Raising money w/o a job for college

Oldernotwiser

Charley.christian wrote: »

I'm not allowed to baby sit - my mum wouldn't allow it. I've talked to her about it and she was like "don't be silly get a proper job" And she doesnt trust me

What a very strange post - could you possibly explain?

wannabedebtfree_2

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

What a very strange post - could you possibly explain?

I agree, why doesn't your mom trust you at 17 to be babysitting when you are doing a course in childcare?

I started babysitting for neighbours when I was around 13, I had lots of work and never had any problems/crisis - one of them I used to stay over-night quite often so the single mom could stay at her friends and not have to come home drunk/hungover to be woken at 5am by her daughter that wanted to sit and watch videos....I had that joy instead :rotfl:

Admittedly that was before people considered it improper to do that (this was 20 years ago) but I was very grown up and people trusted me, I had younger siblings so had lots of hands on experience of little children, and this was even before mobile phones, so there's no way I could have got hold of parents even if I'd wanted to!

Not once did anything bad happen, I'd sit and watch a movie with the kids, get them into bed, and then settle down on the sofa with a book or a magazine or just sit and watch telly...not a lot could go wrong really! But then I would NEVER EVER have had friends/boyfriend round that would have distracted me from my 'duties', is that what your mom doesn't trust you about??

Charley.christian

No she just doesn't trust me.
she has NO trust in me what so ever.
she thinks other people are going to be rapists or something

ViolaLass

Charley.christian wrote: »

No she just doesn't trust me.
she has NO trust in me what so ever.
she thinks other people are going to be rapists or something

What other people? Perhaps you could suggest that she comes with you to the first appointment?

As others have said, if you're going to study childcare then getting babysitting experience makes a lot of sense.

Charley.christian

I know, I've tried telling my mum that if i do childcare i need to do experience.
I'll just talk to her , maybe i can babysit for church members?