Babysitters, What Weird Rule Did You Have To Follow?
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I hate when parents always let their kids win at everything. They need to learn to accept failure.
Those are usually the kids who yell "Timeout!" when they're about to be tagged.
Kids never hear those important character-building words "you lost" anymore. They're too fragile. I've seen kids cry at simple statements like that. You know what they tell kids who lose now? "You were the last winner." I saw it happen in the soccer club that i used to play in when i was a kid. There was no Cup match. There was no Final. Everyone played for fun, and we all got trophies at the end. Every kid wins, nobody loses.
Neighbors were like that. Daughter had a breakdown at my birthday because we were doing a craft and she got frustrated with it. I think her Mom finished it for her. She was a couple years older then me and it was making a bleach bottle into a piggy bank. Also she didn't want to ruin her new stick on nails so her Mom spoon fed her pudding. She was a bully who soaked me with the hose. Well water can feel like it's freezing and I was shivering. My mom was angry and her mom acted like it was fine.
I KNOW SO MANY OF THOSE KIDS
lol That's my sister
Im literally 12 and i have 5 older siblings and they are all girls and im the only boy and im the only one diciplined wth.
The peanut allergy kid sounds like the parents genuinely just wanted to ease the fear of the babysitter, but maybe have poor social skills and just couldn't articulate it un-creepily
Poor Choice of words without a doubt
yeah something my family would say for sure. we all have poor social skills and extreme impulsivity. my dad had an issue as a kid with biting chunks of glass off of cups. i was obsessed with eating things i was allergic to, because i was like genuinely addicted the the antihistamine response my mom says? idk.
That Nilla Wafer mom hid something in that box. Money or drugs or something like that. If it were me I would have checked to see if the box was sealed and snooped bc that's the fishiest thing ever
I thought the same thing,probably a baggie or even laced wafers
You know what? You're probably right
You’re right.
Or they’re drug cookies
Good call, I wouldn't have thought of that. Probably had other babysitters eat up all their sweets maybe? But Now this has me thinking and suspecting differently Lol.
I thought the "don't cuddle the baby" parents were just worries about the baby bonding with the sitter instead of its parents... that's rough.
naw thas a lodda damge
even then your baby will not suddenly forget their parents because they’re held by someone else for a couple hours a night, sheesh.
That story almost made me cry
Especially since the other kids weren’t allowed to lose, it sounds like she coddled her elder sons and not at all the youngest or something.
I get the feeling that the Fleetwood Mac parents were trying to raise their child to have an appreciation of Fleetwood Mac but forcing kids to listen to specific music almost always results in them hating it.
When I was a kid, every time we went to my grandparents house they would play nothing but ABBA. Every time. Now I just can't stand it.
my mom kept playing the flute to me starting from her pregnant belly until i was around 10-11. the faintest flute tone i can hear from miles and it drives me up the fuckin wall i just can't bear to listen to it
for me its the oposite, my dad would make us listen to queen and the beatles and that music makes me really nostalgic nowadays when i listen to it cause it reminds me of the roadtrips
for me, it’s the opposite. my jid was from lebanon and would listen to all these old arabic records when i visited him and now i love listening to them because it reminds me of just bein small and having no worries
Mamma Mia that sounds bad
ABBA DRIVES EVERYONE CRAZY
I just love how the narrator pronounces babysit-sounds like babbysit.
It's a robot...
It always makes me laugh
How is babby formed?
@@itsybitsybosmer How girl get pragnent?
Fryode - The Fried Diode when a girl and boy like each other...
I also had a diaper digger. We were at our wits end trying to make him stop. Every time he did it it always ended in a warm comfy bath. So instead I started bathing him in cold water, not excruciatingly cold just uncomfortably cold. After two cold baths he stopped doing it.
Lmao
Damn, that's smart
Honestly Pavlov-ing your kids seems like the best way to quickly and safely stop problem behaviours
That's pretty smart.
I love doing things like this with kids. Of course not because I like seeing them uncomfortable or anything but because it works so damn well and I think the whole "alright keep doing that and see what happens" concept is pretty funny
Some of these parents really want a maid and sitter all in one. That's rude lol. It's one thing to expect the sitter to clean up the dishes they used for dinner and tidy up the toys etc but vacuuming and hand washing underwear? Loooool ok
They need a nanny, not a baby sitter. Nannies will do everything.
in my opinion theres nothing wrong with it if they discuss it with the sitter before and pay them more than they would for normal baby sitting. the underwear one is weird tho
@@Mpearl8084 you know I never really thought about the difference. Thank you
@@pulsarnov4491 yes, if they DO pay her more and have an accordance BEFORE, she can, but usually these people want her to do all this at the same price as a babysitter
Have you ever read any Babysitters Club books? Book #94 ("Stacey McGill, Super Sitter") involves narrator Stacey taking a job. The mother is doubtful about it, saying Stacey is too young to handle it, but allows her to try for a week. She pays much more than the regular rate, but also asks Stacey to do some "light housekeeping", which Stacey agrees to as long as it doesn't interfere with babysitting. Whenever the mother comes home, she looks around as if she's trying to find something Stacey has done wrong. Then she asks for more work to be done in the next two weeks (with more money), and starts giving Stacey two pages of housekeeping, which means Stacey is really tired and can't get any of her schoolwork done, and she can't help the kids. At one point, the mother gets home and her son starts crying and saying Stacey isn't listening to him reading for homework, and she's pretty cold to Stacey. It gets even worse when her diabetic daughter's blood sugar drops dangerously low and Stacey has to take her to a doctor. The mother starts screaming at Stacey for not finishing things and blaming it on her age and how she's irresponsible and there's no excuse for not finishing. She does apologize after she finally lets Stacey talk, but still seems to expect Stacey to prove herself and get more done. Eventually, Stacey quits the job by saying she feels taken advantage of and that she's working so hard getting chores done that she can't pay enough attention to the kids. All valid points, but the client insists she's saying that because she's not mature enough to handle the job - even though she was getting all those things done and sacrificing all her free time and her grades for the job - her friends pointed out that she was a wreck. Point is, "light housekeeping" is not two pages of chores that means you're too busy to actually babysit. Cleaning up after the kids is important, but even Ann Martin says in her letter at the end of the book that you should get paid extra for chores.
