If you're asking my high school and college-aged daughters to babysit, what are you thinking?

[Anonymous]

So then politely say no. You sound over sensitive and frankly self righteous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The last person I would ask to babysit my kids is a teenager! The only people I see regularly gathering in large groups are teenagers. My own teenager swore he always wore his mask and stays six feet from his friends came home with a hickey on his neck. Not sure how that happened from a distance.

That is a parenting failure to agree knowing they they are not distancing.

I don’t know what you’re trying to say, PP. Agree to what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So then politely say no. You sound over sensitive and frankly self righteous.

NP +1

If my kids were old enough to babysit then I'd have no issue with that if they wanted to do it. People shouldn't pester you more than once, but asking once? Totally fine. You sound nuts. You're going to catch (and spread!!) covid MUCH faster the protests you go to than having your kid babysit for a neighborhood family or two. Personally, I think it's very irresponsible to go to protests in the middle of a global pandemic. Your neighbor trying to find a summer nanny for their kid is not being irresponsible.

[Anonymous]

Yikes

[Anonymous]

Lol babysitting is unsafe but a demonstration is safe? Okay

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So don’t OP. People are thinking that they need to work and it’s near impossible with little kids.

My teen is looking for babysitting jobs. If you don’t get it, move on. No reason to try to make other people feel like they are compromising their health because they need a sitter.

They are compromising their health though. Perhaps they've done the risk calculation and feel it is worth it, but let's at least be honest about what we're doing and are in turn asking of others.

Working as a babysitter for a family that is being good about social distancing is a far less risky proposition than going to a BLM protest. By a huge factor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol babysitting is unsafe but a demonstration is safe? Okay

Right? It’s galling.

[Anonymous]

I had a nice talk with our babysitters mom to make sure we were all on the same level of social distancing and that the mom was ok with her daughter watching our 5 yeAr old.

We need to work! One babysitter with one family is much much safer than sending him back to daycare. What are you going to do when school reopens, OP??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So don’t OP. People are thinking that they need to work and it’s near impossible with little kids.

My teen is looking for babysitting jobs. If you don’t get it, move on. No reason to try to make other people feel like they are compromising their health because they need a sitter.

They are compromising their health though. Perhaps they've done the risk calculation and feel it is worth it, but let's at least be honest about what we're doing and are in turn asking of others.

Working as a babysitter for a family that is being good about social distancing is a far less risky proposition than going to a BLM protest. By a huge factor.

I don't think that's what OP was saying though. Both are risks. Her family has chosen to take certain risks, and because of that they are turning down sitting jobs. But even once that has been explained, families are still pressuring her daughters to sit for them. That is the risk that OP is saying is unwise. People are so desperate for sitters that they aren't really thinking about what is really in the best interests of their family. I can say I'm social distancing, and you say you are as well, but that looks very different from person to person. You dont know what risk you are exposing yourself and your family to by bringing a sitter into your house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your college aged daughters are adults.

I can't believe OP would even write this. OP, what about babysitting do you think is dangerous for your daughters? Do they have diabetes, obesity? Do you? Otherwise, what's your problem? Also, you live in an entitled, liberal bubble.

Her problem is that she feels the askers are blithely asking her family to up their potential risk exposure. Many parents of teens and college age kids are over 50, or have underlying conditions. I totally agree that the kids can politely say no, and should, if their household agrees it's too much risk. I wouldn't shame parents of small kids for politely, considerately, asking if the teens are interested in sitting, but both households have a frank discussion about the added risks and be considerate of each other.

[Anonymous]

Translation - my kids have conned me into prohibiting them from babysitting all summer so they don’t have to work and I’ll just pay for them anyway. I am a gullible nitwit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So don’t OP. People are thinking that they need to work and it’s near impossible with little kids. Quo

My teen is looking for babysitting jobs. If you don’t get it, move on. No reason to try to make other people feel like they are compromising their health because they need a sitter.

They are compromising their health though. Perhaps they've done the risk calculation and feel it is worth it, but let's at least be honest about what we're doing and are in turn asking of others.

Working as a babysitter for a family that is being good about social distancing is a far less risky proposition than going to a BLM protest. By a huge factor.

I don't think that's what OP was saying though. Both are risks. Her family has chosen to take certain risks, and because of that they are turning down sitting jobs. But even once that has been explained, families are still pressuring her daughters to sit for them. That is the risk that OP is saying is unwise. People are so desperate for sitters that they aren't really thinking about what is really in the best interests of their family. I can say I'm social distancing, and you say you are as well, but that looks very different from person to person. You dont know what risk you are exposing yourself and your family to by bringing a sitter into your house.

Those people are all adults, and get to make their own risk assessments. But OP has decided to make it for them. Snobby, paternalistic bullshit.

[Anonymous]

My friend is a professor of epidemiology and she's letting her high school daughter run a little summer camp (maybe 4 kids) in their backyard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend is a professor of epidemiology and she's letting her high school daughter run a little summer camp (maybe 4 kids) in their backyard.

That’s totally different. It’s outdoors, in the babysitter’s home, with minimal contact with the parents. Safer for the teen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking that if I am speaking to a college student, then I am speaking to an adult who can drink, vote, buy a gun, serve in the military, drive, serve as a nurse, become a lifeguard, fly a plane, get a tattoo, go parachuting, hire an attorney, operate a forklift, buy marijuana, sign over power of attorney, become an organ donor, participate in an orgy, and take a knee during the National Anthem.

In other words, if I want to make a phone call to another adult, I will, and it has nothing to do with you.

Whether they accept my offer is between me and them.

? What does "serve as a nurse" mean? A college student can't work as a nurse. Nor can a college student work as an accountant, middle school science teacher, spokesperson for the DoD, civil engineer, etc.