Needless to say, I didn't hire her.”-Marisa “I almost hired a babysitter until I called her reference who said, ‘Oh, she's fine, just don't talk politics.’ With a little more prodding, I discovered this seemingly lovely 22-year-old girl was a conspiracy theorist who believed that the government was responsible for 9/11. When I came home at sun up, he’d still be in the same nappy, soaking wet. “I had a night job so I would bathe my 1-year-old son and put him to sleep before the sitter came over. All was fine, but she never did that again.”-Julie So she went next door to the neighbors who tried to help her, and finally called me to come home from work and let her in about an hour later. When she tried to get back in, she realized she’d locked herself out of the house. “Our babysitter went to go put something in her car and left our 18-month-old in his playpen. She even answered their questions along the way! Oh and by the way, she was only 14.”-Rivka “We had one sitter who talked on her cell phone about every detail of fooling around with her boyfriend in front of our kids, who were 3 and 8. I didn't find it an improvement that our uninvited guests had a car full of empty liquor bottles!”-Katie When I mentioned what happened to the sitter’s mother, she claimed they were just ‘cleaning out’ her daughter’s car. They had polished off the better part of a vodka bottle, and our trash was littered with other empties. “We left our kids, 5, 3 and 2, with one babysitter and came home to three drunken teens. Her defense? ‘He bribed me!’ and I was like, ‘With what? Legos?’” –Christen “We came home at 11:30pm (earlier than we had said we would) to find our 4-year-old up watching TV with the babysitter. We came home the next day to find all the heat turned off, our baby half-naked and the oven on with the door open, all burners on the stove roaring in order to heat the apartment.”-Teri “My husband came home to find our 5-month-old son wearing several shirts, three pairs of pants and a jacket, swaddled tightly in a heavy blanket, sitting in his infant seat in front of a roaring fire, with the thermostat turned up to 85 degrees! We told the sitter that too much heat was dangerous for babies, and that just one set of clothes, a comfortable thermostat temperature and maybe a light blanket or sheet at naptime would suffice. She told me that there were human-sized black cats in the apartment across the street, sharpening their knives. “When my kids were 3 and 7, I had a babysitter who turned out to be schizophrenic. was it ‘normal’ for them to ask for ‘the back door action’ on their first romantic encounter.”-Chris With another, she asked me what local men's dating preferences were, i.e. With one, we found a vibrator in her room while it was being cleaned. They were all good in different ways, but a bit crazy, too. “When my son was 1 to 3, I went through four au pairs. Who's she trying to impress, my 6-year-old son?"- Jennifer "I had a babysitter show up for an interview and her jeans were cut so low that when she stretched to redo her hair (and how often do long-haired teenage girls redo their hair? Every ten minutes), her pubic hair showed over the top of her jeans! That was the end of her. The third day they wrote on their shirts with permanent marker. The second day they wrote on their hands. The first day they wrote on their forehead with a ball point pen. "Be a friend, come up and have a conversation with us."ĪBC News' Karma Allen contributed to this report."I put my identical twin boys in a daycare when they were 9 months old and the childcare workers couldn't tell them apart. "What it is to be a black man raising kids is very similar to what it is like to be a white man raising kids, or a white woman raising kids," Richards added. It's also about simply reaching out and making a connection, he said. "Let us live our lives and stop calling the cops on us for simply existing." They are here to stop crimes and to protect and serve," he said. "Law enforcement is not your personal valet. Richards agreed, adding that there needs to be a shift in the mentality some white people have toward police. "Something that simple, that's the only way you're going to nip it in the bud, if they're held accountable for that." "If they get to the point that they are going to call the police on somebody doing something legal, and the only reason they're calling is because he's black, they should be brought up on some type of charges, even if it's filing a false report," Jones said. Jones, who is now the New York representative for Blacks in Law Enforcement of America, said there must be clearer penalties for people who call the police on black people for simply existing.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |