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Reply to "Can a 16yo watch a 12yo overnight, every night?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll give another perspective: In my neighborhood it’s common for 16 year olds to go to other people’s houses and be responsible for their children for many hours. They get paid for this service and end up getting home between midnight and 2am. If someone asked me for nighttime babysitter recommendations I would give them a list of the 16 and 17 year olds I know. It would be really awkward to find out you were looking for a babysitter for your neurotypical 16 year old. [/quote] The “babysitter” presumably would be for the 12 yo — on the assumption that this is too much responsibility to expect of a 16 yo sibling. Most 16 / 17 yo are not doing this for the amount of time - “every night” that the OP is describing. [/quote]
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