What do you expect from your babysitter?

I’ve never babysat for anyone other than family.

When we hire sitters, I tell them where everything is and how we normally handle bedtime if we are going to be out past that time (our 2 little ones have different bedtime routines). We tell them the things the kids like (shows, toys, foods) and tell them to help themselves. I don’t try to micromanage how they spend their time with our children. Expectations wise, I expect them to keep my children safe, fed, and entertained while I am gone. In the process, I hope they feed themselves (they are always told to help themselves to what ever is in the kitchen) and have a good time with my little ones.

Pigtails, revealing skirt, secret crush, flirtatious… that’s all that’s needed to make a porno, right?

On a more serious note, having babysat, the parents I have dealt with expected me to treat their children as human beings and not little robots or pets, ensure they eat properly and healthy food at that. Interact with the kids, especially the younger ones, that’s the best way to keep track of them (and shoving them in front of the TV, computer, videogame console, etc. is just lazy sometimes although a lot of the times, it seems like that is all the kids are interested in), and get them to bed on time if need be. Making it as enjoyable as possible for the kids is one of my main goals because I normally find if the kid enjoying some of the babysitting experience, then it’ll probably be easier on myself.

I give them movies for the kids to watch. I didn’t care if they parked them in front of the TV. It’s not like it’s going to have a lasting impact on the kids. My actions would have lasting impacts. Whatever it takes to also keep the baby sitter happy.

I had a babysitter catch my microwave on fire once because she left microwave pop corn in too long. When I called her folks to talk about it I said, “That wasn’t so bad…but she turned around and did it AGAIN! Same time length, and it destroyed our microwave.”
They never really responded to that. Never helped pay for a new one or anything.
Oh well.

As a baby sitter I used to do what the parents asked as much as possible, but if the kids weren’t compliant I didn’t worry about it too much as long as they were overall well behaved.

I used to like to play with the kids, I didn’t just sit there and watch TV or call my girlfriends.

When I was little I almost always had fine with my babysitters. They were pretty, and “grown up” (teens) and would watch TV with us and play. They sometimes did our hair or some other girly thing.