Sibling babysitting pay question...
Posted By: Inquiring one on 2006-07-25
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Do you pay older siblings to babysit younger ones? If so, how much and what are the parameters? Our 15-year-old currently gets paid $3/hour to watch her little sister when my husband and I are on a date night (i.e. movie and dinner) but not if we're out of the house doing things like grocery shopping or attending meetings (we're foster parents and have meetings to go to for that to keep our certification up as well as occasional church meetings that take us both away at the same time). She wants to get paid for when we're at meetings but I told her that these things are things that we're not exactly partying at and thus she shouldn't get paid and it's her contribution to the family. What do you think?
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Sibling Babysitting
My 12-year-old daughter babysits her 3-year-old sister when we go out shopping, etc. We don't pay her for it because she gets an allowance for doing chores around the house, but this summer she's been watching her in the morning while I work, taking her outside to play, etc. and I do give her $10 a week for that. It's probably a little on the low side, but she appreciates the extra money.
There ya go. Sibling issues on her part?
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Babysitting ideas....
That's what I do - I have a 12-year-old girl come by for a few hours on the days my regular sitter is unable to keep my 5-year-old and it works out well. She gets some money in her pockets and I don't have the 5-year-old pestering me every 5 minutes while trying to work. :o)
On the noon news they were interviewing the babysitting....sm
man whose wife was too distraught to talk on camera. Seems as though when the child's mother was told of her son's death she admitted that they had had problems with him unlocking doors and walking around in the middle of the night and failed to tell this to the couple/friends that were watching him. She gave birth to a girl on Sunday and her son died today. What a tragedy.
do you live in a cave in the middle of no where as well? its not babysitting
We get so little of in the work place, so whats wrong with an occasional 'job well done' when its deserved, if only to make us feel better. Or even a little personable information, we're not robots. I've been doing this over 10 years, independent and believe me I could probably edit your reports with my eyes closed my dear. 
My biggest problem is the babysitting requests...
This is my biggest problem.. Every mother within a 20-mile radius thinks I am their emergency backup babysitter. I lost a friend over this. She asked me to babysit, I said no, she showed up at my door anyway and begged me to take her kid, and I refused. She hasn't spoken to me since. Several other mothers have expected the same thing, some that I don't even really know, and I have had to be very firm and stand my ground.
College is sometimes nothing more than a 4-year babysitting service. (n/m)
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The chaperones' job certainly wasn't babysitting legal adults.
OJ walks free. Robert Blake walks free. The son of a top justice official will walk free, too, although I do agree that we don't know if he did anything to her or not.
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