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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what the right answer is, but I can almost guarantee that she is not going to double your rate to $15.  That would be insane for almost anyone to agree to.

I think you have a good shot at $10.  [/quote]

Yes, I also think that it is unlikely she will agree to 15 and to be honest, now that I had time to think about it, I would not want to do what she now expects me to, which is to be a private tutor for my language. I do not have experience teaching a second language, much less to children and it's not what she hired me for initially. I also think it's wrong to push a child to learn a third/fourth language for two hours straight (or longer if I agreed to her requests), which is what she pushes me to do on a lot of the days. So even though when I posted this question I thought I would be ok with that if the pay is worth it, I'm just not.

I do think it does not seem right that I'm charging other families 7 for watching just one kid, for simply entertaining and playing with one child while their parents are gone and for her I'm offering something that is not easy to find here (not many people speak my language where I am...and even fewer want to do this type of work, perhaps because parents want to pay below minimum wage? Min wage is 9 here, before taxes) and I am constantly interacting with two very active kids who demand constant attention so I'm always actively playing with them.

Maybe it's time to quit, though that is going to be really difficult since I did tell her that I was sure I wanted to do this and I know she is going to give me a hard time and insist that I continue working.

But I do not like the way I'm treated, perhaps that's another reason I feel like I'm underpaid. She seems to expect me to do whatever she asks. Some days she just wants me to take the kids to the playground the whole time, some days she wants me to get out the books and teach them as many words as possible, even when the oldest refuses, she wants me to keep insisting. Sometimes I get there and there is a third child to look after (friends with the oldest child). Sometimes she disappears for hours without letting me know when she will be back. I never know what to expect and I do not like that.

Some days she wants me to work for more than the two hours a day that we initially agreed on but then tells me not to change the almost 2 year old if she has a dirty diaper...even if it's poop. She asks me to stop playing with them and teach the oldest my language, and then minutes later tells me to take them all to the park because they haven't been out much that day. So I'm constantly being asked different and contradicting...and sometimes strange things (like the diaper thing, at least I find that strange) and I'm not very happy about that. I love the kids, they are great. Not the most well behaved, but not the worst either and now that they know what to expect from me and how I expect them to behave it works well and it's not hard. But the mom...had I known it would turn out like this I would have never agreed to work for her, much less for 7 euros an hour. Who knew the hardest part of babysitting would be the parents, not the kids?

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