that we can trust her because she's employed full time by our accredited daycare (so she has all her certifications for CPR, etc) and Wagon Jr. loves it. He's always bragging to his classmates that she came to his house. She brings a craft project every time. We haven't used her for putting the kids to bed yet (we just put them to bed and go out after since they're both in bed by 7) but since she helps him during naptime at school we're confident she could easily put him to bed as well.

I worked at a daycare and babysat for one of the boys in my classroom. A few others had mentioned wanting me to babysit as well but then I ended up having to quit the daycare to finish up school so it never happened, but I think it worked out well and would do it!

@littlek: You don't want to know what we pay per day! We're blessed to have found super affordable day care, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford to work.

Its against our daycares policies to ask any of the teachers to babysit. We also signed a contract saying if any of the teachers resigned from the center to nanny for us we would have to pay a $500 finders fee to the center.

I would and did. And then she canceled on us 3 days before we needed her. Sigh.

Yup! I actually just got our teacher's number from her so we could set something up. My LO is going through a "I HATE STRANGERS" phase. So I would be much more able to enjoy a date night if I knew she was with someone she was comfortable with and who knew all of her little quirks and how to care for her. I swear whenever we leave her with a friend or family member they feed her like twice as much as she needs to eat because whenever she fusses they assume she's hungry!