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[quote=Anonymous]I started working at home full time last fall, and since then our various sitters have all become incredibly unreliable and flighty. Our kids are older - 3 and 5 - and we've had folks looking after them in the afternoons only. The kids are actually really good about not demanding my attention, and I have a basement office out of the way. But we have had a series of sitters (the one we had during the school year and now the one we have for the summer) who call in with no notice, or tell me they're leaving early without asking in advance. These are college-educated professionals (both of them public school employees), not college kids we have doing the job, and we pay them well. They have no other responsibilities except hanging out with the kids-- we don't ask them to do anything around the house or anything else. Is this just the fate of the work at home parent? Do sitters see you at home and assume you can/should be able to take over child care whenever? [/quote]
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