Babysitting spinoff question
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Babysitting spinoff question
| Sun, 09-24-2006 - 10:29am |
When you ask your tween to "babysit" siblings, do you pay them?
Just curious, because we do not, we consider this along the same lines as chores, we help each other out as a family and this is part of it.


Linda
mom to
Alex (16), Rachel (14), Matthew (12)
No money is exchanged but if there is a problem, they will lose the privilege of being able to stay home alone (or together)
If we are going shopping or something else and the girls have the option of coming but choose to stay home then Tegan does not get paid for babysitting.
I also feel Kelsey is our responsibility not Tegan's so she should be paid. We also make sure that Tegan doesn't miss out on any extracurricular activities she may want to sign up for b/c of babysitting. For example she was in the school musical last year and on the volleyball team. She had a game and play practise twice weekly after school so we arranged for another sitter.
I'm curious to see what others think.
Kelly
It really depends and each situation is a different one!
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Nope. We do not.
When they stay home, he is not really babysitting. They are not that far apart in age so they are all responsible for themselves in a sense. They all know the rules, they are expected to keep them. If they break the rules, he is not held accountable - the child that broke the rule is. He just keeps an eye on things, being the oldest.