Wow... I just saw this on a Facebook trade site and it made me so mad! She is asking for QUALITY childcare for TWO KIDS, for six and a half hours a day for less than $30 a day, which comes out less than $4.60 an HOUR for two kids! As someone who babysits and has for a few years, if someone tried to give me $20 for a seven hour job, for ONE KID, I would never sit for them again! I wouldn't do it for $30! (Unless the family was in desperate need of help) she was just so pretentious it made me so mad! She wants someone to take advantage of, or she'd pay that MINIMUM of four dollars an hour - which is less than most waiters make - to watch two of her CHILDREN. Humbug!
Wow, that's a horrible rate of pay. I was getting the same money in 1988 to watch two older children for half that amount of time. I can't imagine who would be able to afford to care for a baby for that amount of money--I mean, if you were taking care of a bunch of older kids at the same rate of pay, you could do all right for yourself, but a baby takes up all your attention, really. Maybe a senior who can't get another job might be willing, or a twelve-year-old who doesn't know how much babysitting is supposed to cost, but wow. The nerve, right?
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