http://brettberk.com/2008/03/08/sitter-scare/ Sat, 12 May 2012 04:46:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://brettberk.com/2008/03/08/sitter-scare/comment-page-1/#comment-40 mcglory13 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:19:41 +0000 http://brettberk.com/2008/03/08/sitter-scare/#comment-40 Or perhaps it's not that we can't find nice babysitters we could trust, it's that we can't afford to pay them their well deserved $13 an hour and then have any money left to do anything. It's much cheaper to order pizza and watch a movie when the kid has gone to sleep. It's not like we don't miss going out. Or perhaps it’s not that we can’t find nice babysitters we could trust, it’s that we can’t afford to pay them their well deserved $13 an hour and then have any money left to do anything. It’s much cheaper to order pizza and watch a movie when the kid has gone to sleep. It’s not like we don’t miss going out.

]]> http://brettberk.com/2008/03/08/sitter-scare/comment-page-1/#comment-37 jenn Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:12:45 +0000 http://brettberk.com/2008/03/08/sitter-scare/#comment-37 I really hope this is a fear shared by a minority... I haven't run across it much in the blogosphere or on many parenting websites, but I'm really not surprised. I think this is just a symptom of the over-parenting crisis. People are uptight and paranoid and tend to leave their common sense at home. I really hope this is a fear shared by a minority… I haven’t run across it much in the blogosphere or on many parenting websites, but I’m really not surprised. I think this is just a symptom of the over-parenting crisis. People are uptight and paranoid and tend to leave their common sense at home.

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