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Would you send your child to a babysitter they don't know overnight?

Never

90%

[ 192 ]

I have done this and would never do it again

[ 6 ]

Yes

[ 13 ]

Total Votes : 211

amother

Vermilion

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 12:32 pm

amother Royalblue wrote:

Iv’e only ever sent a toddler to an overnight babysitter when I was in the hospital and I didn’t send to a stranger. I would never do that I think it’s too scary for them.

Where was your husband

amother

Offwhite

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 1:11 pm

amother Vermilion wrote:

Where was your husband

I assume in the hospital with her.

amother

Crocus

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 1:34 pm

amother OP wrote:

To clarify, I'm referring to a baby/toddler, not an older kid.

I wouldn't leave an older kid by a stranger either.

This is different than having a 'strange to the kids' babysitter overnight in your own home & all the kids are on schedule & together (which I still haven't done but have heard of).

amother

Offwhite

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 2:03 pm

How is sending to a sitter overnight, so different sending to a sitter for the day?

doodlesmom

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 2:20 pm

amother Offwhite wrote:

Vacation may very well be an emergency. May hashem never test you.

Vacation that’s an emergency is not a vacation. It’s an emergency mental health sitch.

amother

Offwhite

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 2:28 pm

doodlesmom wrote:

Vacation that’s an emergency is not a vacation. It’s an emergency mental health sitch.

Good point. We should make sure to take breaks so we shouldn't reach the point of it being an emergency.

writinggirl

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 4:20 pm

The only situation I could possibly think of that would warrant this is G-d forbid a death. Even if I suddenly went into labor, I would prefer that my husband not come with me and stay with my child rather than leave him with someone he doesn’t know.

amother

Oak

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 4:28 pm

When you are talking about someone they dont know what does that mean?

As in youve got no idea who they are, never seen them/met them?
Or just never left there before?

Whetever I would leave my child I would get to know the person first and get references etc.
Dont know if I would take my child there first but I wouldnt call it a stranger if Iv found out everything.

amother

Coffee

Tue, Dec 05 2023, 4:52 pm

amother Jean wrote:

I would NEVER. Im chassidish.
(I know people who do.)

Eta: never as in out of my free will. Emergencies excluded.

Same, barring an emergency.

amother

Catmint

Wed, Dec 06 2023, 11:37 am

I have left my toddler overnight, but by her babysitter that she went to every day that she knew and loved and that I trusted. I would never by a stranger that the kid never met before though that it traumatizing.

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