Poppy – On-demand babysitters: On-demand babysitters, all handled over SMS.
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"Parents talk to their babysitters, kids talk to their babysitters," she said.
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Inspired by their own struggles to find babysitters, busy Belgian mothers Geraldine Biebuyck and Dimitri De Boose created airBsit to connect babysitters with parents.
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BUT ... Jesse says he is down to share babysitters!!!
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The app then sorts available babysitters by location and ratings.
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"I have so many babysitters," he said, pointing around him.
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Michael Myers, a masked brute, targets babysitters and their friends.
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They have, he said, turned managers and coaches into babysitters.
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If you had babysitters, who did you like and why?
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Cooper was ready for them with babysitters and stall tenders.
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In the U.S., the average hourly pay for babysitters is $28.12.
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But the number one category on Prefer right now is babysitters.
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Babysitters have to be coordinated for the night of the heist.
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For babysitters, technology has added ease to finding jobs as well.
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For parents looking to find babysitters, here are some helpful tips.
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Babies pick up codas from their mothers and babysitters in this way.
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Last month, Predictim began offering a similar service to parents seeking babysitters.
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They know, too, that their friends will also be sharing their babysitters.
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He trusted few, and McGilvrey says she lost babysitters because of him.
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In 2012, I wrote about the Census Bureau's categorizing fathers as babysitters.
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There were babysitters—girls from the college my father's secretary had found.
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"I noticed the parents treated [the male babysitters] very differently," she says.
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They were essentially babysitters-slash-experts on "trach tube" kids like me.
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At night, it offered study hours, providing babysitters and dinner for the kids.
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So I was no stranger to government babysitters sitting in on sensitive conversations.
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Golino wonders if babysitters will be willing to take that kind of action.
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When Cardi does need to leave home, she has multiple babysitters to turn to.
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They have around 150 London-based babysitters signed up to the platform at launch.
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Others are working as Uber drivers, substitute teachers, and babysitters to make ends meet.
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Joanna Gaines has found go-to babysitters in daughters Ella Rose and Emmie Kay!
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Babysitters are in short supply or leery of taking children from hard-hit regions.
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Her family occupied five apartments there, and relatives doubled as babysitters, cooks and hairdressers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Uncle Sam is finally delivering a spanking to company babysitters.
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While her parents worked long hours, she and Xavier were handed off to babysitters.
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That makes it difficult to use geofencing if you have babysitters or other infrequent visitors.
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On the other end, Babysitters receive a notification and can refuse or accept the offer.
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Dick Cheney loved "Hamilton," but so did teenagers, first graders, their babysitters and so on.
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At the gym, I turn on my workout-only, favorite podcast, The Babysitters Club Club.
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Urbansitter searches your area to find the top-rated babysitters and shows recommendations from your neighbors.
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Aides often leak stories about the difficulty of managing Trump — as if they were his babysitters.
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Snak is a voice for misfits that hang out in dingy basements and can't afford babysitters.
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Co-workers have private Slack channels and neighbors can arrange playdates or find babysitters on Nextdoor.
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The big picture: Parents rely on digital babysitters and device-led playtime to entertain their children.
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Gender plays a large role in the staff's duties — women are usually housekeepers, babysitters, or governesses.
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The perpetrators are typically someone the child knows—family members, babysitters, neighbors, teachers or family friends.
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There was an idea to connect people to nannies and babysitters that came from a female founder.
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" Sheriff Jones warned other parents about properly vetting babysitters: "Parents, please know who is watching your children.
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A lot of babysitters, a lot of relatives, literally have walked away because it's too much pressure.
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Emma remembers being shuffled between babysitters, and even when she was with her mother, she was distant.
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They allow neighbors to promote garage sales, find babysitters, or request help to find a lost dog.
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Maybe it could be used to vet babysitters or as an add-on feature for surveillance cameras.
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The SitterClub app matches babysitters and caregivers but does not set payment rates or manage sitters' schedules.
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We have given up our family room but gained live-in cooks and babysitters, which is amazing.
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For infants and toddlers, babysitters are often available for one-on-one care for an additional fee.
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For those who hire private babysitters, they can upload a signed note from the babysitter, confirming the payment.
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I want to have some weekend fun, too, but I primarily negotiate it with R. and use babysitters.
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What will happen when we get virtual babysitters and such and all the technology fades into the background?
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Click through to read some seriously scary ghost stories, courtesy of the parents, siblings, and babysitters of Reddit.
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It can be a costly child-care shuffle, with kids rotating between relatives, babysitters and pricey organized programs.
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He scheduled babysitters, including her parents and his, to help watch Catherine and the children while he worked.
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I think probably in some cases it could be transactions, so we could create a marketplace for babysitters.
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And as long as there are babysitters, bellhops, doormen, street vendors and Christmas stockings, there will be cash.
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Many of us experienced Disney on homemade VHS tapes and Sunday afternoon TV, watched with parents and babysitters.
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It seemed right for a day off, with babysitters, parents, and offspring sprung from their desks and playdates.
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My parents didn't trust babysitters, so parish dinners, poker games and Knights of Columbus meetings came to us.
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What parents can say If we're practicing social distancing, is it OK to invite babysitters into our homes?
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What parents can say If we're practicing social distancing, is it OK to invite babysitters into our homes?
