Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
General Discussion
Reply to "Occassional sitters - how to find? How to manage with child with stranger anxiety?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]Try your neighborhood listservs to find teenagers, or occasional babysitters - they're still around but it's really word of mouth. Re the separation anxiety - yes, it's totally normal and will probably come and go over the next year or so. Having your daughter meet and get to know a potential sitter is a good idea. But I can also tell you that I have learned the lesson about how quickly a child (or in my case twins) will adjust to a new person when the parents are gone. We have learned that there is TREMENDOUS DRAMA when one of our kids knows we're in the house. But if we're really gone and the sitter takes the kids outside to play, or to the park, or whatever, all is forgotten almost instantly. So sometimes the trick is in getting out of the way of the babysitter (especially if they really know what they're doing) and positioning the sitter for success by having fun active things they can do w/ your daughter. Good luck.[/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
