Due to ill health it has been necessary to employ a couple of different people who are available to babysit my DC for a few hours each week.
One such person is a 'friend of a friend', a professional person who has no children of her own and always takes my DC out of the home to meet up for play-dates with her friend's children.
The last time my DC came home and wouldn't eat dinner because 'the man gave us some chips". The play-date was a mother and child, not a man, and part of me thinks is is bound to be safe and fine, but another part of me feels very uneasy. I am not sure whether it is unease because the babysitter didn't mention the chips or the man, but only mentioned the other child and parent, or whether it is something else, but I don't feel happy about it.
Because I am paying, I would have expected to be able to say where they take my DC, and whether they even leave the house or not. However I can see that this could be seen as being overly protective and unnecessary. Just can't shake off the unease.
So what would you do? Talk to her and ask who the man was with the chips? Just never book her to babysit again? (Ignoring it isn't an option for me!) or anything else?