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Children of those arrested were left behind, stranded with babysitters and in daycare facilities, according to local activists.
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The girl&aposs mother, Dasiah Jordan, had left the child with babysitters while she went to a hair appointment.
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Men are often presented as bumbling babysitters instead of caretakers — that onerous task nearly always falls on the mother.
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I was still a freelance journalist, and paying babysitters was so expensive that my working actually cost us money.
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She says she often gets babysitters for the weekends so she can nab some of that precious adult time.
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Vacation-sharing. "We share our cars and we share our houses, so why not share our babysitters?" says Palmer.
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Perhaps, Reynolds could settle for enlisting Virtue and Moir's services only when he's in need of a couple babysitters.
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"The team's a group of friends and volunteers working in their spare time," he said of the Trump babysitters.
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They have staffed coronavirus hotlines, coordinated meal deliveries and even offered their time as babysitters to other medical workers.
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In scene after scene, you are reminded that libraries serve as study centers, neighborhood hubs, babysitters and homeless shelters.
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Despite having homeschool teachers watching over the kids during the day, no babysitters or adult supervisors ever stay the night.
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In other words, childless people like me are becoming more and more unreliable babysitters, leaving parents out in the cold.
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This is an especially unfortunate situation because there are more potential babysitters today than at any time in recorded history.
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He said she was directed by a pediatrician only days before her son's death to avoid using them as babysitters.
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It's inspired by an old urban legend about hippie babysitters from the free love era doing LSD and eating babies.
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Like any independent contractor—including babysitters, photographers, hair stylists, and comics—dancers should estimate their gross income, deductions, and credits.
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Bambino wants to help by connecting parents with nearby babysitters who have already been recommended by their friends and neighbors.
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Of course, their young daughter's clueless babysitters unleash Annabelle and, as the creepy trailer indicates, all hell breaks loose. Aug.
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She felt guilty about the patchwork of babysitters, neighbors, and subpar childcare centers that helped take care of her kids.
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We're the babysitters who beg to come over, an offer that's hard to refuse since we don't charge a dime.
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Lynn Perkins, CEO and co-founder of UrbanSitter, a platform that connects babysitters with parents through community recommendations, loves matchmaking.
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McCullough's LinkedIn profile said she was inspired to create Peeple as a means of vetting people, like contractors, babysitters or neighbors.
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They are the women who raised me — my aunts and cousins, my Sunday-school teachers and babysitters and field-trip supervisors.
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Nextdoor users buy and sell desks and bikes, find babysitters and veterinarians, get together for block parties or to run together.
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Girls were hired as babysitters and taught to cook, while the independence of those rough-and-tumble boys was fiercely guarded.
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Not only is Beck managing a growing business, but she's also managing logistics like preschools, babysitters, cross-country flights and breastfeeding.
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Our family doesn't live locally and we've had bad luck finding reliable babysitters, so we take advantage of this PNO deal.
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Many military members see themselves as "war fighters, not babysitters," and that won't change through policy alone, according to Roche-Paull.
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It's hair stylists, dog walkers, babysitters, restaurant workers and others who provide services that people no longer need or can't afford.
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As with all of nature's successful adaptations, there's a reason for this: The matriarchs serve as midwives, babysitters, navigators and teachers.
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Local babysitters will have the best insider knowledge, from the most child-friendly parks to the most satisfying ice cream shops.
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As a mother with three young children living away from family in Westport, Connecticut, Elizabeth Aronson always relied heavily on babysitters.
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And they judged the performance of housekeepers, babysitters and other domestic workers, often without letting them know they were being recorded.
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Many people use babysitters but we feel what's best for our relationship is spending all of our extra time as a family.
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Biel, whose son Silas (solid name, Jessica) will turn 2 this year, has even equipped the restaurant with on-site babysitters, a.k.a.
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You also see the voice AIs being used as virtual babysitters, like, I'm not at home but the AI can watch out.
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"Vacations can be much more affordable for working parents when they apply the lessons of the sharing economy to babysitters, " Palmer says.
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"A lot of people who look from the outside in think we're just glorified babysitters, but we're not," Brittany Hampton, 31, said.
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The 9-year-old site connects potential babysitters or other caregivers with families who need childcare, senior care or even pet care.
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The legislation would also expand the state's "castle doctrine" by allowing invited guests, such as babysitters, to use deadly force against intruders.
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If you want to come out with your wife and surf, we have the babysitters so both of you can go in.
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If your social activities require your friends to get babysitters because your house isn't kid-friendly, then make your house kid-friendly.
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Greene says babysitters also need to agree to reviews of their profiles for quality and random checks of their social media footprint.
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Instructors play the part of both coaches and babysitters, helping players to adjust their technique, remember their grip and control their aim.
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As does the familiar musical theme, goosing the action as fresh babysitters and randy boyfriends are imperiled, including Laurie's granddaughter (Andi Matichak).
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Image: AmazonAmazon's roving six-wheeled delivery workers are headed to the sidewalks of California, and they're bringing their human babysitters with them.
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Grandparents, babysitters and others we rely on in our support networks can't be enlisted for backup care, given the risk of contagion.
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The back rubs are coordinated through Zo, Tishman's intra-portfolio concierge service, which also helps find babysitters, book manicures and plan trips.
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The federal statute also exempts some other types of workers: babysitters employed on a casual basis; companions for the aged; newspaper carriers.
