![]() Counted The Hours Until The Kids Went To Bed. Watched Bad TV Shows In Front Of The Kids.Īfter watching an episode of Friends, one four-year-old girl said to me, “What is a bitch?” FAIL.ĥ. I am ashamed to admit that I did this, but I was CURIOUS. Macaroni and cheese and microwave dinners exclusively. When parents said, “Help yourself,” they meant it, right? Ate Everything I Could Find In The Cabinets. Here are some of the most RIDIC things I did as a teenage babysitter that make me cringe today:ġ. ![]() Teen babysitters mean well, but they’re still pretty naïve. If parents let me and my best friend Jennifer babysat together, we would only charge one hourly rate of $4, meaning that we both made $2 an hour just to hang out together. I remember I would beg to babysit with my friends because it felt like a special night out. It was the only time that I felt like a grownup with a house to myself, without parents or siblings breathing down my neck. While I’m sure that the toddler’s parents got a steal of a deal since I only charged $4 an hour, I don’t think I would ever put my kids in the care of a 13-year-old today.īut alas, my 13-year-old self babysat all the time. I vividly remember babysitting a child as young as two when I was a 13-year-old that couldn’t drive. In retrospect, 13 seems pretty young to babysit a whole gang of children. I remember that I couldn’t wait until I turned 13 so that I could start making my own money. ![]() Way back in the 90s, I was a professional teenage babysitter. ![]()
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