Anonymous wrote:It’s legitimate to want someone who has some college experience as an occasional sitter if they’re willing to pay for it. You are off base here.

For date night babysitting?? Lol.

What exactly do you think happens during babysitting hours?

If I'm hiring someone for 10 hours a week with hours that overlap with the traditional workday, I'm assuming that won't work for most people who work full time. I work for an org that supports low-income college students, most of whom are Black, Latino, or Afro-Latino so for me I'm definitely not assuming that an applicant will be white or UMC.

They're saying they don't want to pay what they would have to pay a professional, grown adult nanny who is trying to support themselves on the money. A college student or a SAHM or a retired person will be willing to take less.

Anonymous wrote:I read that language as, they want to pay a modest hourly wage (“a little extra money”), not what a nanny would charge.

Yes this. And that they won’t be offering full time hours so a career nanny would be a bad fit.

Anonymous wrote:A career nanny would want full time. This is part time. I dont see being offended.

Yeah, I think this is a way of saying the hours won't ever be great. Hours are likey to go down sometimes, not up.

Why do you assume college students are always white?

Yes, it is just you.

I read that language as, they want to pay a modest hourly wage (“a little extra money”), not what a nanny would charge.

They're saying they don't want a tween or teen.

Also lower class = more likely to scream at kids as an accepted way of discipline.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s legitimate to want someone who has some college experience as an occasional sitter if they’re willing to pay for it. You are off base here.

because you need college experience to play Candyland, fix dinner and get kids ready for bed?

Because some parents don’t want an inexperienced 16 yo whole spend the whole time texting her friends. You’re seeing things that aren’t there, op.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s legitimate to want someone who has some college experience as an occasional sitter if they’re willing to pay for it. You are off base here.

because you need college experience to play Candyland, fix dinner and get kids ready for bed?

Talk abt entitled! As long as they are paying a reasonable wage they can prefer a phd. I certainly would like to rule op out of a search!

I don't know. We used this language (college student) once but meant the following:
- high school age was too young for our comfort
- being enrolled in college implies some level of judgement and intelligence that we absolutely did want for someone watching our (at the time) toddler

Ended up getting a black female nursing student at a community college (she was the best), a hispanic female business student at a local university (problematic judgement...so much for that), and a white female graduate student in some sort of policy (also a big hit, mostly because she was also a former athlete who had a car). Then as our kid got older we had a black male high school student whom we and our child absolutely adored.

So I do think "college student" can be proxy for high expectations but can't afford to pay full time or much. But SAHM and teacher are beyond the pale to me: those people don't really have bandwidth to babysit, in my opinion, so it's a weird ask.

Our college student nanny was Black. She was an education major. Fantastic sitter. Uneducated nannies and sitters have been train wrecks despite loads of experience. Having the work ethic and intelligence to get into college means something.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s legitimate to want someone who has some college experience as an occasional sitter if they’re willing to pay for it. You are off base here.

because you need college experience to play Candyland, fix dinner and get kids ready for bed?

You don't need it, but it's also not a stupid qualification. It might also be intended to narrow the pool by AGE -- if you don't want teens, for example. Or you don't want someone who needs a full-time job, because that's not what you're offering.

A career nanny would want full time. This is part time. I dont see being offended.