| When my children reached the age where I felt | | | | lengths to insure their caregiver quality with |
| comfortable leaving them in the care of a babysitter, | | | | background checks, experience, and sometimes |
| I had one problem: I didn't know any babysitters in | | | | formal education. My husband and I couldn't really |
| the neighborhood! I had just moved to a new city | | | | afford one of these nannies, but we didn't want to |
| about eight months ago, and I was still getting to | | | | go with a complete stranger off the internet either. |
| know my neighbors and make new friends. My kids | | | | |
| were now 3 and 6 years old, so I felt the most | | | | But that's the beauty of a website called This is the |
| worrisome infant and toddler time was over and I | | | | website my husband's coworker was referring to, |
| could leave my children with a babysitter and not be | | | | and it is the solution to our problem. I went online |
| wracked with anxiety. My husband and I could really | | | | with my husband, and we looked at numerous |
| use a couple date nights, because it seemed we | | | | babysitter profiles and the parental forum to see |
| never had a moment alone anymore to keep the | | | | what other parents had to say about the sitters on |
| romance in our marriage going. I didn't know what to | | | | the site. In our area, there were several well qualified |
| do about our babysitting dilemma until my husband's | | | | babysitters who came with fantastic |
| coworker told him about a finding a sitter online. | | | | recommendations from parents they work for, and |
| | | | | many of them have even taken extensive babysitter |
| I wasn't too sure about this idea, because we have | | | | courses and first aid training. Phew! I was so relieved |
| all heard online dating or online apartment hunting | | | | to find a website that put us in contact with reliable |
| horror stories. The problem with trying to find a new | | | | and recommended babysitters, and the site was free |
| babysitter online is that I didn't want to leave my | | | | to use. That's right, free! We found an affordable |
| kids with some stranger we happened to come | | | | babysitter close by our new home, and we couldn't |
| across, a person whom we could not really know | | | | have been happier with her. Our kids just loved her, |
| anything about. There are professional nanny | | | | and my husband and are able to go out on date |
| services, however they charge an exorbitant rate for | | | | nights a couple times a month now that we found |
| their childcare givers, because they go to great | | | | such a great resource. |