I mean, he came out of the closet to be a hairdresser. And there is not a thing wrong with that. It's just adorable, even if I am cringing at the idea of a 4 year old with scissors.
Its Shar Let him cry it out? He’d get tired eventually. You can’t give into everything all the time and I certainly wouldn’t let him cut my hair to stop a tantrum?
Literally anything except give in to his tantrum. A simple, “I’m sorry you’re upset that you can’t play Barber Shop, but we can’t be cutting each other’s hair without your parents being here and without their permission. There are lots of other games that we can play. When you’re done, come out and we’ll play together.” But DON’T just let a child throw a fit, give in, and let him cut your hair 🤦🏻♀️.
Its Shar No? She never walked away and let him tantrum it out, she gave in and let him cut her hair. Walking away from the tantrum after giving him options is all she needed to do.
I agree with all of you, but keep in mind she was probably in high school when this happened and this sounds like this was her first baby sitting job. I know that at 16 I wouldn’t know what to do, especially if the other child was distraught from his tantrum.
I was a babysitter for many years and the first story sounds pretty bad, although I'm not sure why she didn't get the parent involved. The second story sounds pretty normal. Kids at that age have really bad separation anxiety.
when my sister was 3 she found scissors and went to by baby sisters hair ((she was 1)) and cut over every single strand she had which left her bald thank god she was a baby and not any older! ahah
Yeah, some kids make me feel the same way. 🤣 This is why I don’t like how people parent either. lol Kids are hard for sure!! (I’m a mom of 2 & an Aunt to 7) but my goodness, us adults need to know what we are doing so we don’t raise monsters lol. (Some of my nieces and nephews are fricken NIGHTMARES!!!! I won’t even babysit some of my own relatives) 😳🤣🤣 lol
My first time babysitting - I was 14 and watching a 2 yr old and a 5 yr old (both boys)... while I was feeding the 2 yr old, the 5 yr old ran out on the deck and peed all over the sliding glass door... then proceeded to "clean it" by grabbing the hose... there was water and pee all over the kitchen 😱🤣
My horror story: I was babysitting my neighbors who had 3 kids and a dog. Their kids were wild, aged 12 b, 8g, and 6g. It was pretty easy and we were having a nice night. The girls had made a mess in the closet with dress up, but nothing too bad. Then, the evening took a turn. The older girl and boy were playing nicely, but the little girl was not. She was escalating and wanted to pierce her ears. She grabbed her moms earrings and trying to pierce it. When I told her no, she was crying and screaming and it was pretty bad. I told her she needed to stop, and that led to more screaming. Then I let her siblings watch a show, but I told her she had to calm down to watch. Then more screaming. Finally it was bed time, they were all sleeping in the same room because they were redoing the upper floor. Well I put them all to sleep and the littlest needs a story. The. Another. And so on and so forth. I laid with her, snuggled, and then I finally had to leave so the others could sleep. Two minutes later, I was cleaning up when she runs in and said she peed the bed. I knew she wasn’t asleep, her siblings knew, so I had to go clean up. Meanwhile the mom was supposed to be home an hour ago and I have no word from her. The girl wants me to tuck her in again but I say no because I have to clean up the mess she peed everywhere at 6 six years old on purpose! The mom comes home, I tell her what happened and she says she will have a word with the girl. I never heard anything like an apology. I got paid $60 for watching 3 kids for almost 6 hours, and we had worked out the price beforehand. So yeah, she called me back to babysit but now I say I’m busy🤷♀️
“kIdS aRe SUch A BleSsInG.” Okay. I’ve had diarrhea that was a blessing under the circumstances, but that doesn’t mean I want it as a steady part of my life.
My babysitting horror story: I was babysitting 2 boys ages 2 and 3 I gave them lollipops and the other brother threw his brothers away (I didn't notice) he cried for 2 and 1/2 hours untill I realized he just wanted another lollipop before that I tried feeding him and he threw it all over me and I tried giving him his favorite fruit punch another shirt of mine ruined that was the worst babysitting experience everrrr
@@mgomez6480 so that the 2 year old is left treated unfair and the 3 year old learns, that if no one looks he can bully his brother and his brother gets punished for expressing his feelings of the situation? I think the true moral of the story should be to figure out what caused the tantrum and look at options that could be, even if they not obviouse right away.