I used to babysit this kid. Their parents made it very clear that the child was not allowed to be in the kitchen. They had two huge padlocks on the kitchen and all of the razors, scissors, sharp items in there. I asked why, because I thought it was weird. They said their kid has a problem with hurting people. The kid doesn't understand that people get hurt, so the kid would try to stab you to see if you got hurt. It was something about a mental disability plus the child not able to feel pain. I was horrified, but they paid really good money and I have a condition where I can't sleep unless taking meds, so I was fine. Just kept myself at the door of the kitchen. The kid was nice and seemed great. When the kid got older, they had to write everything in crayons. I wonder where that kid is now.
S Whaley idk why but I feel like he’s a serial killer now
Probably the man who threatened to kill the baby
Syndrome!
Probably crying alone in his mom's basement with last crayon to eat.
Wait, wait... so the spiderman villain thombstone can actually be real?
A lot of these are just straight up abuse.
I'd say about half of them are. Most of the rest are just really weird.
That's so true lol
Yeah like the no hot sauce one. I would die
And a lot of them are karens
The baby food story where they were ONLY allowed to feed the 1 year old from a freshly opened baby food jar was just wasteful. VERY wasteful!
probably an OCD or germ thing. like "if its open and exposed to the air for too long, its no good and you need to give them a new one"
Reverse grandma
It's actually very sound practice to not feed directly out of the jar... baby food is specially made to be easily digestible and saliva transferred from the spoon can actually make the leftover food in the jar break down. It's better to use a clean spoon to portion out some food into a cup and then feed the baby from that, rather than feeding directly from the jar.
I feel like this story was caused by the mom having a twisted comprehension of food safety measures and a lack of good problem solving skills.
My mom did this with my sister and she does many things similar (ex: throws away toilet paper when it's only halfway done, throws away the milk if it took more than 10 minutes to get home from the grocery store). It's annoying as heck especially when I can't get an allowance because she says we're too poor but then does this crap
my little brother is 1 too, and if he didn't finish eating the baby food, then i'd put it in the fridge and he'll eat it later
Speak to the kids in a specific language and just that one (not their native language) because the parents said they were bilingual. The kids were 3 an 5 and clearly not bilingual. I had to explain to them and I would try, but if they were about to jump into the pool, I would make sure to shout in their native language 😂
Maybe trying to teach them another language? Best way to learn a new one is to hear it constantly.
😂
I've met a 5yo kid who can fluently speak 5 languages and her parents never emphasise which language we should use when speaking with her... so I use a language she dont know lol(and occasional English & Malay) and today, a year later, her parents are teaching her that language(Japanese) because she interested in it since I conversed with her in that language😳
My neighbors children are all about 3-5 years old and they all speak three languages fluently. English, dutch and papiamentu (maybe even spanish i’m not sure). Idk how tho 4 year old me was still trying to balance the light switch and watch the light of the fridge turn off...
@@sankajuice what I find really fascinating is that those two things can coexist! At that age your brain is the most primed and ready to absorb and learn language, but your motor skills are still pretty fresh and weak XD
I nanny for a family whose 5 year old boy likes ketchup on everything, and made it a point to tell me that I have to remember to put it on his food. They have an entire shelf in their pantry full of Heinz. Every morning he eats a peanut butter and ketchup sandwich or chocolate and ketchup oatmeal, and throughout the day he’ll eat anything as long as it’s smothered in his favorite tomato condiment. I accidentally handed him a popsicle without a container of ketchup to dip it in and he had a full blown meltdown. He’s the cutest, sweetest little kid you’ll ever meet but he does *not* play when it comes to his ketchup.
supersigma His teeth are gonna rot from the sugar in ketchup
That’s…not healthy. They should stop.
THHE KETCHUP!
Is it me as a wee lad?
He’s going to have diabetes at a young age if he keeps this up, also parents to blame a lot here for giving into him.
Why you should let your kids do art everyday:
1) it’s good for their physical development as it helps them to develop their fine motor skills like writing.
2) it is good for their emotional development because it allows them to explore their emotions
3) it is good for their Cognitive development because it makes the think and as they get older they will learn to draw/paint shapes and people, so will develop their creativity.
4) it helps with their social development because emotional and social development are equally linked to each other and you can’t develop a child’s emotional development without developing their social development so see point number 1 for social.
5) this will help with their Communication and Language development because they will be explaining what they are doing, what colours they are using and if they are making it for someone as well as who they are making their art for.
Basically art is helpful for a child’s holistic development, doing it everyday is going to really help with children’s development.
Mia Sancto poop art?
I'm suspended for drawing pictures of shootings and schools on fire they thought I would be a danger. The drawings were how I felt
Say that to Adolf Hitler.......
Those last girls are going to be super competitive when they grow up...
Or not know how to take losses as they'd never learned.
I hate those snowflake parents
Competition and learning how to lose with grace are important life skills
I’m an only child but my parents would race me and play board games with me. I lost most of the time.
Losing is a part of life, those parents are fools
I forgot the WSJ also means the Wall Street Journal and I thought they had the Weekly Shonen Jump lying around
Every time I see WSJ my brain sees SJW...throws me every time lol
LMAO
If it was Shonen Jump, then they'e great parents.
Ah yes us weebs are the most cultured
TheRandyalex as they should
The mom who wouldn’t let her kids in the bathroom... man wtf
Id just poo and pee on their floor for the next day, and not tell them. Then they would wonder why it stinks.
Like some people’s pets are allowed into the bathrooms
@@AppleBottomJ She was talking about the mom who didn't care that her kids were about to be killed by a crazed maniac. Some people shouldn't be parents, but this lady genuinely doesn't deserve life.
The one where the man threatened to kill his baby, and they wouldn't let the kids into bathroom was just...
Did they want the kids to get hurt?
DID THEY?!
Just... It hits a little close to home.
Aww. Sorry, luv. Are you okay? I’m always welcome to talk.
I'm so sorry if something simialer like that happend to you (english is hard wtf-)
Sorry if you had a similar experience, I would be happy to try to cheer you up in the hard times if you want.
Don’t give up kiddo, you can make it out alive.
Aww I'm sorry that you had to go through that no one should ever treat anything like that.
