Babysitters?

[AMP]

I will be having one of the neighbor girls come over to babysit my 5yo from time to time. (One is 14, the other is 12, they live right next door.) When you have a teenager of that age sit for your kids, what do you make available for them? Snacks/drinks, the TV (no computer, so no worries there)? How do you instruct your child? What do you make available for your child to do? Going $ amount? How late is too late (we're talking Friday or Sat nights, and perhaps Sunday afternoons, never a school night), especially if she lives right next door?

Both girls teach/volunteered the last few summers at camps for younger children, have CPR training certificates, and are polite, respectful, and outgoing (none of the usual teenage shyness around adults) and their parents are very nice.

My little guy is content to read and draw, watch a movie, occasionally ride his scooter - he is not a little hellion. I never left him with anyone except his grandmother before. I don't think he will have problems, but I might!

 

[Hot N Bothered]

I doubt the going rate in Jersey is the same as Maryland. And in Md, you've got to be 13 to babysit. But different states, different rules.

But given their attributes and experience, they seem to be worth a few extra bucks. Ask them what they charge. If they are as upstanding as you think they are, they won't cheat you, they want the repeat business.