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Friend keeps asking me to babysit.

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  • mrbrightside842
    mrbrightside842 Posts: 1,317 Forumite
    Stop putting your kids in childcare and start taking them around to her house with you when you go to work.
  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
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    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
    mizzbiz Posts: 1,434 Forumite
    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!
    I'll have some cheese please, bob.
  • Amara
    Amara Posts: 2,176 Forumite
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    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
    Spendless Posts: 25,144 Forumite
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    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
    merlin68 Posts: 2,405 Forumite
    4 years. I'm past all that mine are teenagers.
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