"If Brady is sitting by the door he just needs to be let out, he'll come back in a few minutes..." Cracked up for a good few second after that punchline....
If someone tried to get me to babysit AND clean their house, I'd be like, "My house cleaning fee is an extra $30 per hour."
If you was my babysitter....you could make me clean the house and I would still let you take the credit and get paid for it!
She hid something important in that nilla wafer box.
Yes or the poison is already on them!
i wouldve looked inside of it
it was meth for sure
Something criminal.
I'm wondering why she just didnt hide it in her closet or something lol.
My mom had to limit my reading time as a kid lol. I’d go to bed at 8 and read. Well if the book was particularly good, I would read for HOURS. Like a 2 am my mom would come in and still find me reading. Albeit struggling to keep my eyes open.
same haha
Rachel Freeman LoL I did that too! One morning my mom came into my room to wake me up for school, I had a book lying flat on my face.
Yes ....I used to do that....I would study during the day for exams and at night I'd read other books till 4 am ......this went on for a month or so......ruined my eyesight lol
God even if you're grounded you should still be allowed to go use the toilet.
@Kayden Kneeland It absolutely is abuse.
Thats clean cut abuse.
My dog could teach those parents about bathroom privileges, if you don't let them go then don't act suprised when they crap on the carpet.
That’s abuse
That’s abuse. It’s a bodily function that needs to be done. It’s like eating or drinking, it needs to be done
My friend made a joke when her sister was being babysat, and made up a rule to scare the babysitter, “don’t open the bag in the closet” and apparently the babysitter opened it and she was traumatized. But there was nothing in the bag. What the hell happened?
The bag certainly contained a *sacrifice for the gods.*
It was poop
the duality of these two replies
@@wingedfeline5379 you misunderstand. It was BOTH
Just a fun fact; I sat for these 3 neglected kids for a few months and used to take all the mattresses and couches (take the cushions off too) and build maze forts for them to play tag in. Secret doors and all. Used a ton of sheets and blankets lol folded everything and put stuff back every night before the mom got home.
Is anyone going to mention the kid who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge? Idk man, that one got to me
I wasn’t allowed to tell the kid “no” to anything. He could do anything he wanted (he was 7) from use the oven and sharp knives, leave the house to go to a friends house, cuss me out, etc.... the Mom believed this way he would learn lessons. Anytime I told him not to do something he would call his mom on his Apple Watch at work and I’d get a lecture on freedom of choice.
Lol if that were me , once he called his mother and I would have told her "Ok well if he can just do whatever he wants anyway then what's the fucking point of me being here?" Then just left.
I would make the parents sign a waiver so they can't prosecute you in the event of "accidents"
And you stayed for that? Whew you must have patience lol
@@1Rose_ SURE YOU DID
@@avahamlincoln874 It depends on your opinion, I think I turned out "Alright" but then again you think whatever you want!
I remember when I used to babysit for a single mum she asked if I could stay the night with her son as she worked nights (she worked at a brothel) and so I agreed because I was afraid of the people she might ask to mind her son. The nights turned out ok. I made it fun for her son as much as I could and I’d fall asleep next to him on his bed as he had trouble sleeping most nights. One morning the mother came home with a guy and they had full blown sex and it woke her son up. He said to me, “my mum always brings boys over and they bump into the walls.. I think they hurt my mummy” I couldn’t help but shed a tear because this wasn’t a thing a 3 year old should hear nor say for that matter. It got to the point where I requested if he could come to my house as I lived with my mum and I’d drop him off the next day. He loved doing this and he used to ask me if this was going to be his new home. I was puzzled to why he would have asked me this and he said that the boys his mum brings over never like him and he doesn’t like living at home and wanted me to be his new mum instead. When I had to drop him off he would cry and ask to stay another night. Of course the mother wouldn’t care. She loved not having to worry about him so she would tell him of course you can stay there (without asking me). At one point I had her son for over 2 weeks. I got to the stage where I wanted to call child protection because I thought she had abandoned her son on me. I was 18 during this too.. his number finally answered my calls, she went on a 2 week bender with friends over seas.. she got him back and it was the last time I had ever seen him, she told me a mutual friend of ours was going to live with her so she would now take care of him. A week goes by and this mutual friend I were talking, she took out a crack pipe and said she had to disgard it because she had her boyfriend over and he had left it. I wasn’t happy, because now there was someone taking care of him who brought over someone taking drugs so I made his mother aware of the situation. She was fuming and kicked this friend out. Fast forward a year and a half, I had my own baby girl and I went to go and visit them, in hopes that they still lived there. They were and I loved seeing her little boy once more. She was surprised to see that I had a baby girl and I asked her how she was going and her soon too. She told me she got Into contact with her sons dad and that they were going to go live with him. It’s been almost 10 years since then. I think about him all the time, wondering if he is ok and what he is like as a teenager.
I don’t know why I typed all this. Maybe it’s the topic of this video lol. I hope one day I hear something about them.
I think you definitely should have called CPS
When I was in high school I would babysit a girl with special needs, her mom told me to not show her any movies with magic or spells because she thought it was for reals. I put her finding Nemo and the mom went crazy, because her daughter wanted talking fish. I felt bad but yeah after that she never called me or paid me...
Damn, reminds me of that time I watched little mermaid and was convinced I was actually a mer-person. I was 6. And yes, I'm actually special needs but not mentally, just have a physical disability. But hey, who needs a wheelchair when you're vibing in the ocean 😳
@@jessie7224 Thats actually really cute! I would pretend i had super powers and was amazed when wind would make leafs move because i thought it was me lol. No tbis girl would throw huge tantrums because the mom wouldn't understand what she wanted.& the mom wanted to avoid that. I believe she was like 4 years old mentally. I really dont remember :(
@@jessie7224 I went through a phase in like 1st grade where first I was a vampire, then a werewolf, then some other crearure that some kid told me about and I couldn't remember the name of, then a fairy. Idk man I'm pretty sure it was just my friend that I had at the time
I might be being dumb but in that case... what movies CAN she watch?! Like, there isn’t one disney film without supernatural features wow
@@tealwashablemarker8886 The past 3 Disney Channel DComs (including that one coming out next week) had science fiction or magic. What is she supposed to watch then?
