My experience with babysitting kids

[Guest guest]

Hi all......

I felt like a fish out of water, babysitting four kids today (through Friday

this week). I have never been a parent in any way, shape, or form. The idea of

changing a diaper is foreign to me (that's right, everyone - feel free to

snicker at me because I can take it like a man and rightfully so in jest).

Today taught me a lot. Taught me that I can be more than simply " an uncle " (as

I have read in many posts before in here), where I am around kids 1-2 hours and

that's it. Taught me that I can say " no " (when the parents of said kids have

given me the green light to say " no " ). I broke up one fight early this

afternoon, and one of the seven-year olds cried because he was not going to get

his way. I just let him cry and cry and cry until he cried no more. Then, he

was ok after that.

Just goes to show that kids need boundaries (even when their parents are not

around), and that they are not always going to get what they want. Furthermore,

it showed to myself that these kids could not push my buttons no matter how hard

they tried. By the way, no more cans of Pepsi this week for them. Yes, I know,

they will try to push my buttons by letting me know they each had a can

today/Monday. But, their parents will make it known they are not allowed to

have any cans (plus, I figure I can hide the Pepsi while they are asleep

tomorrow morning and they'll never know what happened - if kids can be

mischevious, so can I in a good way).

Well time for me to go for now. Tomorrow morning comes very early and another

day of babysitting.

Later taters,