@@hannah_baker210 at that age!? Wow I hope the parents started seeing a speech therapist... Or a doc. In generell. But no matter that fact, they can still communicate through body language/signs. And the lolli must have went somewhere. Idk how big lollis in your area are but in my they are pretty small and the stalk can be easily swallowed. So the fact that you left them unwatched with this kind of danger is questionable
Random story about me .. When i was about 7 i went through a faze of not wanting to brush my hair and so eventually my hair got so knotted that my mom had to try and brush my hair out for an hour and couldnt get the knots out and i was ligit crying because it hurt and so my mom ended up having to cut the knot out of my hair lol 😬
the second girl i relate to so hard, i also had to babysit a 2 year old with severe separation issues, except i had to babysit this child for 12 HOURS, and the mom (a single mom) lived in one part of a two family house with two other women and their children, so we were pretty much contained to their 'room' which was about the size of a dorm room. the only thing that would stop this child from crying was watching 'tigger finds his family', so that is the story of how i watched the tigger movie 8 and a half times in one day (we're not even going to get started on the toxic waste poop explosion that happened that day either)
When I'm babysitting and the kids are really attached, I take them away from the front doors and windows and play with them or we watch a movie before the parents actually leave, it usually takes awhile for them to figure out the parents have been gone
I’ve never had any real horror stories while babysitting, but I’ve had times when I’ve had to comfort the littlest one who was upset after the parents or mom left. And I’ve had times when kids have gotten hurt while I was babysitting (a family with three boys), but for the most part, babysitting hasn’t been too bad for me
I had great experiences and babysat long term with several families. But I always felt I was very lucky. Never got paid much, but we always had fun. Worst one was watching two small children, age 6 and 4. But then also having a 6mo. old. It was rough.
Ok I’m really confused. I have a friend named Maren and she has a younger brother named jacob who would be 4 if she was 6. They live in a cute residential area as well so I’m gonna ask her if this happened to her. Edit: I asked them and I can confirm it was them. Second edit: The first story was fake. I asked the parents and everything, it’s fake.
I had to work in a nursery as part of my college course and everything was great, the staff were super nice and the kids were so sweet. Except for this one girl, she was a nightmare and she always threw a tantrum if she didn't get her way. Like one time, it was almost lunch time and all the kids were tidying up the toys and the girl wanted to wear a princess dress and she brought it to me to help her put it on and a told her nicely that she couldn't right now and she started screaming while lying on the floor. I tried to take the dress away but she scratched my hand and I started bleeding, it took 4 teachers to hold her down so she wouldn't kick or hit me so I could take the dress and one of them picked her up and marched her to the bathroom so she could wash her hands and she was still screaming as they carried her.
