Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still ask her for references and talk with her parents so they know who you are. And make sure she shows you her ID card from the American Red Cross babysitter training.
How will she get to your house?
OP here. Thanks for the advice everyone. My house is easily walkable from hers.
Make sure she understands that you will not be walking with her home at night since you are a single dad and will be staying on your property with your child.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still ask her for references and talk with her parents so they know who you are. And make sure she shows you her ID card from the American Red Cross babysitter training.
How will she get to your house?
OP here. Thanks for the advice everyone. My house is easily walkable from hers.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BTW OP - there are no such thing as landlines anymore. And your two year old will want a phone by the time he's four.
Yes there are. Plenty of them.
Anonymous wrote:BTW OP - there are no such thing as landlines anymore. And your two year old will want a phone by the time he's four.
Anonymous wrote:I'm a single dad in my mid-30s; my son is about to turn two in a couple of months. I recently moved to a new neighborhood in Silver Spring and a high school-aged babysitter in the neighborhood was recommended to me by my next-door neighbor. My neighbor, a woman, gave me the girl's number so I can contact her about possibly babysitting in a couple of weeks.
I assume (perhaps wrongly) that the number is the girl's cell phone since all the teens I see in the area have them. Question: Do I reach out to the girl via text and ask about her availability? It seems slightly odd, but maybe I'm being overly cautious due to recent events in the news. What's the proper protocol here?
Anonymous wrote:Still ask her for references and talk with her parents so they know who you are. And make sure she shows you her ID card from the American Red Cross babysitter training.
How will she get to your house?
Anonymous wrote:You might also want to include your email address and your last name in case her parent wants to get in touch with you.