Poll about babysitters

kreeper611 · December 2011

When you hire a babysitter who will be there during a meal time (lunch or dinner), do you provide food?

Does this change if you have kids who won't eat a meal (like an infant who just has a bottle)?

Kimmer123 · December 2011

I would provide food. If it was just an infant, I would probably leave money for them to order a pizza.

starlettedir · December 2011

I do but I have mine on a 10 week + hold from 5-11 or so

EDIT: I asked her what she wanted and we keep those things in hand at all time

houstonkdw · December 2011

I do provide a meal. Either a frozen pizza she can cook for her and my to kids or at least some cash to order one. Something along those lines.

melrrr · December 2011

I try to have something, but she often eats before she comes or brings something to snack on.

AmyDrinkie · December 2011

I tell them they're welcome to anything in the kitchen, and I try to keep things around that I know they like. I don't leave $ for pizza though.

rayskit10 · December 2011

Yes, if the sitter comes before 6 pm (which is pretty much always), we provide dinner. It varies, depending on the night- order a pizza for her and the boys, or she'll make up some mac'n'cheese. She can also help herself to anything in the house but we don't keep a ton of snacks.

kreeper611 · December 2011

My sister babysat for two different families recently. Both times getting there around 5:30/6. The first time she showed up and the mom asked if she'd packed snacks because they had no food in the house. The second family told her to bring snacks or eat before. I thought it was odd but wondered if that was just me.

odear · December 2011

kreeper611:
My sister babysat for two different families recently. Both times getting there around 5:30/6. The first time she showed up and the mom asked if she'd packed snacks because they had no food in the house. The second family told her to bring snacks or eat before. I thought it was odd but wondered if that was just me.

I think that is odd. I am sure we will always have food available, but I don't see leaving an extra $20 to order pizza.

michellebelle · December 2011

It depends on the sitter for me.

If it is my teenage sitter I will give her money for pizza or will just get one of those bake and serve casseroles and pull it out of the oven myself before we leave so I can turn the oven off. I sort of prefer her to stay away from the stove/oven though so pizza is better if I cannot make the dinner ahead of time.

If it is my preferred sitter, a grandma, I usually start dinner on the stove but she finishes it - AND she cleans up all the dishes including pots and pans. I don't have to start dinner though - I could just tell her what I want her to fix and she'd happily do it and get Maddie involved in the process. And she cleans any other dishes that were in the sink before she got there. And she wipes down the kitchen and straightens up the living room beyond what she and Maddie mess up while she is there. I love her. She even charges less than the teenage sitter for so much more service. Have i said I love her?

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