Received Wednesday, August 13, 2008.
Babysitter needed immediately! (Lakewood/Tillicum)
Hello. I need a full time, permanent babysitter. Preferably in my home. I have a 19 month old boy to start. In September I will have a 3 yr old girl, a 6 yr old boy, and a 9 yr old girl. The younger two would be in your care full time. The older two would need a little help in the mornings for school and someone to be home when they get out of school, someone to make sure they do their homework. I can only afford to pay $10.00 p/day to start and going up to $25.00 p/day in September. I need someone from 6AM to 5-6PM, Monday - Friday. This is a serious position and I need someone immediately. Please e-mail or call, 253-579-****.
Original URL: http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/kid/794357273.html
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Puyallup Care Needed!! (Puyallup)
I am looking for someone that is willing to watch an adorable 3 y/o little boy. He is my world, so I need someone to love and care for him as if he were your own. I would prefer that you come to my house, being that I have another little one that is 6 (also cute as a button) that needs to be cared for on Wednesdays after school. My youngest is very active and needs to be taken to and from the YMCA for classes, so if you have one that also attends there than this would be perfect for you.. He would also need to be transported to preschool one day a week, I do the other day. I do compensate for gas and all meals are on me. SAHM's welcome and license care providers as well (as long as your price isn't outrageous). I can pay about 300 to 350 a month, the hours are easy, Mon-Thurs 8:30-3:30 on most days. I also compensate for extra work done around the house, but that is not a must. I need someone who reliable and not going to call or text in sick 12 hours before hand. My husband and I do give raises if your doing a good job. I need someone by the end of August or beginning of September. Please respond if interested. Oh and if your going to write to criticize my add, keep your opinion to yourself because I don't want to hear it....... Thanks Courtney
Original URL: http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/kid/791761343.html
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Babysitter Needed ASAP!!!! (Port Orchard-Bethel Burley)
Hiya I have 4 kids there ages are 10,8,18 months, and 4 months. I'm looking to try and go back to work here real shortly and am needing childcare for a couple of hours a day. It would be from about 3pm-till about 430-5pm or so, mon-fri. I would pay 10$ an hour to the right person, I live in port orchard and am looking for someone who doesn't live to far away since it will only be for a couple hours. Thanks a bunch Crystal
Original URL: http://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/kid/792596023.html
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Need Childcare in my Home 4 Days a Week (Puyallup/Graham)
I need someone Monday thru thursday from 10:30am -5pm in my home. I have 2 girls, a 28 month old and a 7 month old. I work from home and need someone here to care for my girls while I am shut-up in the office. I could pay $20/day. The appropriate person needs to have recent experience with infants and be willing to go on walks and play outside. You don't have to do any housework or anything. FYI: We have a chihuahua.
Original URL: http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/kid/793240665.html
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Temp Childcare (Auburn)
I have received an offer for a temporary position. The position is supposed to last 2 months and is full time M-F. I am looking for a mom who would maybe want to earn some extra money coming to my house to watch my children? I have 3 kids, and 2 of them will be in school shortly. The reason I need you to come to my place is because my 3 yr old only goes for half a day and I need someone to get her on and off the bus. I also have a 12 yr old (who needs very little supervision) and a 1 1/2 yr old. I have a good sized place with a fully fenced back yard so your little ones, as well as you, would be comfortable. I will provide meals. Hours would most likely be 7am - 5 or 5:30 pm depending on traffic. Since this is mainly for one child, I can pay $30/day ($150/wk). Please be reliable as I need to be reliable. References required. Please contact me for more details. This position would start on Monday.
Original URL: http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/kid/794129361.html
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Seeking SAHM To Care For Toddler (Madison Valley/Capitol Hill/Madrona)
I am in need of child care but, can not afford much. I can pay $20 per week. I will pay you every other week and will provide my own food and diapers. Time/Days: Tuesday 2-10 pm Wednesday 2-10 pm Saturday 2-10 pm Sunday 2-10 pm If your interested please contact me with your name and a brief description about yourself.
Original URL: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/kid/793793730.html
(Special Thanks to "The Fisherman's Wife")
40 comments:
wow some people are crazy. 350 per month? 20 per week? seriously. People need to do their research before they place adds.
I know, it's amazing how much the parents are willing to pay. BUT, I also see caregivers adverting on craigslist who say they charge $20 to $30 dollars a day! So maybe it's not that ridiculous is some parts on the country. That certainly would not fly her in San Francisco!
