Posted on 11/12/2022 9:06:50 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Taking on a paid role as a babysitter is a rite of passage for many teens eager to take on added responsibility and earn some cash.
But a young babysitter took drastic action after the parents of her young charges failed to come home at the designated time, concocting a story that their garage was being broken into.
Now, after she was taken to task by the children's mother, she has asked the internet if she was in the wrong.....
"I asked how late they would need me and if I should pack an overnight bag if they were going to be staying out all night," she wrote.
"They said that they would be home by midnight. So I checked with my dad if that was okay because he is my ride," she said, adding "he doesn't want me alone in a car with adults that he does not know."
"So my dad was there to pick me up at 11:50pm. The kids were all asleep and I was watching TV.
"I had texted them at 11pm to double check that they would be on time. The mum texted me back 'yes'.
"12.30pm they still aren't there. I texted again. No answer. I called my dad and he was pissed. Not at me."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
"This is XXXX Father, if you don't respond to the text I'm calling the police for child abandonment."
She was dealing with a couple drunks...and her dad was absolutely right to pick her up because one of these drunks would have driven her home.
So glad the father was there...
In this Social Media era, anybody who said “We’ll be home at midnight” and then shows up 2:30 am is going to have a hard time finding a babysitter ever again. Or at least one that doesn’t charge 2X or 3X the normal rate.
Yes, that is just silly.
Teen Father was right there already.
He should have just tried to contact Sittee Parents and then stayed with Teen in house until whenever.
MAYBE if nothing happened for hours, they could contact police. Not as an “emergency” but closer to missing persons and abandoned children.
Just stay with the daughter and keep watch until the parents returned, charge some overtime, think twice about sitting for them again. If they hadn’t returned by sunrise, notify the cops about the situation.
Good and appropriate response. Not something one should or usually has to deal with.
We moved into a nice “career” area in a burb of Houston. Our son was in first or second grade. He met and played with a little boy down the street. Unbeknownst to us the parents were having problems and the father asked if David could stay with us until he got home one evening. 6 came, 7, 8, no cell phones, no contact. David was becoming apoplectic. Children know when parents are not getting along and it scares them. David was scared. About 10 the guy showed up. I didn’t let him in but instead took him out in the back yard for a “talk”. Poor little David. I don’t know what became of him but I was not allowing the parent’s problem in our home.
There are a lot of people who should never be parents.
you just can't treat the babysitter like this....
They’re more concerned about their property than their children or the person they left to care for them.”
It’s true tho.
What was the parent’s response as to why they were so late?
“ What was the parent’s response as to why they were so late?”
Yes.
Exactly...
they needed to get their drunk asses home ON TIME. Ridiculous.
To be paid UP FRONT.
That too, but going incommunicado was totally asinine and irresponsible.
probably 2 drunk to hit “home” on their phone. as a parent, my kids would never work for them again.
No MAYBE about it. If these parents abandoned their children and refused contact, I would have called after one hour.
My single foray into babysitting was when my sister persuaded me to babysit a child for her good friend and also the child of another friend so they could go out and have some fun (both were divorced). My sister didn’t go.
When midnight came around they didn’t return. I put the children to bed and called my sister and she couldn’t get hold of them. Around 3am my sister called and said she had found the two women were arrested for being drunk. I stayed through noon the next day before they were released and returned home. My sister was furious at them at told them flat out they had to pay me for the entire time.
I did that job reluctantly as a favor to my sister and after that debacle I never would entertain babysitting ever again.
What a nightmare!!
Did they pay you time and a half, for the entire time??
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