Babysitting

Started by Palamon September 19th, 2015 7:28 AM
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Palamon

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Do you think you can handle babysitting? If you've done it, is it your kind of thing? Basically, are you a children person?

Sammi

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I haven't babysit properly since I lived with my sister, and that was like 5-6 years ago. I think I've been left with school age kids at my friend's house a handful of times since then, but it didn't really feel like babysitting. It's certainly not something I'd seek out to do for money.

I'm okay with kids? I don't see them enough to be super awesome at entertaining them. These days I tend to stay home when I'm not at work, and there aren't exactly kids on a university campus most days. *shrugs*

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Belinda

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I used to babysit but I was always left with hyper kids or kids who didn't know better. Patience definetly is needed. I really don't mind watching children and certainly wouldn't mind being paid to do so. I see myself as a children person and eventually want my own somewhere down the line.

Sylphiel

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I've done it in the past, although most of it was a neighbor being like "hey we want to go out to dinner tonight, would you mind watching our kids", and I already knew the kids so it's like, cool, we're all cool with each other and things were uneventful.

So then I thought I was ready for other babysitting jobs, and then I found out that no I am definitely not good with kids at all, especially kids that are upset. Haven't tried babysitting at all since that night I realized it, since it's not worth the stress for me.

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Nope. I babysat only once in my life, and I had to have my mom help me. I'm good at being around kids, but it's not enough to look after them. I'm still somewhat of a kid myself mentally as well, so it's really hard for me to function well. I mean, it's not to say the kid I looked after was a terror... he was actually a really good kid and everything. It was more on me than it was him.

Juno

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I feel like I would be the kind of babysitter that would just order a pizza and put on movies for them all night, then hope they don't need anything else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I can handle babysitting just fine.

The question is, can the baby I chucked out of the window from sheer fury handle it?

okay maybe I'm not that riled by them but no, I do not want to spend my time with irritating children.
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I can handle it. With having a brother and younger cousins, I've gotten used to it. Though I haven't done it in a while. The last time I had to babysit was probably sometime during the summer. A lot of patience is needed.

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I haven't baby sat and I don't think I could to be honest. I'd probably end up playing with them and getting in on the chaos more than looking after them and providing a stable routine.

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I babysit my little brother all the time, and if I can handle a hyperactive, severely autistic kid, then I can handle anything, haha. I did quite a lot of babysitting for my mother's friends when I was younger as well, and I've done a fair bit of volunteering in schools, so I've had a lot of contact with children. I've never had any real issue with kids. Teenagers are another matter entirely, but kids? I quite enjoy looking after them, actually - we can play games, watch a movie, or they can do their own thing and I can read or something and just check up on them every now and then. It's an easy job and, a lot of the time, the pay was pretty good. Kids aren't that hard to manage.

gimmepie

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I love kids and I love working with kids. Few things make me happier.
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Crystal Berry

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Depends.. I don't have a problem with children but it depends on the child. Some children are really spoiled and demand everything. Actually if I had to babysit a child who behaved like me when I was 10 years old I would refuse. I was a spoiled rotten child.. ugh.

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I'm not good with kids at all, and they don't seem to like me, either. I'm uncomfortable even around kids who are well-behaved or friendly, and really don't think I could handle babysitting for even an hour; I couldn't even keep my younger cousin under control whenever my brother and I were forced to watch him a few times in the past.
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Cherrim

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I've only ever babysat my brother and he's only 5 years younger than me so it wasn't a big deal and it wasn't long before he was pretty much old enough to be on his own too. I think my parents might've been nice and paid me once or twice but I doubt anything I did was worth payment, lol.

I don't like kids and/or don't really know how to act around them so I'm glad we moved around too much when I was younger to ever get to know people who I could have babysat. :')


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zakisrage

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Being the youngest child in my family, I never got a chance to babysit siblings, but I used to babysit when I was in high school. Unfortunately, there was this one kid, Cooper, who punched me in the face and made me quit altogether. (Cooper's mother wasn't any better...she spoiled the little runt.) I guess I might take it up again someday, but now I've got a job as a cashier, so I don't think I need to be a babysitter at the moment.

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Children hate me so never.