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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not do this.

At 19, my dad left me in charge of my 11 year old half-brother, his mid-teens half-sisters, and the 10 year old boy that they were informally fostering.

It was just a weekend, but it caused me so much stress that I refused to visit for three years.[/quote]

That's a totally different situation in that it sounds like you didn't usually live with them.

I'm the mom with 6. I've been careful not to parentify my older kids.  But they still know a lot about their younger siblings, the techniques we use to manage them and the routines in our house, etc . . . That would give him a huge advantage over an unfamiliar professional nanny.

I think $5K is a reasonable rate.  It's basically $40 an hour for the first 40 hours and then time and a half above that.  That's what a professional nanny would probably charge with a family this size.

If I was planning on paying $5K, I'd offer my 18 year old the right of first refusal.  There's no way I'd hire any other 18 year old, unless it was a close family member.  I also wouldn't want my 18 year old watching 5 kids for 5 days that weren't mine, unless maybe it was kids we knew well, and I was close by and available to help out.  [/quote]

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