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Our daughter has high school sitters all the time for twin six year olds, and they never ask them to do more than something directly with the girls.  At this age, they meet them at the bus stop, give them a snack, play - read or do crafts with them in the afternoon.  On the weekends they might see they eat their dinner, but do not prepare it and/or give them a bath - one at a time.  $10-12 an hour is a reasonable rate today for an experienced high school sitter.  The difference is that they also have an adult former child care teacher two afternoons a week who meets the girls at the bus, and she does crafts, cooks dinner and baths and is paid $20 per hour because she has the experience to handle it all safely.  She also speaks to them only in Spanish to keep up that language skill.  There is an obvious difference in expectations and pay.

I can remember 35 years ago when I had someone coming for our middle daughter while I went out on errands to our home - a college grad student and it was baseline of $1.50 an hour.  Now I am paying $12-15 for a college student to do activities with our oldest daughter who has a disability and does not drive.  The girls really enjoy seeing our community and going out with her with the activities/eating out covered.  Our daughter enjoys doing what typical college kids like to do and I like to give her that opportunity.  She is able to stay on her own during the day or if we go out at night so we are fortunate on that score.  It is more fun than caring for a couple of younger kids.[/quote]

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