As for people who advertise that they only charge a low amount to babysit all day, they are likely providing care to several children in a group setting.
I think the ads in the original posting show how sad things are in our country -- that childcare on the whole is not set up better. There are so many working class people who need to work but cannot afford to pay for child care. This is the reality and these ads reflect this.
I think that at least to some extent, these ads are reproduced here on this website for the laugh factor, or perhaps the absurdity factor. But I hope we can also keep in mind that there are so many mothers that really need to work and need child care, and cannot afford it at all.
20 dollars a week? Huh? That's what a 10 year old would get as a weekly allowance for taking out the trash and emptying the dishwasher...These are all insane, but that one takes the cake.
I didn't think the one that was $10 an hour for just a couple hours a day was so bad... that would be perfect for someone looking for very part time work.
Yeah, $10 an hr. ain't bad at all. For ONE kid. But four???? No way!
Hi All- I found these all over the past 2 days in my local craigslist. I wasn't even truly looking for these. In NO part of Seattle would these even come close to an acceptable amount of money.
My personal feeling is that, it would be different if these people weren't demanding certain things. Saying that you want these hours, IN THEIR HOME ONLY, you can't bring your own kids and they want you to transport them to school, dance, etc. with no reimbursement for gas. I chose these ads because I feel that they demonstrated what I believe to be people who want top-notch childcare for the minimum amount of money, laugable in some cases.
Truly, I think that ANYONE can afford more than $20/ week for childcare, I don't care how little you make. My other thought is that these people who can only afford such a small amount should consider running a home daycare or something similar. There is a HUGE need for childcare in Seattle, especially for parents who want their children in home-based or centers. If you can only afford so little, expand your options.
Just my thoughts and opinions, I've been known to be wrong.
The Fisherman's Wife
I posted all of them for you except for one. I believe it was the one starting at $5 an hr., but when their DSHS kicked in they would pay $7 .... I think this Mom is trying to do her best and filing for the childcare subsidy told me that she at least wanted to try and pay a relatively fair wage. I know it was still way off but I kind of felt bad for her.
What is up with all the people wanting to pay only $20 bucks a week, wanting MOMS to work all hours, paying $10 an hour for 4 kids etc? Whoever found these, good job. I hope no one makes the mistake of taking these jobs.
Reply to: comm-795787833@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-13, 9:45PM EDT
We are looking for a caring individual, college educated, with at least 5 years experience in the childcare field. Ideal candidate will be in late 20s and single.
Duties will include:
Taking care of 5 mo triplets 11 months out of the year.
Hours are from when triplets wake up until they go to sleep. Weekdays you will need to be at home at night to address any sleep issues they may have.
Weekends are off but considered "On-call" If we need you we will expect you to be ready to go at a moments notice.
You will be in charge of their menu when they start on solid foods however our chef will prepare all food. You will feed all three and get them cleaned up.
We will expect you to keep them on a strict schedule.
You will be monitored occasionally while you are out. We have many friends in the area and they will be keeping an eye out for the kids.
We have monitors in the house as well.
You will be in charge of setting up classes. While they are napping we expect you to rest but also research activities and set up play dates.
You will travel with us around the world for work.
The pay is $2,000/week plus health insurance. You will have use of one of the family cars. (Note, this is a flat rate)
This job will be very tough and is not for the faint of heart. We do, however, expect someone who is loving and will gain the love and respect of our children. You can trust that the effort you put in will come back to you two-fold.
Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you.
Location: Manhattan
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$2000.00/wk ... to be on call 24/7 and have no life?
No, Thank you!
Reply to: comm-795626260@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-13, 7:40PM EDT
I Need a Nanny for my Kid Immediately!!
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O.k., haha! Quick & to the point!
Any takers? LOL
Oh I see... they are looking for a mother? Try birth control people!
MPP- I understand. That one kind of just fell into the same category and I was just so appalled that there were so many in such a short span.
My other inkling was that people are reading other people's posts and simply charging what they see other people offering. Just a thought.
The Fisherman's Wife
I hate to say it, but you're probably right. Very sad ....
Thank you so much for all of your help! :)
These are so sad. Except I think the couple of hours a day for $10.00 per hour might suit a responsible high school student who has little time but wants some spending money.