I was babysitting a 3 year old who was still in diapers so I potty trained him, took me 2 days. Then I found out that as soon as they came home they would put him back into a diaper. My mother went over and talked to her. Their 10 year old and 5 year old daughters still wore diapers at night. Oh, and the 3 year old still slept in a crib. They were older parents.
More to the point, they were CRAZY parents.
Omg I feel you on this one. Daycare worker for almost 10 years, I had so many parents that wouldn't keep up with toilet training. The second they got home it was a diaper, with no attempts to send them to the toilet. I understood if when picking up their toddler for me to put them a diaper/pull up because "we've got a long drive heading out of town right now, so we want to avoid any wet pants." But the pure laziness of not potty training your FIVE YEAR OLD NEUROTYPICAL CHILD just fucking floors me. (Not nap time train, but fully in baby diapers 24/7)
Oh man I get you, I was the one to potty train my youngest nephews. i finally got the youngest to consistently go on the baby toilet for #2 without crying (he didn't like going on the toilet & would literally hold it in the whole day till I gave him a diaper) they went to Arizona for less than a week. Came back & all my hard work has been undone and it's been a struggle to get them back on track. I blame their dad, he hates putting in the effort to take them to the toilet.
Ugh. Parents who don’t potty train or enforce potty training just look lazy to me. I get that some children obviously need diapers or pull ups for longer, but most children can be reasonably day potty trained around 2 years old. My mom used to complain that my sisters would wait too long at 2 lol always told us how she would start training as soon as we could walk around decently being that we were very poor and diapers are expensive.
I mean if the 10yo and 5yo were both bed-wetters, that's not weird. Pretty common actually. It's only bad if they are either not toilet trained at that age or if the parents still keep them in diapers even if the diapers are dry in the morning.
Parents I used to babysit for told me not to go into the back yard or let the kids go back there because the dog might have rabies. The kids ended up going outside and then locking me out there with the dog. Needless to say I have bad babysitting memories
Shit
if the dog might have rabies, you either take it to the vet or call animal control! you dont just say "oh thats not my problem" and leave it in the backyard!
@@PrincessAshley972 the only way to test a dog for rabies is to cut their head off and test the brain. I know, its morbid. They will typically quarantine and observe it first, and if it gives any signs of rabies... it gets tested.
@@Mpearl8084 Margot gib me what you smoke pls
@@mandarinablue8438 americanhumane.org/fact-sheet/rabies-facts-prevention-tips/
I have vet clinic experience, but since it seems so far fetch, here is a resource...
Not a rule but I was fired from a baby sitting job for having my ears pierced. The mother called me a whore when I arrived and told me to leave. They were a very religious family and didn't want their preteen daughters to have any ideas I guess.
What???? My mom got my ears pierced when I was 3mos old so I guess I was a 3month old whore lol
My sister got her ears pierced when she was 7. She a whore too?? Damn what a crazy woman
Well, I guess every girl in my family including me is a sinner.
My parents had something similar to that. They thought boys shouldn't have ear piercings and girls should. My sister was watching a video on TH-cam, and most of the men in the video wore ear piercings. My mother complained and asked they were girls.
@@jgirl345 wtf 3 months that's a little weird
@@br-sb6vu it really isn't. I got it when I was a newborn, so does a lot of kids in my country. Ear piercings are not seen as sexual here (as a assume it is in wherever this ppl calling her a whore are from). Many babies here have cute little earrings, like a tiny pearl or something really cute.
9:31 fun fact: baby food is specially made to be easily digested, so the enzymes from the baby's saliva on the spoon will cause the leftover food in the jar to start to break down. My mom always used a clean spoon to take some food out of the jar to a cup, and then fed from the cup. As the girl in the post pointed out, baby food is expensive! We couldn't afford to waste it.
Adult foods can get borked this way too. It's not best practice to eat directly from a container of something like yogurt, etc, if you're not going to eat the whole thing at once.
Yes and parents are paranoid about their babies too. I also wouldn't be surprised if that rule only applied to babysitters not everyday life. Wasting a few pots of baby food is a small price to pay for peace of mind while you're not making the judgement calls :)
Fully agree.
@kayla I didn't mean paranoid in a bad way, I meant it as normal for a good parent. Whenever I left my daughter I always kept instructions as simple as possible and would lean to the side of caution eg if she had some milk then wanted more a wee while later they should grab a fresh bottle. It's an easier instruction than asking them to gauge whether it is part of the same feed (use same bottle) or should be considered a new feed (fresh bottle). It's less stressful for a babysitter too :)
The doctor asking if the babysitter could change his wife's tampon..Just when you thought you've heard it all?
When the lady said don't tickle her children because the get boners and start having insest
I’m really intrigued by the idea of parents presenting themselves as the authority, but also having someone who can act as the “good cop” in their place
the kid I babysit constantly calls me names (idiot, stupid, "I hate you"), hits me, pulls knives out and threatens to stab me, and throws super stressful tantrums. he has locked me outside in the heat before. honestly it's only been 2 months but that child has broken my spirits. Yet he always demands pokemon cards and ice cream and to snoop in my bags. I never get paid back for the money I spend on him as encouraged by the parent. If I didnt need the money so bad (my current employer cut my hours to like an hour and a half a day instead of 8 bc of covid) I would just throw the towel in :/
Call the police or something if that kid is threatening you with knives. Stop babysitting the kid.
Cops, NOW!
You should call the cops. I know you need money but even though they are kids they can be "Arrested" Because that's attempted murder, assault, or "You feel your life was in danger".
My parents had a Fleetwood Mac CD which I loved willingly listening to as a kid but forcing a kid to watch a concert or listen to your music is weird. Also, if they don't want to, that will just result in them hating your music.
Yes I hate almost any classic rock song, I can name many of them in the first 2 seconds.
Listening to them all day every day gets old when you’re 4 let alone more than a decade after that
I was forced to listen to country at my moms, but at my dad’s, my father would go into the basement to listen to his stuff, and he’d say, “come and listen with me if you want, you don’t have to.” As a result, I hate country music
People should not live through their kids like this, let them develop their own taste instead of forcing them into your mould.
