Are male babysitters not a thing here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TBH, although we are very progressive and open minded, I would not trust a male babysitter around my kids.

Its just weird. sorry not sorry.

Not weird at all. Like most people you claim to be very progressive and open minded while being neither.

#Trumpist

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't it be great if 90+ percent of crimes weren't committed by males? Then there's reality.

[Anonymous]

I think it's different if you grew up with the teenage guy and their family. Otherwise, an relatively unknown teenage boy is not someone you would want to babysit your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last summer we moved from Austin to Alexandria for my spouse’s job. My 14 year old son had a thriving babysitting business where we lived. He basically gave up his social life to be available to babysit from 12 on. When we moved up here, in spite of responding to every request he or I see on our local FB group with the ability to provide references, he has gotten all of two jobs. They weren’t regular parents going out, just a we need someone to care for our and other kids during an at home party.

It makes him sad and frustrates me. He is CPR trained and went through our local Res Cross babysitting class. The feedback he and I received was the kids loved him much more than other female babysitters. He got a lot of repeat business and referrals.

I wish I knew what to do.

I love you are so confident ( and sexist) that your son is beloved and ALL female babysitters sucked. Like how the hell would you know helicopter mom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a boy and a girl that are 2.5 years apart (they are teens now so we dont need sitetrs anymore). They were always into minecraft and roblox and other online games and I wanted babysitters who could play those with them. Generally this was all boys. I think they made great sitters!

Most parents, and especially dcum parents, don’t choose sitters based on their video game playing prowess. But you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't it be great if 90+ percent of crimes weren't committed by males? Then there's reality.

Wow, a sexism epidemic in this thread.

Next thing you know someone will say not to hire black people because while representing only 12% of the population they commit more than 50% of all murders.

[Anonymous]

OP, for me it would purely be an age thing - our sitters have always been college aged or young 20s. I actually think my son would have loved a boy babysitter when he was little but don’t see many around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hiring a teenage male along with his curiosities is a hard NO from me. A teenage or male period willing to not have a social life to have access to children/babysit is a huge red flag.

You think teenage girls don't have curiosities as well as fantasies? Get your head out of the sand.

[Anonymous]

Now I see why your son os creepy. You keep trying to spearhead this idea of him babysitting and people are telling you NO. If the masses are saying because the children could possibly be sexually abused why would you keep pushing for your son to be around/have access to children? Why is he sad or it was a problem that the 2 families who did use him didn’t let him have alone time with the children? What are you going to do when a child does come back and say your son touched them even if he didn’t then what? Perhaps you should move back to wherever you came from because it’s not a thing here. Stop trying to make fetch happen Gretchen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last summer we moved from Austin to Alexandria for my spouse’s job. My 14 year old son had a thriving babysitting business where we lived. He basically gave up his social life to be available to babysit from 12 on. When we moved up here, in spite of responding to every request he or I see on our local FB group with the ability to provide references, he has gotten all of two jobs. They weren’t regular parents going out, just a we need someone to care for our and other kids during an at home party.

It makes him sad and frustrates me. He is CPR trained and went through our local Res Cross babysitting class. The feedback he and I received was the kids loved him much more than other female babysitters. He got a lot of repeat business and referrals.

I wish I knew what to do.

I love you are so confident ( and sexist) that your son is beloved and ALL female babysitters sucked. Like how the hell would you know helicopter mom?

Lol pot meet kettle with the name calling not any more than PPs here swearing ALL males are pedos and females are pure as driven snow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No interest in hiring a male babysitter. I’m sure your son is great but it’s higher risk.

Not at all true whatsoever. Females are more likely than males to abuse children.

I started babysitting at 12 myself.

What? It’s absolutely true. Women do sexually abuse children sometimes but men are vastly more likely to.