We had a fun conversation on our way down to Bible study last night. Maddy was giving Meri some advice on babysitting.
Her ultimate advice was to memorize lectures Danny Tanner gives his daughters on the old tv show Full House and repeat them verbatim to the babysitting kids.
Oh course, you need to substitute their names in instead of DJ, Stephanie and Michelle...
Her summer babysitting kids adore that show and don't even notice when Maddy uses the exact same speeches on them when they mess up... She uses them on the kids at the daycare where she works too!
The speeches are universal and I probably should memorize them too.
Anything has to better than "Because I said so! If you can't do that, then go to bed!"
I remember my babysitting days and I'm not really sure if these speeches would have worked on the little brat I babysat down the road... I mean... What speech is appropriate for a buck nekkid little girl who chases you around the house swatting you with a fly swatter.
I just don't think Danny had that situation on the show.
2 comments:
I babysat once for 3 of the most awful kids that have ever been placed on this earth. They kept telling me that if I did anything that they didn't like they would make up something and tell their parents. I never went back even after the dad called and begged me why no one would babysit for them anymore. I made sure that word got around not to sit for them. And honestly, how could the dad not know that his kids were monsters!
OH Lord! I remember my babysitting days. One little girl, with curly blonde hair and long, thick eyelashes was bound and determined that she was going to cut both her hair and eyelashes...with a kitchen scissors. Then, her brother, a little monster-child, grabbed a kitchen knife once and my sister had to chase him around the table to get it away from him. We should have charged that family double. Or Triple. haha.
I think we should all write a book about our babysitting horror stories. LOL.
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