I’m past my babysitting prime, and boy am I glad.
I’m sure some of you have babysat for some wild children before.
But have you ever had a situation where the parents were the problem?
Reddit useru/Oberon_Sexton_asked the Redditsphere tosharestories about the most deranged families they’ve ever had to babysit for.
Here are some of the top-rated responses:
1.
“I was considering babysitting a family with twin 18-month-olds.
If they played together, I had to stop them because that was sharing.
“I had to call the kid different names in a public place.
Because the real names were unusual and the parents were worried about kidnapping.
u/Minniemoo523
3.
“The parents were bodybuilders and had one daughter.
Emma, Emmie, Emory, Every, Avery, and one time Emerson.
Anyway, this kid would lose her mind unless I playedBubble Guppieson TV and consistently fed her cheese.
I would usually try and distract her with any other snack but she would only eat cheese.
I was seriously concerned for this kid’s health.
For 2 years, I had only ever seen her eat cheese.
She was constipated almost every time I babysat.
u/norberthp
4.
“One mom had me take her 2-year-old to the park to play after daycare REGARDLESS of the weather.
So if it was freezing cold, raining, or windy she didnt care.
And this was prepandemic.
I quit after 2 weeks.”
u/cajc
6. u/MyMumSaidICantGo
7.
The parents were BOTH home while I ‘babysat.’
It was so uncomfortable.”
“Babysat for the neighbor of a family friend.
Seemly normal house as you walked in the front door.
Go into the kitchen, more tanks.
The kid I’m babysitting has two tanks in his room.
There are tanks in the hallway upstairs.
This house is basically a zoo.
Um, yeah, no thanks…
“…I spent the longest six hours of my life constantly thinking something was crawling on me.
Also, his kid was a little shit.”
u/petitepamplemousse
9.
However, the parents were supposed to be home at 10, and it’s going on 11:30.
My mom calls the house and I say they’re not home yet.
They don’t show, don’t call, and it’s midnight and I’m 12.
She has to come over to sit with the kids so I can go home and go to bed.
Apparently, the parents rolled in drunk as fuck around 3 a.m.
I never babysat for them again.”
thebloodofthematador
10.
“There was an order in which we had to go up and down the stairs.”
“I once babysat for a family with two young daughters.
So the parents switched the locks around on their doors so they’d lock from the outside.
Bedtime rolls around, and I can’t do it.
I can’t lock those kids in their bedrooms!
It was too fucked up!
The whole thing was honestly pretty traumatizing for little 13-year-old me.
Had I been older and more informed, I probably would have wanted to call CPS.
That seriously cannot be a normal/healthy parenting decision.”
u/maz_lotus
12.
“The parents were vegan and so were the kids (4 and 2).
The little one would also cry hysterically if I ate something that wasn’t vegan.”
u/lanallamaa
13.
But I’m not a fucking maid for hire.
Yeah, okay, pal.
Hope your two perfect cherubs remained pure.”
u/smears
15.And finally, “I once babysat for an only child.
It was pretty normal until the kid wanted to play a game.
He started to play Minecraft, and I watched a bit.
All he did was murder rabbits for two hours.
The parents came back hammered, sent the kid to their room, and started making out.
They asked me if I wanted to join.”
u/groolmate
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
