Worst baby-sitting experience

[feline]

When my first-born baby was brought home, my husband had his worst experience as the baby kept on crying for the whole night. My husband kept on trying his best, dancing the baby to make him quiet until both of them were tired. It was his worst experience, ever.

What about yours?

[Amy]

My husband did great - it was an actual babysitger we had trouble with. Came home and the house was locked up tight - had to break into the back door (throgh the chain), and we get halfway through the kitchen and her BOYFRIEND comes out into the kitchen and literally stands in front ofmyhusband and tried to blockhim from entering the living room. When we got in there, she was just "tucking in her shirt". Needless to say, this was the last time she ever sat (and this was a trusted friends daughter and we knew the girl very well.)

[Tigriz]

My in laws probably had the worst experience I've ever heard of (I've never had a bad one, since so far Alex has only ever stayed with his grandparents when we're gone). They planned to go out to dinner and to a movie. My husband was small, probably just under a year at the time. They let a neighbor girl watch him. By the time dinner was over they had both decided to skip the movie since they missed their little one so much. It was the first time they had ever left him. When they got home, my husband was in his high chair covered in food, with a huge red handprint across his face. The girl had also invited two boys over and they had broken the lock on my father in law's locked gun cabinet and were dry firing (meaning there was no bullets in them but they were shooting them anyway) his rifles back in the bedroom. My mother in law said she thought her husband was going to kill them all. In any case, they never left him with anyone except relatives after that experience. Personally, if I ever found Alex in that condition, regardless of the added danger of the guns, I would probably go to jail, because I'd be returning the favor of the nice big handprint across the girl's face myself.

[Melos]

Oh my goodness! I would have killed them!
My kids have only ever stayed with my mother - I just couldn't trust some teenage kid with my autistic son.
In my teenage years, I have had some hellish babysitting experiences, but that was just because they kids were spoiled brats.

[Amy]

Ture - your circumstances are quite different, however this was a "trusted" and known teenager. The chance of course is that they are teenagers and as we've all gone through that age, we know what they are like, the (sometiems poor) choices that they make and the lessons they learn from it. I thnk of my son now - 17 years old, national honor student, decorated with all sorts of awards, and highly respected byhis peers and adults alike....however....he still will (and does) go through those teenage times. There's just no getting around them.

[Melos]

I don't know Amy. I was a teenager not TOO long ago, and I babysat regularly. I would never have dreamed of inviting anyone into someone else's house while babysitting. No one has a right to invite someone into a house not your own.
I can understand and comiserate with the fact that you didn't know this girl would do this - there is no way of telling that! - but to say that all teenagers go through a period where they sneak around, are inconsiderate and rude is just plain wrong.

[Sister]

Well, my friend dropped her baby off with me for an hour this morning and he cried the WHOLE time she was gone. I felt so bad for him. I was trying to hold and comfort him but my toddler got jealous and started to throw fits. Luckily my own baby was good. But still, what a morning.