Baby Sitting, enjoy it or not?

Im glad you agree and understand, I do my best to be patient with her, like at first when they asked me to start watching her everyday, I wouldnt spank her because I know my rules are different from what she is used tpo, but I would tell her no and to be nice and not kick my dogs or poke them in the eyes, but then after a couple of weeks of her tellin her that and her still doing it, I started spanking and that seems to work, but she does have to re-adjust from the weekends....It funny when her mom comes to pick her up and she doesnt obey her mom and then her mom turns to me and says "doesnt think me you rethink havin kids??", I just think to myself " no, this just shows me how I'll parent my kids and what I'll do and what I wont do",,,Like I said in one of my other comments for anyother comment, I love kids! Always have I plan on having 3-4 lol but I will teach them manners and how to respect others....Thanks for your advise! :)

Yeah I have her watching cartoons, movies, playing with some toys, I even plan her naps out (because she sleeps soooo long) to where its like she sleeps the whole time haha, then I can get a nap sometimes.

Lol! When I babysat as a teenager, I remember telling my mother that I was never having children and here I am now with 5! I had 3 siblings (2 boys and 1 girl) that I use to babysit on weekends while their mother worked. She had just recently gotten divorced and so her oldest son was having a real hard time. He wanted to act out and was always telling me that he didn't have to listen to me, because I was not his mother. I told him that was fine, but when his mother did get home, he could deal with her. The first couple of times he acted out and got real hateful with me, I told his mother when she got home and he was grounded until the next weekend when I came back to babysit. It only took a couple of times and then I sat and talked to him and I was able to get along with him and everything went smoothly after that. I would say that with your cousin being so young, if you keep her entertained with activities throughout the day, she would be less likely to kick the dogs!

Well I mean they do sometimes but only if she had done something extremely bad,,and I dont spank for everything, just stuff thats really bad, or if I had tell her over and over not to do, and its working, and Yes she is very spoiled but not here!! lol

yeah they are payin me $20 a day, and I love kids, but there is just something different about her than all my other cousins and kids that I have baby sat,,, I might be gettin paid $20 a day but my parents are on this diet so we dont really have regular food that she likes so I have to spend my money to buy her food, so really its not a good deal,,But Thank God for my mom, she told my aunt that she needs to bring other some food so that she can eat because they are on a diet,,but I only have a week and a half before I stop watchin her.

Yeah ther might be some stuff I could have done differently but she really tries my patients,, so I give her lots of time outs and make her take a nap sometimes at punishment, and then sometimes I have to spank her.

Yeah I enjoy babysitting too but there are just somethings she does on purpose and she knows it, but I put her in timeout and sometimes she starts fake crying thinking she can get out, probably because she gets away with doing that with her parents and it works, but I tell he fake cryin isnt going to work with me and then she will start throwin a temper tandrum but I just put her in timeout even longer and depending on what she does, I have to spank her, and I tell her because its her actions that got her in time out in the first place so the only person to be mad at is herself and Im not gonna let her treat me like that,,,She is startin to act better for me, but I do have to like re-teach her i guess on mondays because she goes home and acts bad for her parents but doesnt get in trouble but shes is gettin better about it

Yeah I dont like that either, most of the time she is fake crying thinkin it will work with me, because she gets what she wants when she does it at her house, but I just tell her to stop because that doesnt work with me and I know when she is faking and when she isnt. and when she throws lil tandrums I keep her in timeout even longer, because her actions got her put in time out, so the only person to be mad at is herself so she isnt going to act that way towards me...

I can understand that. especially if you have been around kids all the time like I have, my brother and I are the oldest of all the "grandkids" of our family, and every had to play with them all of their lives, and Ive been babysitting for years and I love kids, never have had a problem with any of them except my little 3 year old... But I think its because all the other kids have had the proper punishiment for acting up and they have been taught respect and how to show it and they have manners but this one hasnt had that, but I told her at my house she will have manners (like asking for more drink instead of telling me to get her some more) and will mind me or she will get introuble. But I just try to keep her entertained, either watching cartoons or movies, and then I give her a nap.

Thanks for your advise,,I've been babysitting her since she was a baby though but not like everyday like I am now, but she has never been then bad,,,But I can tell she knows better because I'll watch her play and then she will look around to see if anyone is watching and then she will just get up walk over to my dog, which is just laying there and will pull back and just kick him as hard as she can, then I'll say something to her and ask what did she just do, and she will say I kicked him, and I'll ask why, and she will say because it hurts him,, and I asked if she kick him just to hurt him and she will say yes,and then I'll give her a time out and tell her if she kicks him again I'll spank her and then later she will do it again and I'll spank her,, but other stuff like playing in their food, I know its just her being a kid and likes to play in stuff, because thats what kids do so I dont spank her for that, I just tell her to stay out of it....But I understand that she is just a kid but you cant let them get away with talking back and tellin me no,,When I was a kid, I remember getting spanked or my mouth smack for back talk or telling my parents no, I also got introuble for not saying "yes ma'am or no ma'am" or "yes sir, no sir". My dad was in the military so it was all about respect and manners and I believe I am a good, respectable person because of it, but her parents dont punish her at all, it drive my whole family crazy though, my grandma has watched her before too and she told me how she doesnt agree with it that they dont punish her but yet they ask every one to watch her and sometimes her old brother and sister which they are all half, it like "his, hers and theirs", the brother acts right, very repectful, but the sister isnt and she acts up all the time,and lies to everyone about everything and does this at school too and I think this is where the 3 year old gets it from