OT: What do you pay your babysitter?

[CMcG]

I’m not talking about daycare. I’m talking about night babysitting. I remember making 35 to 65 cents an hour when I was a teen in the late 1960s/early 1970s. When my kid was a toddler, I paid $4/hour for a high-quality babysitter (these were all girls from the Bishop’s School who didn’t live in La Jolla, like I don’t, but carpooled in from my area and all had had taken training in babysiting). I am shocked that my daughter, who goes to college in the Bay Area is getting such high pay. She babysat for an hour last night and got FIFTY BUCKS. That is far more than I make an hour as an educated professional. I guess I am in the wrong profession. What is going on? The husband is some kind of physician and the wife expects my kid to be available on call. But…but…fifty bucks?

[robyns_song]

$50 and hour?! That’s insane. Maybe she should consider being their nanny instead of college… The daughter of my husband’s colleague charges $5 an hour (which we think is very reasonable). I’ve heard of as much as $10 an hour but never more than that. I guess we’re cheap and don’t like going places that we can’t take our kid

[robyns_song]

$50 and hour?! That’s insane. Maybe she should consider being their nanny instead of college… The daughter of my husband’s colleague charges $5 an hour (which we think is very reasonable). I’ve heard of as much as $10 an hour but never more than that. I guess we’re cheap and don’t like going places that we can’t take our kid

[robyns_song]

$50 and hour?! That’s insane. Maybe she should consider being their nanny instead of college… The daughter of my husband’s colleague charges $5 an hour (which we think is very reasonable). I’ve heard of as much as $10 an hour but never more than that. I guess we’re cheap and don’t like going places that we can’t take our kid

[robyns_song]

$50 and hour?! That’s insane. Maybe she should consider being their nanny instead of college… The daughter of my husband’s colleague charges $5 an hour (which we think is very reasonable). I’ve heard of as much as $10 an hour but never more than that. I guess we’re cheap and don’t like going places that we can’t take our kid

[robyns_song]

$50 and hour?! That’s insane. Maybe she should consider being their nanny instead of college… The daughter of my husband’s colleague charges $5 an hour (which we think is very reasonable). I’ve heard of as much as $10 an hour but never more than that. I guess we’re cheap and don’t like going places that we can’t take our kid

[CMcG]

Robyn–

My daughter thinks the marriage is in trouble. The wife is very demanding of my daughter. I think she is paying a premium for the “on-call” stuff. She has already bitched my daughter out for not answering her calls when my kid is in class (my kid has wisely said, “I am not allowed, nor will I, answer my cell phone during classes or when I am eating a meal.”) I just don’t know what to make of this. She has a very demanding course load, with plenty of homework, and she told the woman that they needed to set up some kind of regular schedule. My daughter is torn between the money she is being paid and doing what she needs to do at college. She also has said to me, “I don’t want to be a participant in the unraveling of a marriage.” I know it’s un-PC, but I said, “If she didn’t have you, she’d simply hire someone else.”

[CMcG]

Robyn–

My daughter thinks the marriage is in trouble. The wife is very demanding of my daughter. I think she is paying a premium for the “on-call” stuff. She has already bitched my daughter out for not answering her calls when my kid is in class (my kid has wisely said, “I am not allowed, nor will I, answer my cell phone during classes or when I am eating a meal.”) I just don’t know what to make of this. She has a very demanding course load, with plenty of homework, and she told the woman that they needed to set up some kind of regular schedule. My daughter is torn between the money she is being paid and doing what she needs to do at college. She also has said to me, “I don’t want to be a participant in the unraveling of a marriage.” I know it’s un-PC, but I said, “If she didn’t have you, she’d simply hire someone else.”

[CMcG]

Robyn–

My daughter thinks the marriage is in trouble. The wife is very demanding of my daughter. I think she is paying a premium for the “on-call” stuff. She has already bitched my daughter out for not answering her calls when my kid is in class (my kid has wisely said, “I am not allowed, nor will I, answer my cell phone during classes or when I am eating a meal.”) I just don’t know what to make of this. She has a very demanding course load, with plenty of homework, and she told the woman that they needed to set up some kind of regular schedule. My daughter is torn between the money she is being paid and doing what she needs to do at college. She also has said to me, “I don’t want to be a participant in the unraveling of a marriage.” I know it’s un-PC, but I said, “If she didn’t have you, she’d simply hire someone else.”

[CMcG]

Robyn–

My daughter thinks the marriage is in trouble. The wife is very demanding of my daughter. I think she is paying a premium for the “on-call” stuff. She has already bitched my daughter out for not answering her calls when my kid is in class (my kid has wisely said, “I am not allowed, nor will I, answer my cell phone during classes or when I am eating a meal.”) I just don’t know what to make of this. She has a very demanding course load, with plenty of homework, and she told the woman that they needed to set up some kind of regular schedule. My daughter is torn between the money she is being paid and doing what she needs to do at college. She also has said to me, “I don’t want to be a participant in the unraveling of a marriage.” I know it’s un-PC, but I said, “If she didn’t have you, she’d simply hire someone else.”

[CMcG]

Robyn–

My daughter thinks the marriage is in trouble. The wife is very demanding of my daughter. I think she is paying a premium for the “on-call” stuff. She has already bitched my daughter out for not answering her calls when my kid is in class (my kid has wisely said, “I am not allowed, nor will I, answer my cell phone during classes or when I am eating a meal.”) I just don’t know what to make of this. She has a very demanding course load, with plenty of homework, and she told the woman that they needed to set up some kind of regular schedule. My daughter is torn between the money she is being paid and doing what she needs to do at college. She also has said to me, “I don’t want to be a participant in the unraveling of a marriage.” I know it’s un-PC, but I said, “If she didn’t have you, she’d simply hire someone else.”

[Anonymous]

When my church has a meeting of any kind, we pay a college student about $20/hr to look after our kids during the meeting. There’s usually 10-15 kids.

[Anonymous]

When my church has a meeting of any kind, we pay a college student about $20/hr to look after our kids during the meeting. There’s usually 10-15 kids.

[Anonymous]

When my church has a meeting of any kind, we pay a college student about $20/hr to look after our kids during the meeting. There’s usually 10-15 kids.

[Anonymous]

When my church has a meeting of any kind, we pay a college student about $20/hr to look after our kids during the meeting. There’s usually 10-15 kids.

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