Do you trust everyone with your children ?

Canada
September 19, 2008 8:46am CST
When you have to go some place do you trust the person you have watching your children ? How long have you known this person ? How many have placed an ad and then hired someone to watch their children without really knowing the person well ? Do you only hire family and close friends and what would you do if you didn't know anyone well enough but needed a sitter , what would you do ? How would you feel having a stranger watching your children ?
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• Canada
20 Sep 08
When i have kids i will get my husband or my family or his to watch our kids or friends , i don't think i would want a strageer to watch my kida and i have lots of friends so don't think i would get stuck where i would have to ask someone i didn't know but i know some people have to ask people they don't know cause they don't have family or lots of friends and they have to work so they have to ask a stranger
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• Canada
21 Sep 08
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@rainmark (4302)
19 Sep 08
Actually it's hard to trust your kids to someone. I only trust my sister next to me. She got a baby and i know she know how to look after the baby and she loves my baby Zach.I do also trust my granny and my mother the rest no! I never ever left my baby to stranger or neighbor or even friends. Im scared that they maybe hurt him and never take good care of him properly and evern abused or molisted.
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• Canada
19 Sep 08
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
20 Sep 08
I am hesitant to leave my son with strangers. When we had a baby and had to make use of a nursery to take care of our son, we made a find out by asking other parents how this particular nursery treated their children. We also visited the premises. However we prefer leaving our son in the custody of our parents or relatives.
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• Canada
21 Sep 08
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@annjilena (5618)
• United States
20 Sep 08
no i don,t trust everyone with my kids but some times you have to take a chance because you have to work so you leave your kids at a trusted day care and pray evething be alright.its hard sometime because you want the best for your kids and to trust a stranger with your pride and joy is hard.
• Canada
21 Sep 08
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
19 Sep 08
Ugh, I absolutely do NOT trust everyone with my children lol. I never have, and here is why. People have all different parenting philosophies and styles, and some people have no patience and no teaching skills. Other people are not consistent and don't even know how to be. I trust a few people, my best friend (who also has young kids), my mom, my sisters, but my mom and sisters live in another state. I have a couple friends I would let watch my daughter, but probably only stay overnight with my best friend. My son is 17 so I trust him to watch her now, but a couple years ago he wasn't responsible enough. My 19 year old daughter is trustworthy too and a great babysitter, but she moved to TN. She is planning to move back this way, to Vegas actually but I'm still not sure I want my 4 year old visiting her sister 200 miles away from me. I generally have only had her sister and brother watch her, and my closest friends. To be totally honest, if all my options were dismal or I didn't feel right about it, I would just forego having a babysitter and I would bring my daughter. It IS different now though because she's a bit older. When she was an infant and young toddler, there is NO WAY I would ever have left her with someone I didn't know or someone I didn't trust with MY own life. Back then she was exclusively nursing and couldn't communicate yet and my fears were too bad to feel okay about it. She was probably over a year before I actually left her with someone other than my husband for an extended period of time (more than 4 hours). Some moms are very comfortable with using other people, even people they don't know well. I think this is a personal preference, which is fine, but I'm just paranoid so I can't do that lol.
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• Canada
21 Sep 08
Very well said :)
• Canada
20 Sep 08
Very well said that is exaclty how I feel as well . You never can be safe with your children as they are the most important part of our life :) Thank you for your response .
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
20 Sep 08
After reading SO many posts where people said 'family family family, I use only family' I have to wonder why they don't say 'I only use people I trust'. It has been proven that people who get abused, molested, attacked, beaten, raped, and killed usually KNOW the person who did it, and it often turns out to be... family. I have friends I trust more than some family. I don't think I would leave my daughter alone with certain members of my extended family, I just don't think some of them are good influences or necessarily safe. I would caution people who only use family to make a couple good friends so they have another option, and some perspective.
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• United States
20 Sep 08
They question for me would be "Do you trust anyone with your children?" and that would be only my Mom, his Dad and his other grandma. It's not that I think the rest of the family would do anything to him, its just I worry about how well they can pay close attention to him. (He is almost two)
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• Canada
21 Sep 08
Well said , Thank you for your response .
