Articles Tagged: babysitting

Get a babysitter!

By Elsie Button, Mar 14, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I invited some of our parent friends round for dinner. These are people that we really like, but often we only manage a brief exchange at the school gates before the kids drag us away, moaning that they are hungry.

When your child becomes the babysitter

By Josie Golden, Feb 17, 2012

That will teach me to be so smug and self-satisfied. There I was, bobbing along in a bubble of my own, and congratulating myself on the fact that at long last we felt our eldest child was old enough to be left in charge of his two younger siblings on the odd Saturday night.

Going out without the baby: Do date nights ever live up to expectations?

By Hazel Davis, Oct 8, 2011

Approximately two hours after your baby is born you will start to regret the times you didn't make the most of time alone with your partner. Suddenly all the nights out with friends you crammed in before the birth seem a waste and evenings watching TV ignoring each other seem like luxurious indulgence of the worst kind.

Working mums rely on their team of 10 to get them through the week

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Sep 20, 2011

Researchers claim most modern mums who juggle home, work and children, have a 'team' of around 10 friends and family who they rely on to keep everything on track and stop them becoming totally frazzled by their commitments.

Surviving Teenagers or Why I'm no good at babysitting

By Marianne Kavanagh, Jun 27, 2011

My 16-year-old is miserable. She’s promised to babysit for a family we know down the road. But she forgot that this is the weekend that everyone is out celebrating the end of exams.