And the last one where they are paying $2000.00 per week might be great for the right person. Maybe somebody wants to work like a dog for a year or two to get really ahead, or to pay for college or college loans. People give their lives to the military for four years to get a college education paid for all the time...why not live in what must be fabulous circumstances, see the world, and come out with your education to any but the priciest of universities paid for? So they have to work really hard...what else would one expect for a 100K annual salary in childcare? And no living expenses to eat into the profiits either.
Here here fox in socks! I agree, while these posting are somewhat embarrasing to nannies that need to make a living wage, just as everyone else, they are still somewhat sad. OUR COUNTRY'S LEADERS NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT CHILDCARE!!!!!!!!
Although...from the perspective of a human being...instead of a potential nanny candidate, I have to point out on the other hand that it is really sad that these people were blessed with triplets and don't seem to want to have much,if anything, to do with raising them. When will they actually even see them? Nanny wakes them up, puts them to bed and is in charge of their diets and their entire activity/social calendar. How can th emom even really call herself a mom?
Mom
I hear you, and the Mom is honest about this job needing a special kind of person, not for the faint of heart? lol, but still, you'd have no life whatsoever. I'm sure there are a few that will jump at this job for the pay .... but really, how long will they last? It will be extremely grueling.
Mom,
Exactly. Where are the Parents in all of this? The Nanny is going to be busy as hell, and I don't see where the Mom and Dad fit into the picture.
Are we sure this triplet job is even real??? It sounds like one of those "too good to be true" shticks..... Hell.... I am a 28 yr old that might as well be 92 with my depressing social calandar... Ill do it....
I'm sorry about that lovesthegirls, but you don't want to put yourself through that. Especially if you have kids yourself. It wouldn't be fair to them.
MPP
I'll bet they have a lot of turnover with the job...but it's good cash for as long as one could manage to endure it.
Maybe some grandmotherly widow who loves kids and has no other life? Although I have often said that raising kids is for the young...'cause it wore me out in my 20s in a way that I could probably not physically endure at 46 (I actually need sleep now!)...and I am not even close to being "grandmotherly" yet. I wonder if an older woman could physically endure it? If the parents could kick in with a little childraising help, they might have a decent chance of keeping a lonely older person on for years and years...but not if they are going to work her like a mule.
Mom
I would've never guessed you were 46, you seem so much younger! :)
I think the people who posted the $2000/week job are scary and don't know anything about children. It would be very difficult to work for someone like this. Your children don't need classes, they don't need a chef, and they don't need to travel the world before age three. They need parents to play with them and read to them and snuggle them. And their nanny needs her privacey and time off if she is going to be happy and do a good job!
As for the others struggling to afford childcare...I feel for them all, but you can't squeeze water from a rock. I am well into child-bearing age and have not had a baby yet because I wouldn't be able to afford daycare! Part of being a responsible parent is deciding whether or not it's worth it to work or stay at home. If your working means you have to find someone to provide childcare for you at $20/day, you probably should rethink things. You many find someone, but it won't be the care you want!
Awww geee, thanks MPP.
I feel young at heart. Does that count?
And I may have a certain "silly side"...which actually prompted my daughter to tell me last night that sometimes I act like I'm six. (Hey, in all fairness, how could I possibly have guessed that she might be embarrassed by my breaking into a silly dance during kickboxing class?!) She rolled her eyes when I replied, "Thank you. I loved being six. Six was a very good year!"
But also remember how old my kids are. At a certain point it would raise eyebrows if I was a lot younger than I am. I started a little young...by todays standards anyway...where a lot of people are waiting to mid thirties and even forties to have that first child now.
True. My friend that died left 3 kids. 22, 21 and 19. She started at 14. It was crazy, a lot of my friends had teenagers by the time they reached their 20's, and I had none yet.
LOL! Thanks CC... but no kids for me... I am a nanny... my name comes from my precious treasure girls that I watch... they are MY LIFE!!!!! oh... and I wouldn't REALLY ever take that job.. it would mean leaving my treasure girls... I am in Seattle :)
Well, then I will be raising no eyebrows here. I had my first at 24... which prompted a lot of people to ever so rudely say things like, "Didn't you go to college?" I was too shy to ever say it, but I always wanted to respond, "How many years did it take YOU to graduate...'cause I graduated years ago."
No wonder you thought I was younger though, since your friends had kids my kids ages and were a decade younger than me. I think that's common in a lot of areas. A lot of my cousins had kids at those ages. Now thay are grandmas. One of my cousins was a grandma at 30.