@GardenGerty (157902)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I almost never left my kids ever. I became a baby sitter, in fact. I let my neighbors watch my son a time or two, maybe four times, total. The neighbor murdered his wife. I hired a mom down the street a time or two, she ran a licensed daycare, and was a beautiful person as well. I also traded with my friend. We both sold Avon, and we took turns watching each other's kids. I would never just hire someone. Too scary.
• Canada
19 Sep 08
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
20 Sep 08
ABSOLUTLEY NOT!! I'm actually very cautious about who watches my kids...MIND YOU now that they are older (teens) they are capable of being home alone and have been for a couple yrs now but when they were younger I didnt trust just anyone..Usually I'd have a friend watch them or one of my friends teen kids depending on where I was going etc..
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• Canada
21 Sep 08
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• Canada
19 Sep 08
I don't trust everybody but I have to work but I always try to meet with the person that is going to watch my kids first and if there is something I don't like then I don't hire them . It is hard for me cause I have no family to ask cause my husbadn and I moved where we dont' know many people so I have to trust people I don't know very well .
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• Canada
19 Sep 08
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@mom4kids (657)
• Canada
19 Sep 08
I only leave my children with close family and friends, never with someone I don't know very well. My children are my life and I'm not going to put them into the hands of someone I don't trust.
• Canada
20 Sep 08
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• Philippines
20 Sep 08
Good day... It goes without saying that I don't. It's a strange and cruel world out there and children are easy prey so I wouldn't just trust them in some stranger. If ever I need to leave them I would hire a sitter but I would ask a relative or a family member to sit with the sitter just to be in the safe side. It's my child's life we're talking about and I wouldn't trust them with anyone.
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• Canada
21 Sep 08
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@pehpot (4762)
• Philippines
19 Sep 08
I only trust my mother and my siblings with my kids, aside from them I have no trust to anyone.
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• Canada
19 Sep 08
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• Canada
19 Sep 08
I do not have any kids yet but would not trust everybody when i have kids . I would probably ask my mom to watch them and if she couldn't then my dad or my sisters . I have a big family so I would hope somebody would be able to and then if they could not i would try and not go out on that day and make another appointment for when my family was home or maybe my girfriends family .
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• Canada
19 Sep 08
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• United States
19 Sep 08
I trust a few people to watch my son and I do mean a few. My best friend's mother had a day care in her home and she hired this lady to work for her. One day we came in and she was beating one of the kids. Now I know my best friends mother would never do that but what about that lady she hired? If I didn't witness it I would never suspect that she was hitting the kids because she seems to be so loving to the kids when we are around. That taught me that you can't trust anybody. The only people who watch my son is my husband, our parents, and our sisters. Even when we go to church, his sister works in children church so I am comfortable with that and she is his teacher at the daycare we go to (lucky us). Even if she wasn't, the daycare is a part of the company that I work for so I go down and check on him quite frequently. If it weren't for that, I don't know what I would do.
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• Canada
20 Sep 08
I know what you mean there are very few people I will allow to watch my children as well . Even family is not always as great as you would think they would be . Thank you for your response .
• United States
21 Sep 08
I try very hard not to judge people, but unfortunately, it's part of my nature. I do however, give anyone and everyone a chance. As far as trusting my children with people, there are a few close friends of mine that I would trust them with. Trust them with just anyone? In this day and age I just cannot trust most people to care for the well being of my children.
• United States
19 Sep 08
I have a regular babysitter and, of course, my parents, but if they are not available, I trust the recommendations my sitter makes. I live in a really small town where wages are not high and it's hard for teenagers to find a job. They are very happy to make a little extra money and the teenage girls around here are pretty responsible. Fortunately I know most of them. If I really need somebody, I can always find somebody who comes highly recommended by a neighbor or my sitter. Of course, I always have them come over for an hour or two the day before they are to babysit so they get to know the kids a little bit and I get to know them a little better.
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• Canada
19 Sep 08
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• United States
21 Sep 08
I dont trust everybody with my child. At the same time though i am not always quick to judge. I mean if a friend said..oh i have a friend that will babysit for ya if u ever need one. I would accept my friends judgement of her friend and prob let them babysit, even if i have never met them...well of course it has to be a long time friend of the friend..lol
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