Typical cost of Mother's Helper in NoVA

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you looking for a tween or teen to play with the kids while you are working for like 2-3 hours a few times a week or are you looking for an adult to care for two children for 15+ hours a week during normal business hours? Those are very different price ranges.

And very different job titles. An adult working during normal business hours is not a "mother's helper" (middle school age neighbor child who comes over for a couple hours while the parent is still home.)

Home and available as well, not working.

The parent doesn't need to be within arms reach, staring intently at the 12 year old for it to be a "mother's helper." It's fine for the parent to work (or wash dishes, or workout in the basement, or sit and read a book.)

Did you miss that one of the kids is a baby? Idk, maybe I'm over-protective, but I don't think I'd leave my infant with a 12-year-old while I went out and did yardwork, chores around the house, or worked on my computer in another room/floor of the house for a couple of hours.

No I didn’t miss it.
When I was 14 I was babysitting (parents were not home) for my neighbors with a 6 week old, a two year old, and a 3 year old. Their dad was a pediatric cardiologist.
A 13 year old watching an infant and a pre-school aged child while the parent is on premises is fine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you looking for a tween or teen to play with the kids while you are working for like 2-3 hours a few times a week or are you looking for an adult to care for two children for 15+ hours a week during normal business hours? Those are very different price ranges.

And very different job titles. An adult working during normal business hours is not a "mother's helper" (middle school age neighbor child who comes over for a couple hours while the parent is still home.)

Home and available as well, not working.

The parent doesn't need to be within arms reach, staring intently at the 12 year old for it to be a "mother's helper." It's fine for the parent to work (or wash dishes, or workout in the basement, or sit and read a book.)

Did you miss that one of the kids is a baby? Idk, maybe I'm over-protective, but I don't think I'd leave my infant with a 12-year-old while I went out and did yardwork, chores around the house, or worked on my computer in another room/floor of the house for a couple of hours.

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Would you really hire a mothers helper and then just sit next to them and stare the whole time as they played with your kid? What would be the point?

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you looking for a tween or teen to play with the kids while you are working for like 2-3 hours a few times a week or are you looking for an adult to care for two children for 15+ hours a week during normal business hours? Those are very different price ranges.

And very different job titles. An adult working during normal business hours is not a "mother's helper" (middle school age neighbor child who comes over for a couple hours while the parent is still home.)

Home and available as well, not working.

The parent doesn't need to be within arms reach, staring intently at the 12 year old for it to be a "mother's helper." It's fine for the parent to work (or wash dishes, or workout in the basement, or sit and read a book.)

Did you miss that one of the kids is a baby? Idk, maybe I'm over-protective, but I don't think I'd leave my infant with a 12-year-old while I went out and did yardwork, chores around the house, or worked on my computer in another room/floor of the house for a couple of hours.

No I didn’t miss it.
When I was 14 I was babysitting (parents were not home) for my neighbors with a 6 week old, a two year old, and a 3 year old. Their dad was a pediatric cardiologist.
A 13 year old watching an infant and a pre-school aged child while the parent is on premises is fine.

Wow- were you trained in infant CPR?

[Anonymous]

I pay by age as I expect responsibility, initiative and activities to increase by age. $11 for an 11 year old. I’ve got two tweens who do this and that’s what they get paid. For babysitting, they get paid $15/hr.

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I think about this all the time- when my best friend and I were 12 and 13 years old, a family down the street had us babysit (together) at least 2 nights a month for their toddler and infant TRIPLETS! Honestly, it seemed fine at the time, but now I look back thinking who in their right mind would leave 4 under 2 years old with two 7th graders?

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you looking for a tween or teen to play with the kids while you are working for like 2-3 hours a few times a week or are you looking for an adult to care for two children for 15+ hours a week during normal business hours? Those are very different price ranges.

And very different job titles. An adult working during normal business hours is not a "mother's helper" (middle school age neighbor child who comes over for a couple hours while the parent is still home.)

Home and available as well, not working.

