Thinking Outloud

Aug 04 2008

Babysitting

Published by at 2:12 pm under life, income

To add to our household income, my husband has suggested that I might look into babysitting other people’s children. This probably wouldn’t work out very well. And, I’m going to tell you why. Yes, I really do love kids but I really don’t have the patience for them. I think I do pretty good just looking after my own. Then you have the problems of disciplining other people’s kids. Because they are not my own, I really don’t like telling other people’s children not to do things or my methods of discipline might vary from their own. And my last problem is, is that if I am watching other people’s babies, I would probably spend most of my pay on purchasing unique baby gifts for these kids. So I guess babysitting isn’t in the cards for me. I’ll just have to find something else to bring in that extra cash.

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4 Responses to “Babysitting”

# Lynne (Who am I?)on 04 Aug 2008 at 11:04 pm

Ditto to everything you just said! I have worked hard to have patience and calm to deal with my own child, it would probably push me over the edge if I were watching other people’s children!
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# Beau71 (Who am I?)on 05 Aug 2008 at 12:29 am

I wouldn’t want to either, that just seems to be something that someone in middle school or high school should be doing.

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# Tammy (Who am I?)on 05 Aug 2008 at 12:41 am

Are you sure you don’t wanna watch Sharla’s kids? LOL
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# Sassy Mama Bear (Who am I?)on 06 Aug 2008 at 6:21 pm

I did the babysitting thing and it was more grief than gain. I did not have the patience for other people’s children and there was far too much difficulty involved it getting decent clients.
Not worth it really.

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