I've done a lot of babysitting, but I've never had any weird rules like these. I think the weirdest rule was really more of a lack of rules. I was to let the three girls to do basically whatever they wanted, and they could eat whatever they wanted. Basically the kids could do anything short of killing themselves or each other. The older two pretty much just wanted to play on their tablets/computers the whole time, and though I tried to get them to play a board game or something, but since they were allowed to do whatever they wanted, I couldn't really do anything about it. In theory, I could have been there only so somebody there would know what to do if the house burned down. The 4yo actually did want to play with me, though, so I wasn't just sitting there watching 3 girls play computer games for 4 hours.
Don’t feed the baby food straight from the jar, put it in a separate dish and then put the rest in the fridge for later. You don’t have to feed your baby one specific jar of food you can give them a meal of different flavors. They are babies not dogs they do like some variety.
Honestly, how would the parents know if a baby ate over a long period or time rather than periodically? If it were me if say "Wow. He was really hungry and just ate through that jar pretty quick."
I hope the person in the first story reported this situation to CPS!
Haha I used to get grounded from reading.
Maybe it's because I'm still young but I don't see any real harm in the first story can you explain your thought process? (I genuinely wanna know)
@@Shakera... This is a six year old child without a developmental disability, but they are CAUSING him to be developmentally delayed. He showed readiness and an ability to CHANGE HIS OWN DIAPER!!
Because of their laziness, they are causing a 6 year old to piss and shit himself.
Children of his age should know about bodily autonomy and not be being wiped and diapered.
I am glad he seemed okay, but this will likely result in future shame and confusion.
I can try to further explain what is wrong with this practice. Sincere question for you, why do think this isn't harmful?
Shakera H. You don’t see anything wrong ?? Plz never have kids
@@Shakera... You don't see anything wrong? I advise you to go to therapy, or get sterilized once you're old enough. Now I'm genuinely curious, are you mentally alright?
@@sharkgirl3609
Hey, hey...I get what you're trying to say but aren't kind of dropping the gun? They weren't trying to cause a stir...they're just a bit naive...at least they were polite about it...
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I was 13 and babysitting this 4 yr old who was the adopted son of a friend of my mom. So this kid has some neurological problems and he is extremely aggressive due to childhood trauma and his bio mom not pushing when he was born.
Well, my mom's friend asked ME to TEACH HIM HOW TO COUNT.
Needless to say I came back home with a scratch on my face and my shirt ripped in half. Not bad though cause she paid me a lot more.
Yeah, there weren’t any Nilla Wafers in that box...
Crack?
I had to lock all five locks on the front door whenever the mom left the house. Every door had five locks on them
Angie Denny Mom probably had poorly controlled OCD. I used to have 2 locks on everything and had to lock, unlock, then lock again each one twice. Glad that fucker didn’t stick
I'm 17 and I was a babysitter for 3 years, my first time I was 14 and the kids mom told me to "Make sure He doesn't go outside, he doesn't leave his room, and don't let him go on any devices, I went inside his room to check on him, his bed was a blanket, his toys were a stick and papers and he had 3 shirts laying on the floor, I was concerned called my mom, and she told me to call the cops, let's just say it didn't end well for the mom
My brother's 9 and my mom still reads to him sometimes, as do I. It's a bonding moment and let's the kids relax. I know this because i have three younger brothers and have grown up reading bed time story's to them. Bonding.
No one:
The voice: bab-buh-sit
No one:
Not a single soul:
Reddit: babbisit
am i the only one who has no issue with the word babbysit? I mean, in the black country area in England (just below Birmingham - note, this is where coal mining and metal works happened) In the black country dialect, we say babby instead of baby and thats one of the more normal words
Donnies- hand
Spittle/fittle-food
bostin' - good (pronounced Boss-tin)
gis - give
Onesie was quite amusing
I remembered that time when i was 6 and my bro was 5, our parents sent me to a nanny's home. It was like,,, 12 in the afternoon and the nanny was still sleeping.
My lil bro climbed the countertop to mix himself a bottle of milk while I, an intellectual, poured her cat's food into a plate for us to eat.
That's how i still can remember that day 13 years later💀
I'm pet sitter, my weirdest rule was to talk to the pets, it's not that weird I talk to my cats
Growing up, I had a girl around my age that spent most of her time with her grandmom that lived across the street from me. The girl had a little sister and it was a rule that whenever one sister had a birthday, everyone invited to the party HAD to bring at least one gift for the other sister so she didnt cry and “feel left out”. Also they were taught that whenever they didnt want to do something or share anything they had to say “I have a mind of my own”. Long story short they NEVER wanted to share ANYTHING and none of the other kids on the block (including myself) would play games with them because if they lost, it always ended in them crying, throwing a fit, and running home to their grandmom. In response, the grandmom would have to take them to get a chicken nugget happy meal or ice cream, otherwise they wouldn't stop crying. Sometimes, the grandmom even had the AUDACITY to come complaining to the parents of the other kids because "we upset her granddaughter/s and made her cry" 🙄🙄🙄
when ever one of my sons had a b-day party.. for many years the invites went out to an equal amount of friends, and also said the party was for the other brother... no they weren't twins, but the younger one is oct 18th and the older one is oct 19th. generally i'd get one confused call a party, i would explain to the parent, no gift is required but it would be a mixed-age party. this is a valid reason to say a gift "might" be needed for the other child(never did). it was also cheaper on me, being a single mom to hold one party. once the older one hits the teens it stopped the joint parties.
Used to babysit my mom's co-worker's 6yo daughter while in high school. The one rule was that her daughter had to be asleep by 7:30. In bed by 7, that's normal. But she had to be *asleep* by 7:30 or it's my fault. Got a "warning" twice because when they got home around 9, their daughter was awake. I can't control that, ma'am.
When I was about 8 and younger, I remember we had a babysitter, she was quite young, I think her name was honey or Helen or something, but I can’t quite remember. Whenever my parents went out we were always allowed nesquick which is basically chocolate powder you put in milk to make it into a milkshake. It was probably the same as the story in this video, my parents wanted the babysitter to seem fun so they could go out more. It worked.
Unfortunately I moved away when I was 8, but I still consider that place my real home. I miss it. I haven’t seen my friends from there since we moved, which was nearly 6 years ago, Jesus. We visited once a year for about 4 years till my parents said we couldn’t go anymore, and during those 4 years, my older and younger sister were able to visit their friends but I wasn’t, because we lost contact.