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They had six different babysitters lined up to care for their two sons during the 14 days they planned to be away.
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When they began to feel nervous about hiring babysitters who would have to change Rosie's diapers, they decided to share the secret.
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Nationwide service UrbanSitter is home to over 150,000 trusted babysitters and gathers mutual connections and recommendations from their community of fellow parents.
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This can also include adult babysitters, especially if they're routinely watching your children every weekend for even a nominal amount, like $50.
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For many that consists of stringing together a patchwork schedule of camps, babysitters, grandparent care, and family vacations thrown in for good measure.
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Working alone in eight-hour shifts (in Phoenix they earn about $24 an hour), the babysitters are then set loose into the wild.
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As we've told you, Tyrese is upset about how much dough Norma Gibson's been dropping on babysitters for their 11-year-old daughter.
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Instead of using this feature to protect personal privacy, the researchers found users were actually using it to spy on housesitters and babysitters.
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And what are babysitters, nurses, and cooks if not rental relatives, filling some of the roles traditionally performed by mothers, daughters, and wives?
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But sadly I'm in that life phase of paying for babysitters and preschool and Brooklyn rent, and it's just not in the cards.
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It currently has about 20,000 users in total, divided relatively evenly between parents and babysitters, says founder and chief executive officer Sean Greene.
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There are plenty of apps for nannies and babysitters, but it wasn't the sort of thing I wanted a crowd-aggregated score for.
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There are no more after-school activities, no more sports, and for many families, no more nannies or babysitters to help with caretaking.
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I attached spreadsheets to the cards, like a packing list for weekly swim lessons, and added notes, like contact information for our babysitters.
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This means that they are not watching their offspring, which effectively turns us employees into babysitters while we're also busy taking orders and serving.
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These helpful babysitters move the orangutans through classes, like Coconut Cracking 101 and Snake Awareness, until there are prepared to take on the world.
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Those protections, however, don't necessarily apply to informal and contract workers like babysitters, which is one reason Parsa and Simonoff targeted this market segment.
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They'll be looking for "nannies, babysitters ... services and people who can make their lives easier," said Josh Felser, co-founder of venture firm Freestyle.
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In determining whether case needs to be opened, the algorithmic model excludes important information that would be in reports from babysitters or Alcoholics Anonymous.
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When her second son, Zachary, was born eighteen months later, it was the members of her Martinsburg, West Virginia, congregation who helped find babysitters.
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Is the mama whale annoyed or does she welcome them along for a ride, like a staff of camp counselors or a babysitters club?
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Babysitters are a very apocryphal example at Nextdoor because you want to find a babysitter that lives near you that is in the neighborhood.
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People who pay their babysitters on the books often experience intense administrative pain, in filling out forms and complying with all of the regulations.
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The balloon is the work of a group of Londoners, friends who jokingly call themselves Trump babysitters, several of whom work for environmental charities.
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For example, Israelis living in New York City can find recommendations on locating authentic Israeli cuisine or babysitters and doctors who speak Hebrew nearby.
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"We don't need any babysitters for match days, which is really important if both parents are fans of the team," said Grützner, a journalist.
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Luckily, Leroux Dwyer refers to her teammates as "18 babysitters" who lend a helping hand — except when it comes time for bed, of course.
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As babysitters go, they were pretty content to sit on the couch and watch TV while the kids did pretty much anything they wanted.
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As I labored away at humorless story lines about love triangles, I kept joking that I would someday write a book called The Babysitters Coven.
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My one regret with The Babysitters Coven is that I never figured out a convincing way to make landlines a core part of the plot.
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It works: Not only does Alice get company out of the deal, but also a ready-made set of babysitters/drivers/fix-it guys/friends.
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I began giving my babysitters $5 extra on their way out, imploring them to add that as a tip at the end of their ride.
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Would you really want all your business acquaintances and former babysitters and — god forbid — exes to have even the vaguest peek into your romantic life?
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This displacement is a big concern: if kids are left with screen-based babysitters then they are not interacting with caregivers and the physical world.
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In the four decades since the mute Michael Myers spawned a franchise by stalking babysitters (including Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode), we've amassed considerable coverage.
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Dora the Explorer and Daniel Tiger might seem like the perfect babysitters for toddlers, preschoolers and young grade schoolers, who may be running wild underfoot.
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Instead of buying a gold watch or diamond earrings for Valentine&aposs Day, convince your spouse to spend that money on babysitters for date night.
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"Even now that the baby is 6 months old, we're still trying to navigate between babysitters and trying to manage our daughter on our own."
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In November, the boy's babysitters, Valorie Olah and Samantha Olah, were indicted along with his mom in connection with his death, which was ruled a homicide.
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Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have limited the amount of data that's accessible to Predictim, a California-based startup that uses machine learning to vet potential babysitters.
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Side hustlers who moonlight as babysitters will also have an easier time finding work on Valentine's Day — it's the second most in-demand night for sitters.
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Whether if it's a new business or family that just moved into town, you can can refer them to restaurants, accountants, lawyers, landscapers, babysitters, or vendors.
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The details: The so-called "blueprints" can do things like have recorded info for babysitters or house guests, create flash cards and play customized trivia games.
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The Trump babysitters started a crowdfunding campaign to fund a "Trump Baby world tour": They have so far raised over 34,000 British pounds, or about $44,500.
