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List to keep in Mind for your baby sitter
I am only 16yo and i do have the responsibility of looking after my nieces when my sister goes out. I wasn't sure at the start if i was able to do but i gave it a go and all
worked out fine.
It was easier that i was the aunt but the check list that my sister Te'na gave, could really apply to all baby sitter. She had left me a list that seemed like a book but at one stage or another i had to use it.
Because I'm only 16 i don't drive so she had left me a paper with contact names and number to call if in a emergency. Now the strangest thing that she wrote was this "if there is a life threatening situation PLEASE contact 000 and get medical assistant 1st then contact My Mum and then ring her(te'na)". I ask why this was wouldn't you want me to contact you first and she replied no, health and saftey of the child comes first and nearest person to come asap to help and then her to leave where ever she is.... So really the first thing she left was a contact list with numbers on it...
Then she left a routine list of what time they had to get there PJ'S on and what time they had to settle down and what time to get to bed. The other list was what they where allowed to have and what they weren't.
She has activities like there ABC at night where they get there treat and then brushing the teeth and off to bed,.
There was other lists to the locations of certain things like medical chest, medicine ect.
What im trying to get at is that if you leave good instructions for your baby sitter there shouldn't be any problems..Lay down the ground rules for baby sitter like i am not to answer the door to anyone beside family and even then i should have to because they have there own key to get in.
Phone calls to be answered and told that they are busy at the moment but ill pass on the message as soon as they have some free time.I would text my sister to let her that a certain person has rang.
She will also ask for me to call once the kids are asleep. The first couple of time she had gone out she rang like 20 to 30 times lol now she would ring about 30 mins after she leaves and then about 7pm and then the last call for the night when the kids have gone to sleep.
I will share something funny though her and id say most kids play her lol meaning when she leaves they do the screaming and the crying to the point the parents don't want to leave but by the time they have driven half way out of the drive way they are running around and not worried that there parents have gone.
These are the list i suggest to be left with a baby sitter:
Phone number list
emergency list
food list
allowed and not allowed list
routine list punishment list (meaning if the have time out and where and how long ect)
Things would change if the baby sitter did drive then different rules would come into play in a emergency.
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