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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you may be an excellent sitter, and I'm certainly not saying you're not, but do look at this from the parent's perspective:

1.  You were initially thinking it was a fake request, so you were probably a little weird and skittish with them in the beginning.

2.  I completely agree that they should not have dumped additional kids on you and they may have truly been terrors, but they did pay you more money than you expected and you were completely unable to control them.

3.  They asked you if you could come in the next day, and you said you had some errands to run, so they probably already started thinking about plan B.  Then you said yes you could come in, so they were relieved, but then shortly thereafter you said you couldn't be in until later or not at all because your dad is sick.  Remember that they have no idea if this is going to happen all the time (does your dad get sick every week and you have to be with him?  Is this a one-time thing?).

So from their perspective, you were weird in the beginning, you couldn't control the extra kids, and then you were flaky about coming in and had to cancel last-minute.

Remember that I said that truly it's possible that this perception of you is entirely false and that you just had a really bad start.  But even so, can you really not forgive the parents for thinking this?
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