Who's your babysitter?

I am lucky because both my parents and my husbands parents live close to us so we have access to babysitters all the time. I am a nanny to a one year old so sometimes I do trade offs on the weekend or weeknights with the family I nanny for. they will watch our son and vice versa. We found eachother off of craigslist.org Look for a co-op group in your community. They are great to have. No money is exchanged and it is people you get to know. You could always start one too. Look for the book "Smart Mom's baby-sitting co-op" by Gary Myers.

We don't have a sitter. The only time we get a night out is if my parents keep them for us. They try to often but they do a lot of stuff together too. I have asked around to see if anyone could recommend a babysitter but no one uses one. Everyone just uses family members. I don't think girls baby sit like they used to. I know a girl who finds her babysitters on craigslist. I think that is crazy, you never know who you are going to get. I'm not super protective when it comes to my kids, but I a cautious who I leave them with. I would ask around your neighbor someone might have some recommendations.

I have been very fortunate, I have never had to hire a sitter. I have always utilized family. Grandparents, aunts uncles...... good luck! I hope you and your husband get some much needed alone time!

I have a friend watch my kids for me when I need to get stuff done during the daytime hours, but I don't ever ask her to watch them on the weekends. She would do it, but I don't really have anywhere I want to go anyway and on the weekends when Lily's dad has her Jeremy is jealous enough. I spend that time with him alone.

I have sort of a unique situtation, I have shared parenting so every other week I only have one child at home. My family is always wanting him to come over and stay the night so it works out rather well for date night. I just have a hard time with a stranger watching my children so I have never used anyone but family. I hope you are able to find someone. Are there any families around you that you could return the favor for?

I wouldn't advise you to look for any babysitter just to have a weekend date with your husband. I agree that couples have to date from time to time as it helps the spark continously flow. It is also our time to atleast be free from taking care of the kids even for so short a time. But if you don't have relatives or trusted friends to babysit for you, never mind. For me, kids safety is still my number 1 priority.

Babysitting isn't a very common thing in India...unless it is family. I stay in a different state fro my relatives and my parents live in a different continent. So, there's no one I can really fall back on. But I do have a neighbour (both her kids are the same age as mine)....and sometimes if it is really important, I do leave the kids at her place....and I also take care of her kids when she has something to do. She's a working woman and is very busy...so I need to ask her well in advance if I need that kind of help...and also my husband doesn't like anyone babysitting our kids just so that we get time to ourselves (oh, male Indian mentality!). So, it's only when I have some errands to run which doesn't take more than one hour - (I usually get things done faster when my little one is not with me), that I rely on my neighbour to babysit.

I don't trust many people. My mom, my mother in law, my sister in laws, and my aunt are the ones who can watch my kids. The only man I will allow to watch my girls is their father.

We used to call on the inlaws to watch the kids. But both of them have come down with cancer and are weak from treatments to help out with the kids. I have an Aunt that adores my kids but she's extremely controlling and her hubby is abusive and I don't want my kids around her hubby nor do I want her to shoplift from my house for her payment either. So no baby sitter for us... sux cause I'm really in the dumps and just need some time with hubby to do a few things we used to do before kids & pets & a house ect.

I don't use a sitter at night. I either take the kids along wherever I'm going, or stay home. My eldest is responsible enough to stay home alone, but the youngest not. Very occassionally I'll leave the kids at home with one of our guests whilst I pop to the shop or I need to drop something down at the farm or something, but I'd only be gone for half an hour or so and I'd only leave both kids together as the younger would be more comfortable with that. Have you got a friend who uses a sitter who could recommend someone for you?

Hi, katsmeow. This discussion has been 1 week old. I hope you have already settled this problem. My babysitter probably would be my husband or family members. I do not trust the stranger to take care of my kids. Even my parents, i do not have so much trust on them due to different perspective of raising kids. Therefore, i only let them take care of my baby for some hours. It is quite difficult to have some time for myself since i have my baby boy. Most of the time i have dedicated to him and it is difficult to go out and have some fun. Anyway, i am quite lazy to go out too. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.

I look after my baby every day nad night untill now,and my mother-in low stay with me and often help me. but she's old,and if I came someplace faraway ,i need take my baby along.

may be u can call u best friends to be a sitter,please remember that she or he should be a man who like children, i hope u can find a right man ,good luck.

I have lots of family, so there is usually someone willing to watch them for an hour, maybe two. Good luck, I know how hard it can be to find a good babysitter. :)

my kids are older now, 12 and 16 and my 16 year old watches her sister if i have to go to work or hubby and i go out for a bit at night, when they were younger, we had my parents or hubbys parents watch them most of the time if we had to go out.

Hi, katesmeow1213! I am the babysitter! I don't have anyone to keep my kids that I let them go to. Last year about 7 to 8 months ago that is when all of my kids were babysitted. I don't let any teenagers keep my kids. I will only let grownups keep them. I don't even let my in-laws keep my kids. I don't trust them like that. Although, they are my kids grandparents, I keep my own kids myself. When I was wroking years ago, I had a lady from her daycare keep my son. This is the only person that I would trust to keep my kids.