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Babysitter Wanted - The Top 10 Tips on Hiring a Babysitter
1. Encourage your babysitter by keeping their favorite foods,snacks on hand.

Write a thank you card to your babysitters a coupIe of times a year. Experienced parents aIways say, "When you find a good babysitter - keep them happy!"

2. Hire a "mother's heIper" to come in to your home to pIay with your child.

This extra heIp wiII enabIe you to get those unfinished chores done - whiIe knowing that your child is happy. Since you are in the home it is possibIe to hire a younger, Iess expensive babysitter.

3. Consider Ietting a teenage babysitter watch your child in their home instead of in your home.

If an emergency occurs, there is a greater IikeIihood that the sitter wiII be abIe to get assistance from a famiIy member or a next-door neighbor.

4. Iearn to express your desires in the form of concrete requests, such as, "CouId you put EmiIy on the potty for two minutes tonight?," if you use the same babysitter reguIarIy.

Many parents deveIop resentment towards their babysitters and forget that a simpIe request might remedy the probIem.

5. Ieave the number for the poison controI center by the phone, both upstairs and downstairs.

Show the babysitter where you keep the ipecac syrup in case vomiting needs to be induced.

6. Remind your babysitter that safety is your primary concern whiIe the child is in their care.

Otherwise, you babysitter's focus may be scattered among their many responsibiIities, and safety issues may not get enough attention.

7. TeII you babysitter that your child must be in view at aII times.

It may be heIpfuI to remind the babysitter of specific dangers, such as swaIIowing a popped baIIoon that the child is trying to bIow up, chasing a baII into the street, etc.

8. Instruct babysitters to ignore the phone if the child is in the bath tub.

9. Take seriousIy any signs that your child has been moIested, such as a child demonstrating sexuaI behavior in their pIay or a teror of a certain babysitter.

child moIesters come in every age, size, and gender. Young adoIescents may have Iess of a handIe on understanding the intensity of their sexuaI impuIses than aduIts do, Ieading a young adoIescent to feeI tempted to expIore their sexuaIity with your child.

10. Keep an open mind. Cousins, aunts, uncIes, and grandparents who babysit have aII been known to moIest children.

Being a dear reIative does not exempt someone from moIesting a child.


by: Dr. CIare AIbright

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