I’m ranting- I’ll stop now
I once babysat for a very religious family. And they sad that at exactly 11:00am I had to lead the children in prayer or something . I wasn’t told about this until I arrived. The big problem with this is that I’m an atheist
P.s. I didn’t do the prayer, parents were not happy and got really mad that they allowed such a disgusting being into their holy home. They also refused to pay me so to say that I was pissed is an understatement.
I feel so bad for the baby who couldn’t get any cuddles :(
I couldn't put the kid in time out. The parents didn't believe that time outs worked for discipline and would rather have me tell them what the child did when they got home at night so they could scold him themselves...
I ended up bribing the kid with homemade sweets for when he was good.
The kid never got scolded when I was babysitting because he knew I would give him sweets for being good.
I baby sit too, but my mom was telling me about when she did. She watched these kids and their parents were usually sleeping because the father was a firefighter and the mom was a nurse. One day they were playing hide and seek and one kid hid in the toy box. (They ended up waking up the mom because they couldn’t find the kid.) Several hours later one of the other boys goes to get a toy out of the toy box, then he realizes his brother sleeping.
Making a poached egg is easy af?? Just put some vinegar in the water, stir it in a circle and then lower the egg in with a bowl.
I tried to mentally follow your instructions on my head and at the end there was a nearly raw egg sitting in a pool of slightly stirred vinegar water inside an ambiguously sized container with no heat whatsoever.
Arcanine-Espeon use common sense man get a pot
Fr how can you not make a poached egg 😂 I could make one at 14! Just put the egg in, splash some water over it every now and then, and take it out
@OurWonderfulWorld I am going to make a detailed description on how to make one because I cannot fathom how you've seen your grandmother make poached eggs and not understand how to make them yourself.
1. Fill a small pot 1/2 full with water.
2.Set on burner on high.
3. Crack your egg into a bowl, making sure not to break the yolk.
4. When the water in your pot starts to boil lightly (small bubbles floating to the surface ), add some white vinegar, about 1/4-1/3 cup depending on size of the pot.
5. Take a spoon and swirl the water around in one direction, this will help the egg white not branch out in the water.
6. Take your bowl with the egg in it and gently lower the bowl into the water and slip the egg out.
7. Let cook for 3-6 minutes or until whites are thoroughly cooked. Can be taken out earlier for gooyer yolk.
8. Use a wide spatula (ngl have no idea what this is called, it's like a flat strainer on a stick. Regular spatula with holes in it should work fine, too.) to gently scoop out the egg. Serve immediately.
Poached eggs are super uncommon in America, and they’re not usually served in restaurants either. You’ve only got sunny side up, over easy, scrambled or hard-boiled lol. So it makes sense to not know how to cook an egg a certain way when you’ve literally never seen or eaten an egg cooked that way.
The weirdest rules I had to follow while babysitting:
1. Kids must be put to bed with their Kindles-Yes, even the 18 month old.
2. I could not tell the kids no.
3. If they wanted something, I either had to give it to them or give them something else that they wanted.
4. I was to give them snacks whenever they asked.
These stories are funny / weird, but eh, I could handle 90% of these. I really should get into babysitting. I'm especially good with special needs / autistic children. Maybe it has something to do with being on the spectrum myself.
But just recently a lady visited my sister and I went out shopping and to lunch with them. She has twin girls who are autistic, one more so than the other. And within 10 minutes they were on either side of me talking up a storm and showing me things on their phones. I saw the mom look at us wide-eyed, then gestured towards me and whispered something to my sister. She told me later that she had said, "That is amazing - they NEVER talk to anyone like that. Only very close family."
So that was cool. :3 They friended me on FB and occasionally send me messages or funny videos they want me to watch. Sweet kids, tbh. I hope life treats them well.
I loved being babysat. It meant Mac and Cheese, tv, and someone to play with in the house. I had a ton of fun babysitters. Then when I was around 8 I got into speed drone racing and one time I watched it for an hour while I was being babysat
I mean ngl religious people are scary sometimes
ex. My mother, that darn C.L.E teacher (not the other one, she was basically an angel), literally every imam and priest I’ve seen wHY ARE THEY SO INTIMIDATING
It's the beard, it makes them intimidating
Ned flanders, etc
I mean I hate priests with a passion. Don't know why tho. Most are scumbags but not all so it's odd
The weirdest thing for me was when the parents asked for a picture of my driver's license, claiming they "forgot" to ask this during the interview, several weeks after I had already started babysitting for them.. To my knowledge, the kids already loved me, and I didn't do anything weird or strange for them to suddenly want a picture of my ID for "safety reasons". I was always very sweet with them and I thought I had gained their trust by then, ya know?
I ended up leaving them a year later because it was too exhausting. At the beginning, I was expected to babysit 2 of their children, which was alright because they were similar in age, but by the end of the year, they wanted me to start watching all 3 of their kids, which mind you, were in 3 completely different and complicated age groups (infant, toddler, preschooler) all of which needed my undivided attention and they never got along nor did they like the same things. It was like having to split myself into 3 of me, which I wasn't mentally prepared to do. I miss them though..
As a person who has been in some type of sales my whole life, the sometimes you gotta fire your client is so true..
Not quite babysitting but elder-sitting.
My neighbor is elderly and sometimes mom and I take care of her. Sometimes I swear we do a better than her appointed nurses (LOT of drama there, hard to explain. Even I don't know the full story).
One of her ex-nurses actually broke into the house one time to steal her medication while justifying it as "she didn't want her to overdose".
So the new rule our neighbor's niece set was unplug the garage, lock the windows, keep the dog door closed, make sure all the doors were locked, etc.
Basically I was in charge of making sure no one broke in.
I had to spend the night there once. And only once because hell no I wasn't doing that again. I was so paranoid of someone breaking in all noises startled me. Including her dog.
What was the plan had the ex-nurse broken in? I dunno!! Calling the police maybe? Fortunately it didn't happen.
