Babysitters: help! what to do if babysitter wants to bring a friend..

[naturopath]

Getting babysitter to come with us to family function. She wants to bring a friend. Do I have to pay the friend anything as well??

I would say no. You only need one babysitter and if the friend choses to come along then that's her choice.

My babysitter sometimes brings her boyf with her but I don't pay him too

As a babysitter, no. I very rarely have people babysitting with me (twice in fact, once when I had a massive piece of coursework due in and needed to work on it with my study partner and the other time when my friend had just broken up with her bf and didn't want to be alone) but I never expect them to be paid!

ok thanks!

Say NO... no need for a babysitter to bring a friend. You don't know their friend, your child/children don't know their friend. Plus your babysitter may not spend as much quality time with your child/children, when they are awake.

ok, so I did allow her to bring the friend, who was great. It was about 9 hours' work, and although I obviously arranged food, drinks, breaks and rounded up the original babysitter's pay nicely, i feel really guilty now about not paying her friend at all. But then the day would have worked out pretty expensive if I was paying for 2 babysitters when I only needed one. Do you think I should drop round some money for the friend? She's 15 and lives near me..

No!!

No! She won't be expecting it and you don't need to. If you start a precedent you will have friends queueing up to join your babysitter!

That was ny worry ... I did make it clear to the original one that I was only paying for her. not her friemnd, but suddenly felt really bad about it afterwards.

No. If I ever brought a friend baby sitting, we split the money the parents gave to me.

Did you Colditz? You were more generous than I was then! I just used to let them eat the family out of house and home.