Yeah. Sadly, the 19 y.o. daughter had a baby about 6 mo. ago. So, she was a Grandma at a young age, too. Too bad she didn't get to watch her grow up.
I am now realizing just how messed up some of my friends were.
I'm disgusted with people who say $100/week(or whatever) is all I can afford. It's probably true BUT
A nanny is a luxury. Your child gets one-on-one attention in your home. You get to dictate the rules and how you want your child to be brought up. In other words, everything is done YOUR WAY. No one complains if they can't afford an LV bag -they just buy one from the Walmart. If you can't afford a nanny, you'll just have to look elsewhere. Stop exploiting desperate people and stop expecting so much for so little money.
Childcare is expensive in the US but taxes are so low. Childcare is heavily subsidised in The Netherlands. Single mothers earning average incomes probably only pay less than an euro per hour per child but to finance such an expensive policy, people obviously have to pay shitloads of taxes(33.65% for those earning 17 000 euro and below per year, 52% for those earning more than 53 000/year) which I doubt Americans would go for.
Well MPP,
From what I see wiht my cousins, in some areas it is just what the kids know to do...so I don't think it even seems messed up to them. It's just normal. My family moved away form there...and do you know I do not personally know, or know of one single girl who had a baby in high school in my town, or the neighboring high schools either. Not one.
I would not want to be the child of teenagers (cause I WAS...so I know all too well what its like) and teenagers, no matter how well intended they may be, are just not mature enough to be consistent in caring for both the physical and emotional needs of a child. MY parents were even the exception in that they were completely mature financially...got married, both worked their butts off to make sure I was safe and fed and well cared for. My mom even babysat in our home for a bunch of kids because she once saw me in a playpen in another babysitters house when she picked me up and had the smarts to recognize, even as a teenager, that it wasn't good for a baby to live in a playpen all day long...so she started her own daycare instead of working outside the house. My dad worked and went to college and eventually became wildly successful. They were even very conservative, so never went out to party at night, but stayed home and took care of me.
HOWEVER...you see how high school kids are...they way they fight and scream at their boyfriends and girlfriends...and the dumb things they say and do...and how emotionally immature they are? Mine were alos like that...because they were kids. And I can remember being scared..as a perpetual and ongoing daily circumstance, for most of my young childhood. And, as I mentioned above, I probably had it better than most kids of kids...because I hear a lot of stories about the kids dumping their babies with grandma (or whoever they can pawn the kids off on)randomly and often, and going on with their teenage lives asd though they weren't parents.
Mom, in response to
"kids dumping their babies with grandma (or whoever they can pawn the kids off on)randomly and often, and going on with their teenage lives asd though they weren't parents."
Ugggh. So true. I've seen probably a dozen cases of that where I live. Even the grandmas defending their daughters. "She needs to be out partying, she's a teenager!"
Ughhhhhhhh. Then she *doesn't* need a child.
I am watching my niece go through the horrors of having the sterotypical teen mommy. She's turning 2 this month and I've never seen her smile, or anything light up in her eyes for that matter. She is pale and sullen.
Yup, like the babies of some of the people in my family.
Good grief, why don't they let somebody adopt them if they don't want them and give them a chance at a normal, stable life?
The people with triplets are clueless. I had twins and needed help. There is no way one person can be fully responsible for multiples like that around the clock. It won't work for any $$$! The kids will suffer and the parents will blame the hapless nanny who takes the job.
To h.cat, if this is really the true picture and not an exaggeration, I urge you to get in there and do something. This is really not good. The child's development is at stake. If she truly never lights up and is continually pale and sullen, can you step in? Can you take her for the weekends? Or something? Please help her.
Holy F**K. 62 cents an hour???????????
The people with the triplets MAY be involved in the kids' lives, and just need a lot of assistance. I don't really get a sense from the ad of whether that's the case, or whether they just need someone to do it all for them.
MPP, that MUST have been a typo, that some of your friends had teenagers by the time they were in their 20's? So they'd have been pregnant at age 7?
Cali mom
After I typed "reached their 20's", I thought for a second some might think that, but when I said 20's, I was meaning while in their 20's (specifically one friend, 28, had a teenage daughter now 13, so she would've had her when she was 15 y.o.)
Hey, one of my cousins was a GRANDMA at 30! Do that math. Tragic.
MPP, that makes sense. I thought you either had meant that, or that you meant to say 30's instead of 20's.
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