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Finding the right help Their childcare arrangements often are a patchwork of nannies or babysitters, after-school programs and grandparents, and alternating duties with their spouse.
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To many parents, smartphones and iPads are wonderful babysitters — a funny Youtube video playing on a screen can work miles better than any pacifier or nanny.
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It will come as no surprise that women are far more apt than men to give hearty shout-outs to parents and babysitters for child care.
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"Growing up in New York City, we had babysitters [instead of teachers]," said Jenkins, who went to the same junior high school in Queens as Nas.
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Finding babysitters or elder-care is, after all, a relatively episodic need, and there is a high risk of disintermediation, yielding a marketplace with weaker network effects.
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I wanna be where the cool babysitters are... Fifteen-year-old Keegan Carnahan is a regular babysitter for her father's assistant's daughter, three-year-old Alidy Clark.
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Orlove's artwork for the band is overtly feminine, depicting the band members in pastels as if they were characters on the cover of a Babysitters Club book.
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My 5-year-old and 3-year-old spent the day with a patchwork of family members and babysitters, while my husband worked as a software developer.
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" They went on to claim they were made to work as de facto babysitters for Depp's minor child and were also "forced to protect [Depp] from himself.
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She talks about the people who have had to miss appointments because their babysitters flaked or their paychecks didn't clear, and then couldn't afford a later procedure.
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What most people seem not to understand is that even when single mothers work, they must pay either babysitters or day care providers, and both are expensive.
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It's a good thing that The Chew co-host Daphne Oz has plenty of willing babysitters — People reports that she announced her third pregnancy on Instagram today.
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But if you have kids or guests or babysitters who need to turn on the lights without downloading and learning a new app, it can get stressful.
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I'd come across bartenders, babysitters, and dog-walkers — people who liked their day job but couldn't exactly afford the lifestyle they wanted based on that work alone.
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When she realized all the teenage girls with babies she would see around town were not babysitters or older sisters, but rather young mothers, she was fascinated.
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There's also a delightful updated spinoff series, written by Ann M. Martin (author of the Babysitters' Club series) and Annie Parnell, that's set in the present day.
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Their lives match those of most families with young children: an exhausting jumble of work, cooking, diaper-changes, endless piles of laundry and the wrangling of babysitters.
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She's the mother of Kristy Thomas, the teenager who had a big idea to gather her friends together to start a club/business of babysitters-for-hire.
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One of the best parts about your 40s is having kids who are old enough not to need babysitters and have a social life of their own.
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You let all your fans including me pay for parking, hotels, babysitters, drinks, merchandise then sit and wait for 22 min after it was to begin to cancel.
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You let all your fans including me pay for parking, hotels, babysitters, drinks, merchandise then sit and wait for 220 min after it was to begin to cancel.
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People used it to spy on their babysitters and house cleaners, capture unexpected moments like a baby's first steps, or watch over their homes while out of town.
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Some 16 balloon minders in yellow vests identifying themselves as "babysitters" minded lead lines to the 6-meter (20-foot) inflatable as the curious gawked and took pictures.
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In late April, 3-year-old Brantley Santiago died after he fell down the stairs of his home in Orwell, Ohio, while in the care of his babysitters.
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Despite the babysitters' near-transcendent level of adolescent responsibility, Martin makes sure to keep their maturity level realistic and relatable; when they fought, they fought like middle schoolers.
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Is there any greater feeling than when America gets to say goodbye to baby Trump for the weekend and put him in the hands of trusted foreign babysitters?
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My younger brother, Martin, and I were raised in part by an eclectic mix of babysitters, after-school teachers, summer camp counselors, neighbors, and a beloved bachelor uncle.
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Will the children with tablets for babysitters have the patience, or even see the point, of attempting to master the rigorous, slow, process of making things by hand?
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Bambino has a payment tool that tracks the duration of a babysitting session and lets parents send money to babysitters, who set their own rates, through the app.
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She leaves the girl in the care of her own mother and, later, a succession of babysitters as she pursues her stage and screen career on two continents.
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Many dads, grandparents, older siblings, aunts, uncles and babysitters speak parentese, intuitively aware that it helps the baby tune in socially and respond, even if only through babbling.
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We were going to be 48 when our youngest child turned 18, and we talked about having a second stage of life, with travel and dates without babysitters.
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Some have criticized that rooming in forces parents to be "babysitters" for their newborns — something we would not require if the baby were being treated for another condition.
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Hopefully, we can work out a situation with childcare, whether it's daycare or getting nannies or babysitters, where we can both continue to do what we like to do.
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The 20-foot inflatable diaper-clad baby holding a cell phone is being guarded by 16 people in yellow vests who identified themselves as "babysitters" to the Associated Press.
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Working in the music industry often takes her and Mr. Lopez away from their two daughters, so she leaves them with personalized lullabies that she has their babysitters sing.
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"Usually, if they have a side job, it's in hospitality or real estate, or they are babysitters," Matt DiCarlo, the director of the show, said in a phone interview.
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While parents of young children have long used nanny cams to keep tabs on the babysitters, companies are now marketing these products to parents of teens and preteens, too.
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Many working families are spending more than ten percent of their income on basic services like day care or babysitters, at a cost of hundreds of dollars a week.
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Certified babysitters, or "Wing-sitters" will be on staff to provide supervision and programming that will include art, music, movement classes, open play and monthly events for different age groups.
