Hi all just collecting people's thoughts on older siblings babysitting younger siblings?
We have a 13 year old boy, a 3 year old and 2 year old. We have no family between us that could babysit or help out with the kids We haven't had time together without the children in ages and got to thinking about when the eldest would be old enough to watch the younger 2. I've looked online and read that there's no law or specific age that an older sibling can or can't babysit. There's a restaurant literally at the end of our road so we were thinking about getting the younger 2 asleep and leaving the teenager in charge for a couple of hours. If anything goes wrong or if one of the kids wakes up we're 30 seconds down the road so could easily get back ASAP! We 100% believe that our eldest is mature enough to take on this responsibility. What's everyone's thoughts on this? When did your older children start babysitting? I'm pretty apprehensive about this so any stories and opinions are welcome Thanks x
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user1485788422 · 19/10/2019 15:48
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