Hiring a Teen Babysitter

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t leave my 2 year old with a teen at night. Daytime sit, sure.

When I sat at night my parents required me to be driven or walked home. I order the girl who sits for me an Uber.

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Anonymous wrote:Still ask her for references and talk with her parents so they know who you are. And make sure she shows you her ID card from the American Red Cross babysitter training.
How will she get to your house?

OP here. Thanks for the advice everyone. My house is easily walkable from hers.

Make sure she understands that you will not be walking with her home at night since you are a single dad and will be staying on your property with your child.

Because it would be impossible for him to walk her home and bring the kid with him?

Wouldn't the 2 year old most likely be sleeping when it is time for the sitter to go home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still ask her for references and talk with her parents so they know who you are. And make sure she shows you her ID card from the American Red Cross babysitter training.
How will she get to your house?

OP here. Thanks for the advice everyone. My house is easily walkable from hers.

Make sure she understands that you will not be walking with her home at night since you are a single dad and will be staying on your property with your child.

Because it would be impossible for him to walk her home and bring the kid with him?

DO. Let's say he gets home at 10:30. Do you really think he should wake is 2 year old up to wake her home? As the parent of a teen, I'd prefer to go get my kid from a babysitting job than have a single parent wake up their young child. That's why getting the parents in the loop is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t leave my 2 year old with a teen at night. Daytime sit, sure.

When I sat at night my parents required me to be driven or walked home. I order the girl who sits for me an Uber.

Your parents didn't offer to pick you up? When you had other jobs that you were getting paid to do, did they require your employers to drive you home? Babysitting is a job. While I have driven babysitters home because I was up and dressed, so it was easier than having the parents come get them, I would never have hired someone whose parents told me I was "required " to drive them home. There were many babysitters whose parents treated it as their child having a job and dropped them off and picked them up.

[Anonymous]

The issue is the safety of the teen sitter so if you can't see her visually from your house walls to her house, there is a safety issue and I will just say in parts of liver print it can be very changeable very quickly.m Find someone older with a car.