Leaving your children with a babysitter can be a stressful experience, especially if you do not know the person very well. However, one of the biggest problems with hiring a babysitter seems to be payment. How much is appropriate to pay someone who is in charge of your child while you are away? Do you pay more for experience? You will get different answers from different people, but it is ultimately up to you and the babysitter to come up with an agreement that is mutually beneficial.

Key Takeaways:

• we are lucky enough that our parents visit regularly and always encourage us to have date nights when they are here.
• At that point we finally introduced ourselves to our neighbors and found out they had a daughter who was a senior in high school and loved babysitting.
• We eased D into her babysitting duties, starting off with short 1-2 hour time slots with no diaper changes or snacks needed.

“Neither Mr. Ice Cream nor I live near our parents, which means we don’t have access to regular babysitters.”

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