Comments on: Babysitters – What’s the going rate? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/babysitters-whats-the-going-rate-119/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:15:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: annie http://www.blisstree.com/articles/babysitters-whats-the-going-rate-119/comment-page-1/#comment-76360 annie Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:59:21 +0000 http://www.wearyparent.com/babysitters-whats-the-going-rate/#comment-76360 My husband and I don't get out much and when we do I usually have one of my older kids or their girlfriends watch our 3 yr old. Wanting to give them a break as well as ourselves we had our friends niece come over to babysit. My husband was being quite generous in the amount paying her $70 ahead of time. We spent the day out and continued to check in by phone with the sitter. She kept saying everything was fine as the day grew into the dinner hour we called to ok that we stay alittle while longer....fine fine. Come to find out everything was not fine. She left her cell phone at my house, I didn't mean to me snoopy but, I checked her text msgs...wrong I know but, the texts she was sending to her friends about us and our daughter were even more distasteful stating that we owed her now $100 for babysitting thinking that she was getting paid $10 an hour????? My oldest & middle sons were there with her part of the day and our daughter took a 3 1/2 hour nap for goodness sakes. Plus one of her other texts stated that she was still watching the brat. When my sons girlfriend arrived to take over she said that my 3 yr old was unusally quiet and just wanted to be held. This is NOT my daughter, she is a vibrant 3 yr old. I have not had the chance to try and talk to my 3 yr old but, I do plan on trying to get out of her what happened. Believe me that was the one and only time someone other then family will watch her. My husband and I don’t get out much and when we do I usually have one of my older kids or their girlfriends watch our 3 yr old. Wanting to give them a break as well as ourselves we had our friends niece come over to babysit. My husband was being quite generous in the amount paying her $70 ahead of time. We spent the day out and continued to check in by phone with the sitter. She kept saying everything was fine as the day grew into the dinner hour we called to ok that we stay alittle while longer….fine fine. Come to find out everything was not fine. She left her cell phone at my house, I didn’t mean to me snoopy but, I checked her text msgs…wrong I know but, the texts she was sending to her friends about us and our daughter were even more distasteful stating that we owed her now $100 for babysitting thinking that she was getting paid $10 an hour????? My oldest & middle sons were there with her part of the day and our daughter took a 3 1/2 hour nap for goodness sakes. Plus one of her other texts stated that she was still watching the brat. When my sons girlfriend arrived to take over she said that my 3 yr old was unusally quiet and just wanted to be held. This is NOT my daughter, she is a vibrant 3 yr old. I have not had the chance to try and talk to my 3 yr old but, I do plan on trying to get out of her what happened. Believe me that was the one and only time someone other then family will watch her.

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