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And of course, there is a fiercely devoted fan base that has continued to love Martin's babysitters long after they graduated middle school in the final book, published in 2000.
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We also use these evenings as date nights, paying our babysitters well in advance so that, no matter how tired and grumpy we might feel, we rarely cancel the evening.
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I hid obsessive-compulsive rituals from babysitters while scanning our New York City street for my mother's orange hat, the all-clear signal that she was safely returning from work.
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In 1975, the Labor Department issued rules that labeled home care workers "companions," akin to babysitters, a label that exempts employers from having to pay the minimum wage or overtime.
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Bambino combines the two ideas in one: it lets parents find nearby babysitters who have already sat for people they know, saving them time without sacrificing their peace of mind.
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It is not a substitution for full-time childcare, but will allow members to have two to three hours of work time while their children are cared for by certified babysitters.
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The app manages additional profiles for trusted members, as well as guests like babysitters and dog walkers that can be excluded from activity pings for certain time frames throughout the week.
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Experienced caretakers can usually provide a safe environment, but to avoid unintentional injuries, grandparents and babysitters need to be just as educated when it comes to safety standards and first aid.
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To keep it affordable, avoid the need to hire babysitters in order to attend classes and maintain the flexibility she needed, she completed an online program through the University of Colorado.
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His mother and Godmother were both heavily involved in the Vancouver lower mainland's gospel scene, and while babysitters were hard to find, an empty corner in the rehearsal space was not.
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They commute to jobs on the Westside as restaurant workers and babysitters, sitting next to hipsters and retirees who have chosen to move downtown and take the train to the water.
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The couple, who have three children, moved there in 2000 and have stayed as apartment rents have risen, schools grew crowded and even babysitters became harder to find (and more expensive).
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Kasey Edwards, the founder and CEO of Helpr, an app that connects parents with screened babysitters, said it is working with families of essential workers to help them afford child care.
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But children are at the mercy of the smokers in their lives — not just parents and other relatives who smoke but also babysitters, day care workers, school bus attendants, even teachers.
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But come summer, many parents find themselves cobbling together a mix of camps, sports and educational programs with babysitters to fill the gaps — all of which can strain budgets and resources.
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He works as much as he can — to buy them food, to pay for babysitters, to send money to Díaz, who sits jobless and lonely in a village near Puerto Vallarta.
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Ivy Cleveland, a stay-at-home mom and founder of She Is Ministries, had lined up six babysitters to take care of their two other children while the couple was away.
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The rest of my "village" was made up of fellow grad students and their friends, many of whom doubled as babysitters and companions to nightclubs, house parties, and other social events.
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Others say moviegoing has become too expensive — concessions, tickets, babysitters — especially given the growing array of low-priced at-home entertainment options that are often already part of a household's budget.
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She said she had tried many services and had mixed luck before a fellow mom recommended Bambino, an app that connects families and babysitters based on a social network of recommendations.
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The big picture: Parents today are relying more than ever on digital babysitters and device-led playtime to entertain their children, with many not comfortable sending their children outside to play unattended.
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Nearly one in five parents say they plan on spending over $2,000 per child for summertime child-care services, and that includes summer camps, classes, as well as daily babysitters or nannies.
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But as an immigrant to this country, having the skills of being a great coder meant when I was going through high school, my friends were getting jobs as busboys or babysitters.
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We cover babysitters, rides, going to doctor's appointments, and we also get money for gas because Halifax is the only major place in Nova Scotia that you can get an abortion performed.
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John Carpenter had only shot and scored two semi-obscure features when the executive producer Irwin Yablans came to him with a proposal: make a low-budget movie about babysitters being murdered.
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Hyperallergic spoke with one of Trump Baby's "babysitters," Matt Bonner, who designed the inflatable and actually has a long history of working with political campaigns motivated by social justice and environmental reform.
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At The Muraka (from $40,000 a night), a villa at Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, little ones can "glamp" in an undersea suite while marine experts — also trained babysitters — read them bedtime stories.
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FROM PEN: EW's Top Ten Rom-Com Movie Moments It's tricky, too, to say exactly who the audience should be, outside of bored babysitters and millennials too young to even know Havana Nights.
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Armstrong imagines a world where airport security scans passengers' brains to make sure they haven't met with any terrorists, and where parents tap into their children's memory chips to check on their babysitters.
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This change gives users the ability to inform people in their care team — doctors, family members, midwives, and babysitters — about their progress, says Jennifer Tye, vice president of partnerships and marketing at Glow.
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And there's so much else that is behind what everyone sees with them taking off work or finding babysitters or countless other inconveniences that I am sure we can't even begin to imagine.
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Babysitters on Bambino range in age from 13 to 60, but most are in their twenties and include college students and people with jobs that give them the flexibility to take babysitting gigs.
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I have long maintained that when I was 7 years old, Woody Allen led me into an attic, away from the babysitters who had been instructed never to leave me alone with him.
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While Rebecca's life is an open book, Priscilla is private — a dynamic yet contained character whom anyone who's spent time with middle-class American parents and their babysitters will recognize all too well.
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New Yorkers frequently hire babysitters and housecleaners in cash and do not file the required tax forms; waiters may pocket tips without keeping a tally for the I.R.S. Cash's fungibility enables slushy bookkeeping.
