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Personally I think 12 is a tad young to be baby sitting but I know that 12y.o. do it.
I think that he should put the kid to bed. AT the kids normal bed time. Even if that includes changes diapers or giving the kid a bath. To me if you cant trust the sitter 110% then don't have them. Get someone you do trust. Maybe I am too trusting, but I have never had any reason not to trust our sitters but they are always someone we know.
When you engage the baby sitter, you should tell them what you want done and how you want it done. We read to our kids after they go to bed. We tell our baby sitters that we want them to do the same. We tell them what time. We tell them what duties the kids have. We tell them what the kids have to do like bath/teeth/toilet/bed. We tell them if the kids are supposed to be doing homework, house work or whatever.
I would think for a 12y.o., they would not have much experience and you should be more precise than with an older sitter.
like some had earlier said in her write ....i would like to everyone know that age is but counting of number, the most paramount thing is the person in question be it 13,15, 18, 20 ......etc. once the person is mature and sensitive ...
if a 12yrs old is mature then its a good option to take ..
When I was 12 years old I had the corner on the entire babysitting industry in my neighborhood. I was very tall for my age, and I don't think the parents always realized how young I was, but I was the best sitter around and the kids always asked their parents for me.
I also took care of infants. I was the fourth of seven kids, and my mother taught me to change a diaper without sticking the baby and warm a bottle and rock a baby to sleep when my brother was born when I was eight (that was in the days of real diapers, with pins and rubber pants.) I got another baby brother to practice on when I was 11.
I babysat regularly for kids of all different ages from the time I was 12 until I was around 15 and got a job at a drycleaners off the books.
I'm really surprised by so many of these responses. Anytime you leave your child you're taking a risk. There's no one perfect babysitter no matter the age. There are no guarantees. You go with your gut and hope it doesn't fail you. I personally think not only do you need to consider how responsible the babysitter is but how well behaved and ready is your child. If you feel good with both of these you're more than likely not going to have a problem.
My mom left me with babysitters a lot when I was a kid. None were as young as 12, but they were all teenagers, 14-17 year old girls. They were expected to enforce bedtime. One sitter let me stay up late and I'll never forget how angry my mom was when she came home and saw me up. She never used that sitter again!
I remember sometimes I would test a new babysitter and see if I could get away with staying up past my bedtime. While I didn't like it when the sitter was firm, I felt respect for her if she was.
Do you think at a 13 age should be able her watch her brothers age 6 n 1 and a sister age 8 months old she loves to help me with them . I have been letting her help me more with them.
Do you think at a 13 age should be able her watch her brothers age 6 n 1 and a sister age 8 months old she loves to help me with them . I have been letting her help me more with them.
You will get more responses if you start a new thread. Do I understand right, that the siblings are 6, 1, and 8 months? In any case, it depends on the kids, both the one babysitting, and the ones she is watching, and how long you will be gone. I'd probably leave a 13 year old with maybe one younger sibling, but maybe not 3, especially with 2 being so young.
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