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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time. [/quote]

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess.  Can you share your techniques?[/quote]

New pp.  I fed them myself or gave them small bites.  I never had a mess on floor.  So many if you go out of your way to make your life hard.[/quote]

Nope, the quoted posted said that OP should teach her kids not to make a mess, not that the sitter should change her feeding technique.  It's the idea that toddlers can be trained not to make a mess that people are calling bullshit.  What you are doing is the equivalent of locking a dog outside and declaring they are housebroken because they haven't pissed on the rug.  The kids haven't learned to be neat, you just blocked their access.[/quote]

Children can be taught to be neat...  All you have to do is limit what they can spill, and they have to help clean up.  Any child old enough to feed themselves cut up fruit is old enough to pick up dropped/thrown fruit when they are done eating, and it reinforces that food stays on the tray/counter.  As they show more fine and gross motor control, they can have messier foods, but if they spill, they still have to help clean up.[/quote]

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