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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure what's the best solution, but I'd like to share an experience I had.  When I finished college, I was looking for work and accepted a few babysitting jobs.  One parent asked me to pick up her son from school some afternoons and sit with him until she came home.  He was angry every time I arrived and talked incessantly about why his mother leaves him with strangers ("She works a lot.  She's more interested in her job.").  He was a bright, serious 5th grader who didn't seem happy to me.  I tried to engage him, read with him, play games with him, and listen to him.  Nothing really made him happy.  It made me sad, actually.  I  did not mention this to his mother.  She would come home, hug him, pay me, and say, "I'll call you if I need you."  Not one time did she ask me about his day or how he behaved.  I was young and didn't know how to express to her how concerned I was.

Well, one day, she came home, and her son just ignored her.  She reached for her purse to pay me, and I told her that she didn't need to pay me this time.  Then I asked her son to tell his mother what he confided in me each day.  He cried and told her how he felt.  How do you think she responded?  She started blaming me saying that I should not discuss his feelings with him!  I told her that was my last day.

I'm a mom now, and it's hard, so I understand we have to ask others for help.  But I will try never to have my child with so many different people day after day.  I think that can be damaging on so many levels.  If it's a couple of times week with the same person, it's probably fine, but different people every day?  That's torture.[/quote]

Uh... okay.

Thanks for sharing?[/quote]

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