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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I had no choice, I’d choose the best for the job. However, I other than the fact that when my DD was younger, she wanted a babysitter to play dolls and makeup and do hair with her. She was genuinely excited to hang with a teen girl whom she idolized. if I’m hiring someone to just sit with my kid is one thing, but usually I’m hiring an entertainer so it’s  worth the win-win.

Likely the boy would let my DD do his hair or would want to dress American Girl dolls, but I know my DH and DS had limited patience with it, so wouldn’t expect a “random” 16yo boy to be much better.

Here comes my bias :)…. I’m black and if everything was equal and I had the choice (I rarely did) i would want to hire a black female babysitter. Because of the non-diverse areas we always lived, my DD didn’t have a lot of older non-family female teens to emulate, so I took it as  a 2 for 1 opportunity.[/quote]

You had a daughter though. As a boy growing up, I had a similar idolizing relationship with the teenage boy next door who would watch me. [/quote]

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