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Comments on: I’m Not Giving You My Babysitter’s Number and Here’s Why https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/ all the goods on writing, mothering and special needs Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Jamie https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3548 Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:08:20 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3548 In reply to onegirlbreathing.

Sitter poaching! That is just below the belt. Our babysitter is miraculously affordable. Yet another reason I am keeping her close : )

]]> By: onegirlbreathing https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3540 Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:17:28 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3540 We also do not have special needs at my house, but are not wealthy enough to pay $15+ an hour like some of our friends. I have learned not to give out the numbers of sitters we love and who will work for our rate….once they started sitting for our richer friends they always chose their jobs over ours….we’d been sitter poached!

]]> By: Jamie https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3528 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:19:21 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3528 In reply to debbieputman.

To be totally honest, we don’t go out very often at all. Like maybe once a month. I don’t love leaving Charlie…he is such a mama’s boy and doesn’t eat or sleep as well if I am not there to put him to bed. Juvenile diabetes would leave me just as angsty.

We do sometimes get a sitter for the middle of the day and that is GLORIOUS. All I need is lunch and a matinee and I am a happy girl.

]]> By: Jamie https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3527 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:17:14 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3527 In reply to Michele Morin.

Thank you Michele! I cannot imagine trying to find a sitter for FOUR boys. My brother has three boys and they can destroy anything or themselves in a matter of minutes…and it doesn’t seem to change with age.

I hadn’t even thought of outgrowing a babysitter. Maybe I should have her sign a longterm contract…I did tell my mom she needs to keep doing Sudoku and take a multivitamin because I need her to stay sharp (she didn’t think it was as funny as I did).

]]> By: Jamie https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3526 Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:13:34 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3526 In reply to Meghan@CleanEatsFastFeets.

I get it. I feel so lucky to have my mom so close. Charlie actually likes most people and the twins are good with strangers as long as they are together, but overall it’s too impossible to find a sitter we trust other than the one we’ve got or family.

]]> By: debbieputman https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3522 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:23:45 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3522 You’re absolutely, positively, 100% correct. Guard the number. And enjoy a little time, when you can, to get away. Although juvenile diabetes was nothing like what you face, I know that even when you’re not there physically, there’s always a part of you wondering, praying that all is well. And it continues, even when our babies are grown and on their own.

]]> By: Michele Morin https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3521 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:25:16 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3521 Wish they’d enable comments over at Scary Mommy . . . That was an amazing post!
And I used to say that my baby sitter deserved combat pay. With four boys born over the course of eight years, we outgrew one babysitter (darned if I know why they’d want to grow up and go to college and move away when they could stay here and baby sit my kdis!) Looking for the “replacement” was tough, and I truly did not think we would ever have another date, but we found a family of sisters!

]]> By: Meghan@CleanEatsFastFeets https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3519 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:17:16 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3519 While Ave isn’t special needs, I don’t have anybody outside of family who can watch her right now. Mainly because she won’t spend time with people she doesn’t know really well. I have one friend who she might be comfortable enough with, emphasis on might. She’s just not down at all with staying with strangers. Can’t say that I blame her and thankfully my in-laws are awesome, retired and close by. I’m fortunate.

]]> By: Jamie https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3517 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:51:47 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3517 In reply to mylittletablespoon.

Not enough money or baked good in the world, my friend.

]]> By: mylittletablespoon https://mom-gene.com/2018/01/15/im-not-giving-you-my-babysitters-number-and-heres-why/#comment-3514 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:32:02 +0000 http://mom-gene.com/?p=4334#comment-3514 I’d say you are perfectly in the right. I wouldn’t give up that golden gem for even a double batch of cookies.

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