Friend keeps asking me to babysit.

mrbrightside842

Stop putting your kids in childcare and start taking them around to her house with you when you go to work.

Nicki

merlin68 wrote: »

She wasn't going to pay me for babysitting.

:eek::eek:

In which case I agree she is taking the Mickey. Hopefully now you have spoken to her she'll get the message. If not, you might have to sack her as a client and find a new one to clean for who will be more respectful.

mizzbiz

Why would anyone think you would want to look after their kids for free while they are earning a living?! It's one thing to want to look after your own kids, but someone else's? In your free time? No way! I would do it as a one off, reciprocal show of friendship with my friends but not as a childcare solution!! She is taking advantage TBH. She should be embarrassed o ask!

Amara

mrbrightside842 wrote: »

Stop putting your kids in childcare and start taking them around to her house with you when you go to work.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Very good advice.

Spendless

Nicki wrote: »

Maybe she has misread the situation. I can imagine if I was employing a friend as a cleaner, I might try to offer her extra hours here and there, as I would assume she needed the money and would think this was helping out. Mind you, I'd take no for an answer!

This is hypothetical though as I don't employ any friends, but a previous cleaner offered to babysit for me whenever I needed, and I don't think it's all that uncommon for cleaners once they have got to know the family to offer this service, though obviously it's not compulsory to do so.

I wondered that too. Can I ask how old the kids are? When I was at college my tutor lived in 1 area but taught in another and it was a year when all the school hols were out of sync in neighbouring counties. I remember her telling me that she'd left her 2 kids (early secondary school age) home alone but her cleaner was there. From the cleaner's pov she may well have considered this to be asked to be an unpaid babysitter.

merlin68

4 years. I'm past all that mine are teenagers.