I have 2 kids my friend has 4. I have babysat for her on many , many occasions and also helped her kids with their homework and revision for literally hours every week for months. She has babysat for me 3 times. Recently she suggested we make it a weekly event whereby she babysits my 2 (ages 5 and 6) once a week and I babysit hers (16, 13,12,9) for one day. On my day I arranged for them to be already bathed - she was to hear them read a page of their reading book plus read a short story. On my return she had delegated the task to her children with the result that the little girl had gone to bed without her pull-ups and wet the bed and her other children had used our lounge leaving the sticky residue of their popcorn over our throws. She said that by asking her to do bedtime story we were "taking the piss". she had only agreed to babysit ...