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Stalking into theaters a full four years before Michael Meyers started bothering babysitters in Halloween, this slasher has Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey and Andrea Martin playing sorority girls fleeing a mystery killer during Christmas.
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For example, a few years ago, people accused Alec and Hilaria Baldwin of being absent from their kids' lives after the actor kindly thanked five women, both nannies and babysitters, for their hard work.
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It's the latest in a string of exposed MongoDB databases found by Diachenko in recent months, including a popular virtual keyboard app with 31 million users and more recently an app for connecting babysitters.
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We couldn't just pack up our crew and take off for dinner at a restaurant, and I couldn't just make a simple Target run unless I had at least two babysitters or a grandparent.
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When they finally get around to talking (with prodding from their babysitters, Claire and Colleen), Luke gives Danny a much-needed dressing-down about his privilege – and Danny actually takes his words to heart.
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I, an admitted Pokémon nerd, 24-year-old freelance journalist, and admitted Craigslist hustler, decided to see if I could take the idea of Pokémon babysitters from the Nintendo game and become one IRL.
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In normal times, my husband and I lean heavily on an extended network of caregivers—grandparents, friends, babysitters, and daycare—for help with the monumental, sometimes mind-numbing task of caring for young children.
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Gen X, the first latchkey kids (working moms/divorced parents), whose TV babysitters (Peter Jennings, John Dean, Richard Nixon) provided a lovely background visual as "My Sharona" played a million times on the stereo.
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"We need to decide whether we all go to the park and look at other people's babysitters, or if we create something new, which would be preferable," he said, to laughter from the crowd.
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A handful of resorts, including Franklyn D. Resort in Runaway Bay, Jamaica, and the three Caribbean locations of Sandals' Beaches resorts, offer private "vacation nannies" — babysitters assigned to each family — at no additional cost.
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In their series, Hensley and Smedley talk about real issues, such as (somehow) finding the strength to exercise, diving into back-to-school season, babysitters, and—let's face it—how kids are walking germ factories.
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There's nothing wrong with being discerning when it comes to your child's daycare or babysitters, but one mom generated widespread outrage when she refused to send her child to a daycare with "extremely overweight" teachers.
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Parents are relying more than ever on digital babysitters and device-led playtime to entertain their children — and the wide range of content is making it increasingly difficult to monitor what their kids are seeing.
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The app can also create profiles for other family members and friends, as well as guests like dog walkers, babysitters, or house cleaners, who the camera can learn to recognize and omit from activity alerts.
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Members can use the San Francisco-based company's mobile app and website to ask their neighbors for advice on everything from babysitters to organizing local sports clubs or how to contend with household rodent invasions.
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Taking its cue from other popular sharing economy apps like Uber and Airbnb, the app allows parents to send details on how, where and when they need help at home to up to 20 babysitters.
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The problem is magnified by the fact that Japanese parents are generally reluctant to invite strangers into their homes to care for their children, making it harder to fill the gap with nannies or babysitters.
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Dutch parents often have a rich support network; the ideal child care structure consists of both parents working part-time, and the family getting additional help from both sets of grandparents, neighbors and local babysitters.
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In these documents, she claimed that Dr. Ablow had crossed multiple boundaries, overwhelming her with details about himself — that he had been attracted to his children's babysitters, for instance, and that his marriage was unfulfilling.
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Aaaaahhh remember the Baby-Sitters Club, that classic '80s and '90s children's book series about a group of babysitters who are just trying to earn a buck while also dealing with the challenges of growing up.
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Disabling that feature seems like a no-brainer now, but it was available for various situations, such as for parents who wanted security cameras in their children's rooms to keep an eye on nannies and babysitters.
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If an Incredibles 3 ever gets made or the franchise gets a spinoff, an adolescent Jack-Jack managing his powers himself, rather than flustering his babysitters, could be a great basis for the Parrs' next story.
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Up until now, no one in Otto's life — not his grandparents, or babysitters, or fellow 3-year-olds — has told him that boys do not wear dresses, said his mother, Lena Christiansson, 36, matter-of-factly.
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Many of them stayed home from work, hired babysitters or relatives, or signed up for "strike camps" that were hastily arranged at local sports facilities and community centers, where children played hangman and Uno on Thursday.
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Supervised by babysitters, children can decorate cookies, do arts and crafts, watch a showing of "The Polar Express," and ring in the New Year independently, and then they meet up with their parents at 5003 a.m.
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Through thousands of hours in the company of whales, I have come to know them as individuals, as brothers and sisters, as mothers and babysitters, and as a community of families living together in the Caribbean Sea.
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According to docs, obtained by TMZ, the judge ruled Norma Gibson can't expect Tyrese to reimburse her for babysitters to watch their 11-year-old daughter, Shayla ... if Norma's running "non-work errands" or running her household.
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First, his connection to the 1986 film goes far beyond having his 18-month old striped-pajama-wearing self whisked away by David Bowie's Jareth the Goblin King to be subjected to magic dances and goblin babysitters.
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It is not uncommon for parents to make child care decisions based on feedback from their peers, and hire caretakers — nannies or babysitters — who are paid off the books, in cash, parents and experts in the industry said.
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Van Etten said she was open to more acting following her forthcoming appearance in the second season of "The OA," and has been working on writing comedy, including a personal project about a mother's relationship with her babysitters.
