Comments on: Participate in Babysitting Exchanges Instead of Hiring a Babysitter (70/365)

By: Golfing Girl

Golfing Girl — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:46:44 +0000

Works great if you can find someone with the same number of kids–we have three so it wouldn’t be fair to ask our friends across the street who only have one. I found a couple of sitters on Care.com (couldn’t believe there were that many young women looking for babysitting jobs!). I got 25 responses in one week.
But this give me an idea to offer to exchange sitting with my daughter’s best friend’s family–their kids are approximately the same ages as ours.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:13:35 +0000

The double chin on that baby is to die for! What a cutie. :-)

By: Izabelle

Izabelle — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:00:03 +0000

Well done, it also doesn’t even feel to the kid as if he/she’s being babysat! My parents had such casual arrangements with some of their friends, including one family that was 400 miles away from us! To me it was a sleepover or, in the long-distance case, a week-long trip to see a friend. But to our parents it was a night or a week off without the kids, an occasion to re-connect.

Great memories both for the kids and the parents!

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:40:51 +0000

That child is hilarious. :D