I was at my aunt's house one time because my school had let out due to illness (I didn't have it in case anyone was wondering) and it was just my school. A woman dropped off her tiny lil baby who we'll call Levi because she had to work. Right before she left, she said, "Just make sure he doesn't poop on the floor. Also, don't brush his hair." That's so random, I thought. Turns out he screams like a fricking MANIAC when you put a comb to his tiny lil head.
These babysitters are of the same age as me and I dont even know how to cook, or carry a baby without getting very anxious I might drop him/her
My dad told me a few times I painted with poop as a toddler. Everytime he caught me I would just smile a toothless grin at him. Just happy 2 c him XD.
Seeing these makes me think I'm lucky to have such great parents...
6:21 yeah my mom kept doing that. except she was cheating on her husband for a mexican guy. she would take us (6yo brother, 9yo me) to his house, and we would *LITERALLY* wait 7 hours in her car for her to come out of his house. it was not fun. that was 5 years ago.
Bro I hope you're living with someone else now.
“Brady was a 4 yr old boy” killed me
The one with the CD player playing while she slept, although it seems a little strange, that is feeding her subconscious while she slept to make her confident and strong and happy, I dont see anything wrong with that
“That’s not even a whole show” Newsround is less than 10 minutes, yes it (15 mins) is a whole show, if that show is on CBBC or CBeebies. We have fairly short tv shows on kids tv in the UK.
wow a fellow British Mia
but also that is an exceptionally short amount of time still, there are some short kids shows but really the ones for their age would exceed 15 minutes surely
I babysat for this family who had 7 year old that was basically entirely independent, and 11 month old. The weirdest thing was that the dad was there all the time. He just didn't want to take care of the kids , he pretended the seven-year-old didn't even exist most of the time an actively irritated the eleven-month-old so she would be difficult to deal with for me. Then when his wife got home from her 12-hour shift and started to make dinner he insisted I stay because he didn't feel like watching his kid while his wife was home either. I knew the wife really well she barely ever got any sleep she worked constantly and when she wasn't working she was prepping meals for this lazy asshole to eat while not watching his children. I had to stop babysitting for them once he started making sexual advances toward me in a very persistent and suggestively violent way.
Edit: I started cleaning the kitchen a few days into it once I realized how much she had on her plate, and he husband immediately started yelling at her every time she made food because she "couldn't take care of her own home".
Not a babysitting story, but I think it can be funny. Last week my parents were planning to go to Florida to visit family. A day before our flight, my cousin gets tested positive for Covid, so my dad gets nervous and begs my mom that we don’t go. We almost cancel the flight, but my sister started whining saying that she wanted to go, so we didn’t cancel. The next day, we’re at the airport. We get on the plane, and not even 10 minutes after we get situated, the captain announces that the flight has been canceled. I was upset but I assumed it was for an important reason, so I stayed quiet. My sister on the other hand was furious and demanded that we book another flight immediately, and when my parents decided to go home she practically threw a fit. All she did was whine the rest of the day. My sister gets very aggressive when she’s mad, sometimes she even throws things. She acts like a 5 year old and it’s very annoying.
Now here’s the kicker
She is a 20 year old woman
A grown. Ass. Adult.
My older sister.
*Let that sink in...*
I think the parents who made the kid listen to the video of them saying "You're wonderful, yareyareyare" was them trying to use subliminal messages on the kid
[ If you don't know what that is, basically, audios that can change or add a certain aspect of yours, being that appearence, personality, add or retire am aspect from your life.
These audios repeat affirmations to your subconscious, that confirm you have, are, or is free from certain thing, people put that message repeatedly in low volume under a song, hidden in low opacity in images or you can just repeat that in your thinking.
This is just a fast explanation, if you're interest do more research.
I suck at explaining things, but hope you could've understand ^^
Edit: grammar
I used to help out at this farm (I'm at a different one now cuz it was too far away) and they had a cd player which played little stories they were about 4 and 7 I think and they were the sweetest family in the world and the cd player thing was awesome haha, this farm I'm at now has an awesome 11 yr old a 15 yr old who listens to the same music as me and a moody 17 yr old who has a new girlfriend every week (I'm 15)
Nobody cares but its chaotic so here ya go :)
Alright, this is a little comforting, I’m 17 and have pretty much raised my 3 siblings since I was 10 lol and I’m not like any of these parents so I did fine lol
I like when it says no but instead it’s “number”😆
0:33 what the hell is this some kind of subliminal
Yes and it's not that uncommon. Back in the 90's it was all the rage to 'send your children to sleep to the sound of whales' etc lol. TBH I don't find the parents using that tape weird at all, it was encouraged back then (IDK about now). The only time it could be weird is if they were awful to the kids during the day then using it to mess with their mind subliminally...but I doubt that was the case :)
When my daughter was little I never used a recording but I'd often stroke her hair and tell her what to dream about so she slept better. It was funny how often the next morning she'd tell the dream she had and it was the fun dream I 'planted'. Fairies, cool dragons, castles, princesses...she loved those kinds of things so I'd encourage her imagination and more importantly, a good dream she didn't want to wake from meant she slept better! :D
I had a parent bring her baby to my day home with every single item in the diaper bag wrapped in plastic and/or tin foil. She also insisted I keep her baby, who was very mobile, on a 3 by 3 foot blanket at all times and the other 5 children were absolutely forbidden to even touch this sacred blanket. There was more. Much more. But, this was over 30 years ago and, those two were the craziest ones I can recall right now.
I was too stunned to kick her to the curb immediately, so I had to call the agency and get them to remove this insane woman from my life ASAP. Thankfully, they acted fast.
LOL thats weird-
Story: I was 11 when my cousin came over. I had to babysit yet I didn’t mind. My parents promised me money although my golden heart offered to do it for free. He screamed Titanic and the rule was we had to play Titanic with him even if we didn’t want to ;-;
My house is practically like a daycare for babies, and one of the parents won't let us feed ut the food we have. Instead they told us to feed her cake that is steamed and this big hard fruit. Her parents never let her play toys or watch baby videos on youtube, just BOOKS. Also the baby is like 19 moths old-
AND they come to our house at like 7 am to drop off their child and come back to pick up their child at 8 pm-
Everyone ia taking about the nilla wafers, but there was one where a kid was in real danger. The man who was threatening to kill a baby, the person who was telling the story, there family, and himself? Am i the only one who remembers that?
