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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We never had a paid babysitter.  My in laws live close and I stayed at home until my kids were school.  It wasn’t an issue of trust as much as [b]there wasn’t much need - or much disposable income.[/b]  The grandparents watched the kids for the odd school activity or other such thing and we generally did family rather than couple things until the kids were old enough to stay alone.  Now the kids are in high school/college and we get out a lot.[/quote]

This, I get.  If you have free family options, of course, use them.

It's "I don't trust anyone but family" people who I find deranged, and likely to screw up their kids.  [/quote]

Well if you aren't going to be choosy about who you leave your completely vulnerable and non verbal children with what will you be choosy about? [/quote]

Non-verbal is til about age 2. Staying home alone is age 10-11. No babysitters for a decade??

I actually trusted babysitters a lot more than my ILs who would forget to feed my kids and stuff. [/quote]

Yeah, but I don’t think parents are worried as much about babysitters forgetting one meal or snack or not changing a diaper right away. [/quote]

I hear you. To me the risk of the child not eating or getting a diaper changed was a lot higher than the risk of a 22 year old female nursing student molesting my children. That was very low in my mind. [/quote]

Lol. I get it. But I think you were lucky to find such a person. I’ve posted before that it was very very hard to find care if you didn’t already have friends with kids or had kids in daycare, unless you wanted to go trough some agency and pay $30+ an hour. We ended up using neighborhood teens whose families we knew. But only when the kid was older and more verbal and less likely to choke, and we started by only going out after putting DC down for the night. The OP’s sister is ridiculous, 100%. [/quote]

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