What is legal age a child can babysit in Texas?

Answer 1

There is no law in Texas. The children must be safe, fell safe, and be able to handle emergencies. Babysitting a sibling is harder than babysitting someone else. Most authorities believe that 12 or 13 is okay, others feel it should be a bit older.

Answer 2

I think that they can be 12 or older . But it really does depend on how mature thay are ,and if the adults ,both their parent and the child's being babysitted's parent, should think that they are responsible enough.The Parent really should not hire just anybody ,the best thing to do is let someone you know that is good for the job.

Answer 3

The legal age for babysitting in Kansas is the age of 11. I had my 12-year-old watching her brother and sister when I would run to the store, post office, etc. and had a nosey neighbor decide he would inform me that my kids were not to be left alone with the oldest until she was 16 legally. So, I took it upon myself to call SRS and talk to them about it. They said 11 is the mininum for children to babysit other people's children not related to them but siblings babysitting siblings is another story and should just be handled on a maturity level basis. She said, granted, you need to have some common sense about it and realize that an 8-year-old being left home alone with a 2-year-old is not a good idea! But I asked her specifically if my 12-year-old could legally watch her 6-year-old sister and 1-year-old brother and she said there was not a thing illegal or wrong about that as long as I trusted her and she was a responsible kid. I promptly told my neighbor. This was the same neighbor who used to sleep all day while his 6 year old, 5 year old, and 3 year old would run wild around their house screaming and throwing things at my kids. When I asked where their Daddy was they would say "he's sleeping". Nice!

Answer 4

There is no law, however, they must be safe. Rule of thumb would be the ages of the kids plus the number of kids. 4+3+2+1+4 would be 14.

Answer 5

There is no legal age specified in Maryland. There are a number of factors, including the age of the children being watched. They must be able to handle any emergency that might arise.