The parent doesn't need to be within arms reach, staring intently at the 12 year old for it to be a "mother's helper." It's fine for the parent to work (or wash dishes, or workout in the basement, or sit and read a book.)

Did you miss that one of the kids is a baby? Idk, maybe I'm over-protective, but I don't think I'd leave my infant with a 12-year-old while I went out and did yardwork, chores around the house, or worked on my computer in another room/floor of the house for a couple of hours.

No I didn’t miss it.
When I was 14 I was babysitting (parents were not home) for my neighbors with a 6 week old, a two year old, and a 3 year old. Their dad was a pediatric cardiologist.
A 13 year old watching an infant and a pre-school aged child while the parent is on premises is fine.

Wow- were you trained in infant CPR?

Nope.
It was the early 90s. I babysat a lot for many families, and none ever asked about CPR or any other training. Same with my friends who babysat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you looking for a tween or teen to play with the kids while you are working for like 2-3 hours a few times a week or are you looking for an adult to care for two children for 15+ hours a week during normal business hours? Those are very different price ranges.

And very different job titles. An adult working during normal business hours is not a "mother's helper" (middle school age neighbor child who comes over for a couple hours while the parent is still home.)

Home and available as well, not working.

The parent doesn't need to be within arms reach, staring intently at the 12 year old for it to be a "mother's helper." It's fine for the parent to work (or wash dishes, or workout in the basement, or sit and read a book.)

Did you miss that one of the kids is a baby? Idk, maybe I'm over-protective, but I don't think I'd leave my infant with a 12-year-old while I went out and did yardwork, chores around the house, or worked on my computer in another room/floor of the house for a couple of hours.

No I didn’t miss it.
When I was 14 I was babysitting (parents were not home) for my neighbors with a 6 week old, a two year old, and a 3 year old. Their dad was a pediatric cardiologist.
A 13 year old watching an infant and a pre-school aged child while the parent is on premises is fine.

Wow- were you trained in infant CPR?[/quote,]

I babysat for a weekend with my sister's two children (2 years and 6 months) when I was 15 and was not trained in infant CPR. I have three grown children and was not trained in infant CPR.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you looking for a tween or teen to play with the kids while you are working for like 2-3 hours a few times a week or are you looking for an adult to care for two children for 15+ hours a week during normal business hours? Those are very different price ranges.

And very different job titles. An adult working during normal business hours is not a "mother's helper" (middle school age neighbor child who comes over for a couple hours while the parent is still home.)

Home and available as well, not working.

The parent doesn't need to be within arms reach, staring intently at the 12 year old for it to be a "mother's helper." It's fine for the parent to work (or wash dishes, or workout in the basement, or sit and read a book.)

Did you miss that one of the kids is a baby? Idk, maybe I'm over-protective, but I don't think I'd leave my infant with a 12-year-old while I went out and did yardwork, chores around the house, or worked on my computer in another room/floor of the house for a couple of hours.

No I didn’t miss it.
When I was 14 I was babysitting (parents were not home) for my neighbors with a 6 week old, a two year old, and a 3 year old. Their dad was a pediatric cardiologist.
A 13 year old watching an infant and a pre-school aged child while the parent is on premises is fine.

Wow- were you trained in infant CPR?

Only about 3% of the population is properly trained in any kind of CPR.

[Anonymous]

You mean a nanny? I can’t imagine anyone decent would do it for less than $20 an hour.

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Anonymous wrote:A mother's helping is usually a preteen learning how to babysit around 10-13yo. I would say $12hr is fair.

OP has an infant and a toddler who need to be watched while OP is working. A 10-13 yo can't do that!!

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A 12-13 year old surely could.

They are in school.

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Anonymous wrote:A mother's helping is usually a preteen learning how to babysit around 10-13yo. I would say $12hr is fair.

OP has an infant and a toddler who need to be watched while OP is working. A 10-13 yo can't do that!!

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A 12-13 year old surely could.

They are in school.

Not 24/7
If OP wants a mother's helper, she knows the kid can only come when schools not in session (afternoons, weekends, school breaks.)