Don’t you have a TV? Put on the blue’s clues DVD and have fun!
Adree
January 11, 2009, 5:53pm
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Guaranteed to arrive home properly spanked.
Funkula
January 11, 2009, 9:22pm
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I find myself constantly assessing whether the kids on my block would make good babysitters. My kids are almost eleven now and can be left home alone for hours at a time, but I still do it. My guess is you will get better at it. It is a skill you develop, like purchasing ripe vegtables or fruit. In the past, I have had the best luck finding babysitters from daycare providers and friends of friends. I know some parents pay the kids really well and can be very competitive and territorial about sitters, but I haven’t gone down that road. Is this your first child? With our first sitters my wife and I were very rigorous, but as the kids got older and we got more desperate, our standards relaxed. So far there have been no terrible sitters, but we don’t get out much either. We have been known to cycle through matinees–each of us going alone to a movie we both want to see–if there is no other way to get out. It’s not perfect, but it works. Good luck!
I would recommend using fewer analogies involving ripe fruit when discussing babysitters.
Alternatively you can just give up on having a social life without kids.
You’re young enough that the Viagra will still work once they’ve moved out right?
http://www.sittercity.com ? It costs money, but you can always interview them before leaving them alone with your kid. Make 'em provide references and whatnot.
Wait. Some folks don’t interview sitters before leaving them alone with their kids?
