We have middle schoolers babysit often because their moms are home up the street AND THEY TAKE IT SO MUCH MORE SERIOUSLY. They ask me if there are food allergies and where the bandaids are (because that’s what the babysitting class taught them!) and they offer half price rates to get experience ($6!!!). It’s wild and I love it and I thin…
We have middle schoolers babysit often because their moms are home up the street AND THEY TAKE IT SO MUCH MORE SERIOUSLY. They ask me if there are food allergies and where the bandaids are (because that’s what the babysitting class taught them!) and they offer half price rates to get experience ($6!!!). It’s wild and I love it and I think I will get to keep them as they grow before everything gets professionalized for them. As a middle school. educator at the core, I love seeing middle school babysitters get to test being grown in safe ways. My kids are 6, 6 and 8, and are not too bananas so I know I have it pretty good. But I love love my middle school babysitters.
Our small town has a for real Babysitters Club modeled on the books (they read them!) and it's all 11 year olds who charge $10 for two of them! I hire them to watch my kids on holidays and over Spring Break...it's the best.
We have the same thing on our street! Two 11-year olds who live across the street a few houses apart and usually come together for $10/hour. I feel like we won the lottery for as long as they’ll keep coming.
We have middle schoolers babysit often because their moms are home up the street AND THEY TAKE IT SO MUCH MORE SERIOUSLY. They ask me if there are food allergies and where the bandaids are (because that’s what the babysitting class taught them!) and they offer half price rates to get experience ($6!!!). It’s wild and I love it and I think I will get to keep them as they grow before everything gets professionalized for them. As a middle school. educator at the core, I love seeing middle school babysitters get to test being grown in safe ways. My kids are 6, 6 and 8, and are not too bananas so I know I have it pretty good. But I love love my middle school babysitters.
Our small town has a for real Babysitters Club modeled on the books (they read them!) and it's all 11 year olds who charge $10 for two of them! I hire them to watch my kids on holidays and over Spring Break...it's the best.
We have the same thing on our street! Two 11-year olds who live across the street a few houses apart and usually come together for $10/hour. I feel like we won the lottery for as long as they’ll keep coming.