Also, i don't care if i used the wrong there/they're/their.
oh my mom used to babysit for a family whose dad was in the military. one morning she was getting the kid’s breakfast and when she poured cereal into the kid’s bowls, the kids freaked out. she got yelled at by the dad later bc he pours the cereal into a measuring cup and gives them a specific amount of cereal each time
One time i was at this victorian mansion and this old couple had lost their son but they always made me “feed” this doll and guess what the food actually disappeared. Never went back some chick took over for me.
Did you also have to play music and read at an unreasonably loud volume?
Yeah and i couldnt have guests and they wanted me to kiss the doll goodnight yeah i had enough of that real quick
Methinks you ripped this from the plot of some sort of Halloween special
Purple Alien Gang thats the point 🤦♂️
@@flamingpi2245 It's from a movie called "The Boy" and I highly recommend it
As a kid I was locked in my room around the clock. (my older sister shared the room but only came in there at bedtime due to this) Only allowed to got to school (not including any after hours activities. even the chorus concerts that were for a grade), sometimes i could eat at the table with my sisters(rarely), and was only allowed to use the bathroom or take a bath when my aunt and uncle or one of my older siblings (who babysat all the time to the point of basically raising the rest of us) could be bothered to let me out. Sometimes i spent hours banging on my door begging to be let out to pee. Eventually I started just peeing in my dirty clothes basket... and let's not even mention the chronic constipation. They called it "grounding" and eventually they had "grounded" me from everything and taken everything out of my room besides my mattress and clothes. I even got grounded from books for a few weeks one time because "nothing else has worked" and "it's the only thing you enjoy"
Change the tampon? It’s not a diaper. Just wake her or leave her there,.
The onesie and poop thing, welcome to what autism parents have to deal with and usually it’s still happens past the age of two.
That poor five-year-old girl.
she was leaking over the bed and more importantly leaving a tampon in can kill you... ever heard of Toxic Shock Syndrome?
and also that’s quite the generalisation, plenty of autistic kids have no problem in those areas. i would say the majority but i don’t want to sound like i’m pretending to know everything lol.
@@tealwashablemarker8886 about the tampon thing, I think they were talking about walking her up to change it herself
Back when I was 15 I baby sat for my much older cousin. Her kids were 5 year old twins and acted completely animalistic. We agreed I would get $10 an hour as I would be watching them for 10+ hours a day. I thought she was going to work but it turns out she was going to hang out with a different guy each night. I never got payed and one time one the kids bit a chunk out of my arm and I had to go to the hospital. the mother told me it was my fault because I didn't get him chocolate, both kids are allergic. She didn't help my mom pay for the hospital visit nor the ambulance as being mauled by a 5 year old wasn't covered by my insurance.
"Single mom told me to use the bat by the door in case the father comes by."
That's dumb.
Use a golf club. Greater force to a smaller area.
Does being a older child who's a sixth grader, who decide to help their mother watch two 7 month old babies counted as baby sitting?
No.
NGL Kinda feeling attacked right now, I drank warm milk from a sippy cup until I was like twelve 😅
I once babysat some kids (ages 7 and 9) who weren't allowed to watch Nickelodeon or Disney Channel because "the shows are way too inappropriate for children." Instead I was told to encourage them to watch TLC or Cartoon Network
Nickelodeon and Disney Channel are specifically made for children
My sister is 7 and she still has to wear a diaper when she sleeps because of a medical condition but going the whole nine yards that's weird
That's totally different.
It wasn't really a rule, but back when i used to babysit, there was this one family who had two young boys. I can't remember their exact ages, but both were under 10. One or both of the parents would stay home as I watched the kids, maybe to clean or get work done. That's not so weird I guess but every so often the mom would come into the playroom to bring the kids snacks. A few years after I stopped babysitting, I saw the family again at a block party. They had hired a babysitter to watch the kids at the same block party so the parents could talk with the other adults. Maybe it's not as weird as I thought it was, but it was in my area.
It wasn’t for the kids, but for their huge dogs. If the dogs started knocking down the blinds, I was to let them outside. If they started to try to jump the fence, I was to spray them with a hose until they calmed down. Then I was to make them sit on the patio until dry
Like, ma’am, I’m here to watch your kids. Tell me how to watch your demon spawn. (they were not well behaved in the slightest)
This was recent.
My distant family wanted me to watch their 3 year old. I'm 16 and do online school, so i brought my laptop with me and did it. The kid was easygoing, but they had a rule that I wasn't allowed to watch TV shows that *I* liked, and I wasn't allowed to eat in front of their kid because it was "mean". Also, since I was their son's guest, I had to oblige him whenever he wanted to play trains. Whenever he wanted snacks. And eventually, it escalated to him finding my laptop, and wanting to play games on it. I said no, and the kid had a meltdown. It's a school laptop, so i didn't have any games to begin with. His mom didn't understand that and proceeded to tell me that I wasn't allowed to watch their kid anymore.
Okay... Fine with me.
When I was a child, my babysitter wouldn't let us say Godzilla. Instead, we had to say "Gonzilla". Yes, she was religious.
I’m a nanny. These kids are 4 and 6, they still drink from bottles. It’s not my place and I’m being payed well so I don’t bitch. At first I thought it was because the kids had be abused and she was trying to get the trama under control. Now it’s honestly because she’s to lazy to take them from them. The oldest didn’t have it for 3 days and was completely fine, she asked and got it right back. It makes me sad, because they are gonna get made fun of at school if any of the kids find out. They are also really disrespectful, and they don’t ever do anything I ask but we are working on it.
Edit- the kids dad was the one who abused them and the mom. They now live in a different state. A lot of these issues they have come their dad, but’s it’s a lot to deal with.
Changing a stranger's tampon sounds super uncomfortable
How will you know which exact way to pull it if you can't feel it
wait hol up it’s you again... FROM THE WARRIOR CATS VIDEOS THEN EXTENDING TO EVERYWHERE... HI
Funny thing, not exactly a rule... I was babysitting a little girl (like 18 months old maybe) and the mom told me that if the kid is crying and I've tried everything (changing, milk, toys, music, etc) to give her something orange to eat.
And guess what? IT. FREAKIN. WORKED. Every single time.