Meh I would do this. I’m a SAHM with a toddler while the older ones are in school. I would watch another kid for a few hours per day for $30.

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Anonymous wrote:You all are very out of touch. $20/hr for 20 hr/week is $1600/month. This is the rate of full time day care for a 1 year old where I live in MD. I know a ton of people who can't pay that and cobble together what they can. I assume that's why this poster is only looking for a PT babysitter. It's not "cheap" to not be paid enough to pay your own bills and a living wage for a second adult, it's just sad.

What??

Many many people in this country do not make enough to afford full time childcare. They also cannot afford to pay someone else $20/hr. It doesn't mean they are cheap, which implies you choose not to spend more, it means they literally do not have the money.

Which means that they need to look into alternative arrangements.

I grew up in a community with the school having 95% of students on free/reduced lunch. Parents made arrangements with each other to trade care (shift work), had parents take early retirement and paid what they could, moved in with parents or siblings to be able to afford daycare, etc. Nobody tried to pay bottom dollar for someone scheduled every week, because they understood that they couldn't afford to pay enough for someone to rely on the income.

Anonymous wrote:$10 an hour for one child would be great for my high school freshman. The amount isn't really the worst part of this ... it's her absolutely terrible tone and sense of entitlement.

Sure, but this person needs 8 am to noon. Most high school students are at school then.

Babysitter. 4 hours a day. No special skills, no degree in ECE.

They can ask anything they want, but if no one takes the job that is on them.

$10 an hour for one child would be great for my high school freshman. The amount isn't really the worst part of this ... it's her absolutely terrible tone and sense of entitlement.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the country does NOT pay 20/hour for a babysitter! That is crazy. DC area folks are so out of touch.

yes, she's having trouble finding a reliable PT nanny, and if you need someone 5 days/week, that's a nanny, not a sitter.

No, it's part-time, and requires no special skills. It is a babysitter and in most parts of the country 10$/hr for a babysitter is acceptable. Not in major metropolitan areas.

By the way, the mom needing a babysitter should not have had a child if she cannot afford the child. What are women thinking when they do this?? That society will take care of the expenses for their kid? This is what abortion and adoption are for.

The position is a PT nanny. A sitter is not usually 5x/week every week for the majority of the year. That type of position is called a nanny. A sitter is usually "as needed" or a few times per week.

"I want free daycare. I want free Pre-K. I want free school breakfast and lunch and aftercare and and and..."

And I want people to stop having kids they cannot afford.

Universal daycare? Are you out of your mind? You are going to take even more from my paycheck to pay for other people's kids?

You pay for my mortgage and I'll pay for your kids. We will cap it at $800 per month. Fair deal.

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Anonymous wrote:You all are very out of touch. $20/hr for 20 hr/week is $1600/month. This is the rate of full time day care for a 1 year old where I live in MD. I know a ton of people who can't pay that and cobble together what they can. I assume that's why this poster is only looking for a PT babysitter. It's not "cheap" to not be paid enough to pay your own bills and a living wage for a second adult, it's just sad.

What??

Many many people in this country do not make enough to afford full time childcare. They also cannot afford to pay someone else $20/hr. It doesn't mean they are cheap, which implies you choose not to spend more, it means they literally do not have the money.

Yes but don't get angry at the people who don't want to subsidize you. Get angry at the system that's left you so bereft of options. If we had universal daycare this wouldn't be an issue - but let me guess that some people (perhaps even this family) would decry that as "muh socialism."

what is muh socialism?