What duties are involved in a babysitter job?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, many babysitters do not take their jobs seriously. They believe that their sole responsibility is to keep the child or children alive and healthy while they parents are gone. In truth, this is only a small, though obviously important, part of a babysitter's duties. A decent babysitter should consider themselves to be substitute parents in the absence of the child's actual parents. This means that the babysitter's duties include keeping the child safe, playing with the child in a way that will make the child feel loved and respected, teaching the child and enriching his or her educational life by playing educational games and reading, feeding the child healthy snacks and meals, and otherwise working diligently to help the child grow into the type of person the child's parents want and deserve. The duties of a babysitter are therefore many, varied and solemn. If you do not believe that you can provide these services, you should find another line of work.