last time i babysitted it was from 7 am to 5 pm and i kept taking bathroom breaks every hour in the bathroom where i would hysterically cry because i wanted to leave
For the "Barber shop story what she should have said to get the boy to stop crying is that he could cut a barbies hair thats what I always did when I was young and had the urge to cut hair
I couldn't be a baby sitter. The second they started screaming and ripping stuff up and being brats and all that I'd smack em.(in like- A spanking way. Not abusive way. ) Sorry, but like.... Misbehaving is misbehaving
I was babysitting four kids, youngest is 4 year old, and she throws a tantrum because I won't let her eat used gum off of the floor. Like, hitting, scratching, biting, everything. So I lock her in a room with me so she can't attack her siblings, leaving the 11-year-old to kind of supervise the others. And through the door I hear a timid knock, and between the screams in my eardrum the oldest boy is politely telling me how his brother is drinking milk straight from the carton. ...yeah
Your kidding I'm 12 years old and I have 2 brothers and 1 sister and they make crazy shouting screaming crying fighting nobody could make them happy my brother 10 yrs ( he has autisum ) and the other brother is 7 and my sister is 2 yrs If you agree that siblings or babysitting kids are annoying put a like in this comment
my friend and i babysat two kids, they were all good and well until we went to bed after we put them to sleep. when my friend and i woke up, the little girl broke both the bedroom doors so the kids could get out of their rooms, they flooded the upstairs by plugging the toilet, and destroyed the kitchen. i refuse to babysit now😂
This isn’t much of a horror story, but here goes. Around last year, my mom and I babysat a 7 year old girl during spring break (it was mainly my mom babysitting her, but I did help watch her on occasion). Everything was fine at first, and the worst thing she did was watch annoying Roblox roleplay videos at max volume which woke me up at 8 AM (she also was a bit irritating sometimes due to her not being, well, the brightest crayon in the bunch, but that’s not what this story’s about). That was, until my mom noticed her scratching her head a lot. She asked why, and she just shrugged her shoulders. The next day, we find a rash on her back. So then, we told her mom about it, and she said she’ll take her to the doctor. A little while later (after spring break), we were told to babysit her again. So we asked her (the girl) if she ever went to the doctor, and she shook her head. She then told us that she did go to her school nurse, and she told her to “put cream” on her head. Days later, when I was in school, I had the sudden urge to itch my head, and.....ew......a bug! I told my parents about it and then we went to the hair salon. Turns out that little girl gave me lice. After that, we never babysat her again because we could no longer trust her mother (she never told us that her daughter had lice). That was probably my worst babysitting experience so far.
A couple months ago I was babysitting 4 kids ages 2, 4, 6 and 8 and I look away for one second to say something to the 2 y/o and when I turn around I see the the boys (4 y/o and 8 y/o) getting red paint on the white walls, I don't even know where they got the paint especially in the time span of literally 2 seconds
Ameya..chantel left back in October, so they hadn't been posting with her. And, Freddy left after that.. Devin made her own channel, left, and it all fell apart. It's really sad but they all have a channel called unladylike
@@nkatt5989 Did Freddie leave? Her IG and Twitter say she's at Buzzfeed and she did a couple videos on As/Is. But the last year of Ladylike wasn't that good. They were just hanging on.
@@recoil53 Idk, if I'm remembering right, I think they kind of got fed up about when Buzzfeed wanted to start having merch or something with their likenesses on it without paying them a single extra cent for doing so. It's one thing for some of their creative ideas to be the property of a corporation forever. It's a whole other thing when it becomes more involved than that.
I'm scared to babysit anymore because it's like I always get the problematic kids. I once babysat a brother and sister (who were maybe six and four) while the parents were home. They were located on a lake and had a boat and a pontoon. That day the little boy asked if he could go on the pontoon. I told him we could do it later. Not five minutes later he asks again and I say, again, we will do it later. I was with his sister helping her with something when I realized that the brother was no longer next to me. I immediately realized where he was and rushed to the dock. I see him paddling away on the pontoon and yell for him to come back. He refuses to. Then his little sister mentions he's never been on the pontoon by himself, which makes me realize he's going to get stranded in the middle of the lake. I rush to his Dad and tell him what happened. Then the three of us rushed back to the dock and the Dad starts yelling at his son to turn around. The boy does so immediately, and gets a lecture. I think that was the last time I babysat for them.
