Comments on: upstaged by the babysitter

By: E

Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:00:33 +0000

My babysitting friends here in Paris are usually paid 10 euro/child/hour, though it is usually combined with English lessons for the child. (Of course, the child usually ends up teaching the babysitter French as well.) Be thankful you only have one.

And how would I like to be making 7 euro/hour…. Damn being paid in dollars while in France.

By: Gretchen

Gretchen — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:08:40 +0000

7 euros/hour is actually not so bad, compared to what I’ve heard and been offered elsewhere. If you ever need good babysitting recommendations though, just head over to aupairs like me sitting around the playground! We all know other anglos looking to pick up some extra work! I’ve gotten plenty of offers for friends.

Love your stuff, by the way!

By: Sigmund Carl and Alfred

Sigmund Carl and Alfred — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:18:52 +0000

Your post was evocative of another era- when my ex and I were in a similiar position, while on an extended holiday in Poland, from whence my ex hailed.

Needless to say, finding a babbysitter for HRH was an ordeal.

Much of Polish child rearing philosophy is based on the ‘let them cry or you will spoil them’ school of child neglect.

Couple that with the fact that many Polish babysitters are accompanied by their vodka and anything made of greasy pork to eat toting friends, we faced a real dilemma.

So, this Anglo expatriate did the unthinkable.

We found a French babysitter and hired her. She was a lovely thing, dumb as a roast beef, with a heart of gold- and she loved babies. My daughter took to her instantly.

I will be forever grateful to the ‘petite francaise’ we found in Krakow.

One more thing. Of course we overpaid.

C’est la vie, n’est pas?

By: David Weman

David Weman — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:35:46 +0000

Hey, you’re good. Real good.

the link to the satin pajamas is broken, btw.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:50:47 +0000

My wife and I went out more the two years after we didn’t need a babysitter anymore than we had for the ten years prior to that.

By: Mimile

Mimile — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:31:42 +0000

Comme quoi les babysitters se lancent dans le commerce agressif…

By: sans moi

sans moi — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:25:39 +0000

7 â¬, c’est la ruine, j’ai une copine qui paye sa babysit’ 5 â¬ de l’heure, elle a trouvÃ© une liste de jeunes filles Ã l’Ã©glise oÃ¹ elle va..

By: kim

kim — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:04:47 +0000

A sheep thong?

Alas, I only have a sheep puppet. But he is awfully cute, and when you move his mouth, he sings three songs (Frères Jacques, London Bridge Is Falling Down, and Old McDonald… bilingual sheep power!).

I tried to come up with something embarassing someone could find in our apartment, but there isn’t much, other than clutter. Perhaps the emergency underwear (you know, that horrid pair that you resist throwing away just because you know one day you’ll be nearly out of underwear and have to wear them as you do the laundry)?