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They looked after each other for years as babysitters, hairdressers, cooks and whatever else they needed, in the century-old brick apartment building at 2363 Prospect Avenue in Belmont, just as their family had done back in Jamaica.
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"I have long maintained that when I was 7 years old, Woody Allen led me into an attic, away from the babysitters who had been instructed never to leave me alone with him," Farrow wrote in the L.A. Times.
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Mexico's Congress voted to grant the country's cleaners, cooks, babysitters, gardeners, caretakers and other domestic workers basic labor rights like limited work hours and paid vacations on Tuesday, in a momentous victory for a historically disenfranchised part of society.
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Obviously they should not be remunarated like a doctor or whatever; but the government should give them a little salary just like babysitters are paid to take care of children and like cleaning women get paid for cleaning houses.
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Among students of the subject, the assumption is that this cash is overwhelmingly used for activities that evade tax but are otherwise legal (for instance, paying workers, from builders to babysitters, off the books) but also for outright crime.
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With parents using artificial intelligence to scan prospective babysitters' social media and an endless slew of articles explaining how your résumé can "beat the bots," you might be wondering whether a robot will be offering you your next job.
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Nest thinks the tags are perfect for children, other family members, or for temporary access like babysitters and dog walkers, and you can set temporary access time limits on the tags by time of day and day of the week.
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Every month, Vida Verde workers give 20 percent of their earnings to the co-op to pay for an office, a coordinator's salary, babysitters for meetings, and, sometimes, a stipend if a member of the coop falls sick and cannot work.
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Mehala also can't bring any visitors to the house (including babysitters); she can't have deliveries to the address, and she has postponed a place on a university course because she simply wouldn't be able to study in the busy communal areas.
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But the question that has haunted Ms. Krim and her husband, Kevin, as well as innumerable other New York parents who must rely on others for child care, from babysitters to au pairs, is this: Why did Ms. Ortega do it?
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" It's less common and more concerning for children to have tantrums regularly with babysitters or teachers, and in fact, Dr. Egger said, "kids who have tantrums outside of the home at school and day care, at church, outside, that's another flag.
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In general, parents are facing a Catch-22 when it comes to paying for child care: Americans now have to put in more work hours to generally to make ends meet, which requires spending more on day care and babysitters.
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And though "Best Babysitters Ever," with its trail of gut-busters, may appear to be the least serious of the three, even that book deals with feelings of abandonment and loneliness, proving that tragedy plus time-honored humiliations equals comedy.
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Kraft will pay up to $100 per mom to cover bills for babysitters hired this Sunday, May 12, during Mother's Day, if they choose to get away to a movie, or a restaurant, or perhaps just a few precious moments of silence.
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Screenshot: PredictimPredictim, a service that sells parents the opportunity to screen potential babysitters by crawling social media, the web, and criminal databases, has announced it'll be taking a step back and rethinking its approach after a wave of bad press and public criticism.
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That assessment comes from Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Global Research's head of high yield and relative value strategy, who said Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and her global central banking counterparts have been reduced to little more than high ranking babysitters.
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John Carpenter's original 1978 film Halloween was one of the first mainstream films to claim a place in the slasher genre, and Michael Myers — the escaped mental hospital patient with a vendetta against babysitters — one of this sect of horror's first household names.
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This is a technology that excels at finding connections, and this can lead to all sorts of spurious analyses: from scanning babysitters' social media posts to detect their "attitude" to analyzing corporate transcripts of earnings calls to try to predict stock prices.
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In New York City, in particular, where improvised extended families are commonplace, such a ruling would risk emboldening people who, having been invited into the lives of single parents, then object to being asked to leave: neighbors, babysitters, childless friends, siblings, flings.
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John Carpenter's relentlessly terrifying masterpiece about babysitters and the murderous Michael Myers has been imitated, paid homage to and remade (an update of the original opens Friday) so many times since its premiere in 1978 that its radicalism is easy to overlook.
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Babysitters put on The Exorcist in the living room, and I only pretended to go to sleep, then sat cross-legged on the second floor, head thrust between the banister rails, intent on learning what happens when a demon possesses a little girl.
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It was only in the first few pages, when Gillibrand relays the story of the strong women in her own family, that I wondered whether she wrote this book to educate children or to woo their parents (or babysitters of voting age).
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Worried that overtime rules would break their budget, some opposed the Obama administration's effort to cover home care aides under the Fair Labor Standards Act, from which they had been excluded based on the outdated argument that they were little more than babysitters.
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After four years of matching basketball calendars to Colleen's biological clock to plan births for the off-season, timing recruiting calls around nap schedules, and wrestling with nanny problems and a merry-go-round of fill-in babysitters, they needed a change.
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"Trump will try his best to avoid the public on his trip, but with Trump Baby flying we're sending a very clear message of solidarity to those affected by his despicable politics," said Ajuub Faraji, one of the organisers who label themselves Trump blimp "Babysitters".
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As People pointed out, the couple is also getting a chance to explore the walled Medieval city known from its markets filled with textiles, pottery and jewelry on their own, thanks to a couple of babysitters: Teigen's hairstylist Jen Atkin and photographer Mike Rosenthal.
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But while you're busy checking off all of your must haves, it's important not to forget your guests — many of whom travel long distances, line up babysitters, take time off of work, and spend a lot of money to share in this momentous occasion.
