Babysitting Memories

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I was reading a thread on how much people were paying for babysitting and thought it would make a great blog post.

I understand the going rate is between $2 and $5 per child per hour.

I would love to read how much you pay by comments.

I made a lot of money in my teens babysitting and I receive a $1 an hour, regardless how many children there were. I think minimum wage was around $3 back then.

So considering inflation, and rounding minimum wage down to $7 for calculation purposes, one-third of minimum wage is $2.33.

Thinking about my babysitting days in high school brings back fond memories.  I had one family with four girls and every time I came to babysit, children from the block would come and play games with me in the yard.

I remember babysitting for a single woman with two handicapped children every Thursday night to allow her time to go our and give her a break from her children.  One of them had to be helped into bed from a wheelchair, but most times they were already in bed when I got there, so I mostly did homework and read while at her home.  I remember that she had Gone with the Wind on her bookshelf and I read the entire book at her house!  I watched the movie later and was glad I had read the book first.

I remember working at McDonald's and getting my weekly schedule at a certain time each week, coming home, and the phone to be ringing off the hook to book me to babysit before my time was taken.

I babysat every waking moment that I wasn't working at McDonald's my senior year of school.

I never spent $1 of the money I made babysitting.  I saved every $1 and that is what got me through the first year of college.

I remember when the children I used to babysit started attending college themselves and how old that made me feel!  Then they started having babies of their own and I felt as old as a Grandma, even though I was not.