My recommendation-

LOL. Nice, Yoss

Yeah, but the wife was thinking more along the lines of this:

That's funny - I have still to find an Alice to help us out from time to time!


I was asked what the going rate is. I only know what my daughter typically charges.

Mother's helper: $3/hour (unless your gaggle of kids is larger than 2).

Babysitting: $5/hour (she's still in junior high - when she goes to high school, her rate will go up).

DTM
If you want an adult I can understand that totally! Especially with very young children. There are babysitting coops that trade hours of sitting- I never bothered with those but know people who relyed on them frequently.

I think the rates Amy quoted are good- I know highschool girls who charge 7 to 10 an hour.

Hey there, Yossi! Me and Swamp would be happy to watch the kiddos. We could learn 'em how to do alls kinds of important things like makin' your own toothpaste outta horses, cooking beans over a fire next to the out-house like God intended, and how to wrestle (or is it wrangle) the doggies. Ever since I got run off from the Firkin & Fox, I've made it my life's mission to teach at least some youngen' how to work for a living, and how to enjoy the real important things of life. Let you parents go off to your "sushi bars" and eat "pino" or some other such stuff. I say - John's Pizzas and Sing Along With Mitch - now that's a good night's clean fun.

Taking the risk of showing my age BUT I miss the simple nights of John's pizza and sing a long with Mitch. Those were the days when you only had a B&W 19" tv and could only get channels 2-5-7-9 11 and 32.

I'm with you, PM. There's nothing like showing a youngin' how to survive in the wild while their parents are away.

You know back in my day, my pappy used to lock me out of the house for months at a time - before I was old enough to go to school even. Well, it didn't hurt me none.

But that was a long time ago, and anyways, parents these days just don't understand about the old ways. They're only interested in all of their newfangled raw fish and fancy wine and stuff like that.

Well, heck, we had sashimi back in our day. It was called undercooked pork. And you ate it and you got trichinosis, and salmonella, and maybe a tapeworm too if you were lucky. And we didn't complain, no, we liked it that way. We loved it.

And you try to get a kid to eat raw pork or chicken these days... and they won't do it. This generation's gone soft, I tell ya.

Anyways, back to the subject at hand, I don't figure they'd appreciate you locking their youngin's out in the back yard all night while you set inside & eat pizza.

Besides, kids these days don't like to hang out with old fellers like us. They think we smell musty.

cool, thanks for the info....

I think some of you have officially scared DTM...and PM, I believe it's "wrassle".

Emy,

Back in my day, we couldn't afford to "wrassle". We couldn't afford another "a"... we had to make due with an "e" and a "t". Swamp though, he lived down by the river and he and his kin all had a whole pack of alphabet things. Alls I can say is: Bring the kids over to the home where I'm staying. The nurses let us stay up until almost 9:00 when... hey, I'm almost done! Leave me alone! I'm just postin

Sorry Em, but you'll have to excuse PM. He's had this tiny piece of brain lodged inside his skull for many years now... Sometimes it shifts around in there and he says strange things...

Pay no attention to the musty old guy.

If anyone is serious about a babysitter I can point you in the right direction.