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"Trump will try his best to avoid the public on his trip, but with Trump Baby flying we're sending a very clear message of solidarity to those affected by his despicable politics," said Ajuub Faraji, one of the organizers who label themselves Trump blimp "Babysitters".
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It wasn't because of Oscar winner and box office sensation Rain Man, which I was too young for; it was, of all things, a Baby-Sitters Club book called Kristy and the Secret of Susan, where one of the babysitters tends to an autistic girl.
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Aja: I think it's worth asking, too, if "surface pleasures" could or should incorporate girl-driven tropes, instead of just, for example, taking all the great girl babysitters of the '80s — Adventures in Babysitting, The Baby-Sitters Club — and giving their tropes to Steve.
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I had to use it as catch-up money—for all the food and travel when we visited the hospital, or for babysitters to watch the other kids when I had to run to the hospital on a moment's notice, because I was worried about Michael.
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"Many people in our society are used to only seeing women of color in subservient positions, and think of them in stereotypical ways: as housekeepers, domestic workers, babysitters, service workers," Soraya Chemaly, a feminist writer and author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, told Vox.
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They snapped a pic and posted the photo to an app called Nextdoor, which was made in an effort to foster a sense of community in neighborhoods, creating a space for users to sell items, put together watch groups, and post ads for things like babysitters — and lost and found dogs.
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That makes you feel good, but one of the most difficult things with babysitters after finding one is you've got to pay them in cash, and you've got to have that cash on hand, and they've got to understand how they're going to accept the payment, so maybe creating something seamless for them.
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It's just one of a host of life-altering measures taken to preserve public health, and it has ripple effects: rising child care costs for parents, suppliers losing out on cafeteria food orders, babysitters and nannies in flux, and loneliness and tech glitches for kids in online classes, to name a few.
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You new moms know what it's like those first six months — no time for a shower, let alone calling five potential babysitters while you run to the butcher to finally buy something for dinner that your husband does not have to pick up, bring home, unwrap and then eat out of a carton.
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In one of the earliest moves to bring employee benefits to workers in the so-called gig economy, an online marketplace that connects millions of families with babysitters, nannies and caregivers announced on Wednesday that it would provide up to $500 a year for workers to use for health care, transportation or education expenses.
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It's a big area, though, and tourists mix among the residents: bun-headed dancers heading to Steps on Broadway, upstairs from Fairway, for warm-ups; writers nabbing prime spots in coffee shops; parents and babysitters shepherding children to and from school, activities and the parks; musicians carrying their instruments in black cases on their backs.
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Predictim was a lightning rod, perhaps, because they overreached in scanning a particularly sensitive cohort—I asked the founders repeatedly if they wanted to live in a world where casual posts between friends could determine employment eligibility, even among teenage babysitters, and they demurred, or spoke to the parents' "absolute right" to know everything about sitters.
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The YouTube channel "Fantastic Adventures" has amassed 800,000 followers with its depiction of a family of children fighting super villains and outwitting evil babysitters—but in real life, these kids were reportedly being horrifically abused by their adoptive mother, who allegedly punished them by locking them in a closet for days, starving them, and dousing them with pepper spray.
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You mean most TVs, obviously, you have a subscription to it, so the marginal cost of watching that next Netflix or HBO show is zero, and the marginal cost of going to see a movie is substantial, especially if you have kids and need babysitters and everything, so you've got so many good options for zero dollars.
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Step 2: Build a solid support network where you're not afraid to ask for helpThe second important step for working parents to take is to build a solid support network of babysitters, neighbors, grandparents, friends, and other working parents who either regularly help out with or provide reliable backup for their childcare and family logistics needs.
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If you're a parent who has felt conflicted about giving your young children more screen time, I hereby give you permission to use whatever tools you have at your disposal to cope with your new reality of full-time parenting, full-time working, all without the help of school, daycare, friends, grandparents, neighborhood babysitters, and social activities.
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One part of the problem is that early-years care is not often thought of as early-years education, and in keeping with that, the people providing that care are often thought of as babysitters rather than educators, with little in the way of providing ongoing training and support for best practices around fun activities that help with child development.
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The company does have more discounted options than ever — there are $25 rush tickets, student ticket offers, "Fridays Under 40" discounts — but many of them place the onus on operagoers to figure them out, and some, like rush tickets, require a degree of last-minute flexibility that is hard for people who need to, say, engage babysitters or plan ahead.
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Gender, race, sexuality, class, age, religion, and other signifiers fall by the wayside if you're able to rent a nice-but-not-that-nice hotel room, and that allows Room 104 to play host to everyone from beleaguered babysitters to MMA fighters just scraping by and hoping to get a big payout to an elderly couple celebrating over 50 years of marriage.
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Sure, the Baby-Sitters Club books have been successfully adapted into graphic novels that today's kids gobble up, but given that "Best Babysitters Ever" plays off some serious '80s nostalgia, a question lurks: Is the book bound to entice parents and librarians who harbor dear memories of cuddling up with their own super-special editions, more than it will speak to children?
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Though more than 90 percent of sexual assaults on children are committed by people known to the victims — about one in three of those by family members and the rest by others close to them such as friends, babysitters and child care providers, according to statistics from the Justice Department — many restrictions, like the Pokémon one, appear to be aimed at reducing the risk of assaults by strangers, Ms. Page said.
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