But even when you find a sitter you totally trust, you still have to fill them in on your family’s specific rules and preferences because, well, every family is its own unique universe.
One sitter learned this the hard way after a misunderstanding with two kids she was looking after sparked major drama with their mom.
“I 19f put up an ad for babysitting and have babysat lots of different families’ children and have been babysitting for 2 years,” she explained.
She went on to describe her latest gig, saying:
“This new family asked me to babysit their 2 children,” and shared that she agreed to look after a 9-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl.
“They were really well behaved kids.”
“When I asked what they wanted to eat they asked for chicken nugget happy meals. Since they were so well behaved I decided to buy them the happy meals they wanted,” OP wrote.
“The problem with that is they are vegetarian which their mom had not told me, if I was aware I would have not fed them meat.”
OP added, “I had babysat for vegetarians before and made sure to respect their vegetarian diet and didn’t even eat meat while babysitting for the families.”
According to OP, the mom then “started screaming that I’m horrible for allowing her children to eat dead corpses and yelling at her children for eating the meat.”
The fault seems to lie with the mom for not informing the sitter of this major dietary preference.
The mom even threatened to “take me to court” over the supposed “emotional damage” if OP didn’t pay up $600.