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[quote=Anonymous]As I was bathing my almost four year old daughter last night, she said, "did you know there is a shower in the basement? We could shower there!" No one in our family has ever used the basement shower, its kind of grimy and tiny, and just sort of exists for overflow house situations. I then asked her if she had ever showered there before and she said, "yes! with a babysitter!" Then she gave me the babysitter's name, and proceeded to tell me that the babysitter was in the shower with her. I cant tell you how weird it would be to use this shower, its nearly impossible to fit one person in, let alone ever think to bathe a child in there when they have a bathroom upstairs. When I asked her why they were down there she just said, "I was dirty!"

This is a 25 year old girl that we found off of UrbanSitter, who is seemingly great (a little quiet) who has babysat our 7 and 4 year old probably 5 times now.

I asked her a few more questions, like, "was your brother with you?" "did you play any games?" And she just sort of ignored the questions like most 4 year olds would. I asked her if this girl was in the shower with her, and she went back and forth between yes and no, but it seemed like she was just focused on something else. She didn't seem upset at all, but we have been dealing with some odd behavior at school since the beginning of the year (since we began using sitters after having an au pair for a few years.) She has bitten herself, bitten a classmate, can be withdrawn at times which she never is at home.

I guess my question is--am I being crazy? I know kids say things, she could have made it up, could have misremembered showering in the basement, etc. What would you do? What should I do, if anything?[/quote]

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