I was babysitting one time for a family I had never met. They just moved to town. So I get asked to come over, and they have 5 boys under the age of 9. The mom was like “just make sure that the gate is closed if they want to play outside and I just cleaned the toy room so try to keep them out of there. Easy enough. Well, I left the boys for literally ONE minute to go to the bathroom, and all three of their dogs had gotten out the back gate. My first instinct was to try and get them back, lure them with a treat or something. Nothinggg worked. I eventually chased them down and had to carry their 80 pound dogs back home. When I finally had that under control, I checked on the younger boys and all of the toys in the playroom were dumped out. It was the worst. But it gets better. My mom recently got remarried and the family lives on the exact same street of the house we moved into. We haven’t ever talked since that day 😌
So, I’m one of 11 kids. I’m the middle child. One time when I was 12, my family went to go to the library but I didn’t want to go, so they let me stay home and babysit the then 2 year old, who was sleeping. Soon after they left, she woke up, realized I was the only one there, and started bawling. I tried so hard to calm her down; I put on calming music, read to her, got out coloring supplies, snuggled, turned on teletubbies... but she just wouldn’t stop crying. After like an hour of me just sitting there trying to get her to stop, I realize she should drink water, having been crying nonstop for so long. But she refused water. I was getting so stressed, but eventually I calmed her a little. She took a small nap. Now, at this point it had been hours, and it was dark out. My family had run into some problems with gas and picking up an older sibling from a meeting with some friends, so I was left there with a crying child for like 4 hours. She woke up again, and started crying again, but by then I knew I couldn’t do much to get her to stop, so I just let mindless nursery rhymes play in the background while I tried to read, holding her as she cried. I don’t even remember what happened when my family got home, although it probably had something to do with sleep. That was the day I discovered baby shark, btw
when I was 13 or 14 I was babysitting this family that had two girls. One was 2 and one was in first grade. Normally things were great and the girls were really sweet and well behaved, but one day I came to babysit like normal and there was another girl there. Apparently they were having a sleepover and the parents didn’t tell me. I was like “um ok? Shouldn’t be too bad just kinda wish they’d told me before hand.” Things were going really well until J (I’ll just call her that for now. The first grader) started laughing and crying at the same time in a kind of crazy manor. I tried to get her to calm down but she started saying random nonsense. Now I know that some kids do this stuff but in general J was pretty responsible for her age and sweet. She started saying that she was a tree all the while laughing and crying her friend was just kinda watching and so was her sister. The parents were supposed to be home soon but they ended up being about an hour late. When they finally came home I just casually let them know what happened trying to hide the fact that I was actually pretty scared. Later I had texted them and let them know that it was ok that they had a friend over but that next time they should probably let me know in advance and that I will charge a bit more. Then the mom went all weird and ballistic on me saying that I already overcharged (pretty sure it was like $12 for 2 kids and hour :/) and I tried to be polite about it. Then all of the sudden she fired me over text for doing nothing wrong. It was really weird too because the kids loved me like they would sometimes beg me to stay and cry when I left. Welp that’s my horror story.
i’m 14 and only babysat 2 separate families because i’m pretty new but here’s my horror story. i got offered to babysit two kids (i can’t remember exactly how old but i think 10b and 3g) and when i walked into their house...it was a MESSA, it smelt horrible and had mold everywhere and ants and no trash cans ANYWHERE. their house was a hoarder house.but i continued to babysit them. besides the house being a disaster, the little girl was still in diapers, not pull ups or anything and that sucked because i had to change her (even her room was a mess and dirty diapers were everywhere) and one of the times i was watching her, her brother was out with the parents and she was ready to go to bed but needs a bottle (her brother taught me how to specifically make it so i knew before hand) i made it, gave it to her like usual and i went back downstairs to chill...then i hear crying so i go back upstairs and she threw up everywhere. i tried to get her out of her bed and she threw up on me and the floor...it was disgusting to say the least. then finally the parents came back, i told them and yeah...
My babysitting days were AWFUL. My landlady has 3 grandchildren. I needed some extra money. She needed babysitting. It was perfect...Until it wasn't. I quickly learned that all three of these children don't listen or tolerate not getting what they want when they want it. Long story short, I stuck with it for 3 week, and then quit. The last straw was when the 3 year old dropped his pants and purposefully peed all over my area rug.
Every parent of a small child knows that in the midst of a big tantrum there is NOTHING you can do to make it better, not even the things that normally make them happy. They just have to get through it to the end and it's good for you to be a calm, quiet presence in case they calm down and need a hug or some cuddles.
my old sitter who was awesome said she had kids she had sat, one of which (the brother) threw a butchers knife across the room at his sister!! They were literally 10 and 12. my sitter never went back 0-0
Babysitters should have a very carefree and stress-free. For what some of them have to de with, they should be paid WAY more than they do! A child should listen and obey whatever the Babysitter says and there should never be any back talk or arguing.
