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[quote=Anonymous]If you live in a fairly affluent area please tell me if you have trouble keeping a high school babysitter.  I have invested time in checking refs and meeting people only to have what I hoped to be a long term relationship (regular date night) evaporate.  We moved to Bethesda two years ago and that's been my experience.  The babysitter either makes excuses or blames school activities. In our previous less affluent area we had two regulars who were slightly older (college age) and nearly always made themselves available.  They also worked other jobs.  I can't help but observe that they were from immigrant families.  My one kid is nice and not a trouble maker. We pay market rate.   Have you also experienced this?  And another thing--how much do you deal with parents when the babysitter is younger?  I'm getting names from my neighborhood listserv but sometimes it's the parents who respond/want to meet me (which means more time on my part) and which I think sometimes means that an unwilling kid is being pushed into work (what happened with our last one).[/quote]

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