Our family situation calls for a very particular set of skills. We need the Navy SEALS version of babysitters. And I don\u2019t know another mother with a child with special needs who doesn\u2019t feel the same. We already get less free time, much less time away without worry over our children\u2019s safety. <\/strong><\/h2>\n

We can\u2019t afford to hand out freebies.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s nothing personal. <\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s business, the business of running our family. <\/strong><\/h2>\n

We need our people we trust. And so we keep them close.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Read why I’m not giving out our babysitter’s number so easily these days in my article for ScaryMommy<\/a>.<\/a>.<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Our family situation calls for a very particular set of skills. We need the Navy SEALS version of babysitters. And I don\u2019t know another mother with a child with special needs who doesn\u2019t feel the same. We already get less free time, much less time away without worry over our children\u2019s safety. We can\u2019t afford to hand out freebies. It\u2019s nothing personal. It\u2019s business, the business of running our family. We need our people we …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,86,23,11,26],"tags":[28,458,97,46,176,74,209,55,136,16,63,54,84,100,261,58,15,29,457],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mom-gene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-8.01.31-AM.png?fit=628%2C204&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ca5p-17U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}