Complete practical guide
The babysitting book that starts with an evening on which nothing bad happened
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on paid babysitting as a side hustle - why the account of the evening is the product, why you never decide what is safe for somebody else's child, and the number that counts the minutes nobody could account for.
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What this guide is
Most guides to babysitting are about being good with children. All true, and none of it is where this work fails. This book opens on an ordinary Friday. Rae had sat for the same family most Fridays for a year - two children, six and three, a nice house, parents who paid on time. Somewhere between half past seven and eight the six-year-old heard the neighbour's cat outside, opened the front door, walked into a dark garden, stood there, and came back in. Rae was on the sofa ten feet away with a phone, and did not hear the door. Two days later he mentioned it to his mother, who asked the only question there was: how long was he outside? Rae could not answer - not because the record was thin, but because Rae had not known it happened at all. Nothing bad happened that evening. The child came back in. Which is exactly why it is the failure worth building a book around: the outcome was luck, and luck is not a system. You are the only adult in a house with children who cannot reliably report on what occurred. The account of the evening is going to be yours. The only question is whether you will have one.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- Four rules covering what actually ends these arrangements - attention, whose rules apply, who decides what is safe, and the concern you have to raise
- Why you never promise a child that you will not tell, and what to say instead
- The medication line stated in one sentence, and the half of it that sitters actually break
- Supervision by age, and the mixed-age house where one child's standard is applied to both
- The family interview and house file - what you cannot find out at eight o'clock on the night
- The handover and the handback: the two points where nearly every complaint in this trade is created
- Unaccounted minutes - the number where a long run of zero means the counting stopped
- Why getting home safely is a business cost, and must never be a decision you make at midnight
- Why growth cannot be more evenings, and what it has to be instead
- 148 AI prompts with the constraints written in, and not one that takes a child's information
Ideal for
People already babysitting for friends, neighbours and family without an agreement, without insurance, without paediatric first aid and without a written record of a single evening; students and shift workers looking for evening income; parents and former childcare workers sitting locally; and anybody who has been doing this for years and has never been asked a question they could not answer.
- Anyone starting paid babysitting alongside other work.
- Anybody already sitting for friends and neighbours who has never written a record of a single evening and has not yet been asked a question they could not answer.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with four rules written where they will see them before a booking, paediatric first aid booked in person and practically assessed, a background check and insurance in force with the exclusions read, the minimum age and registration and ratio line established with the responsible body, the local and out-of-hours safeguarding route confirmed in advance, two written refusal lists, a family interview done in the house with the children met, a house file read back to the parents, an emergency sheet with every number verified with the provider and printed on the fridge, a medical and allergy record in which 'none' is written explicitly, a signed authorisation to seek treatment, a collection list with named people and a password, a routine and bedtime sheet written by the parents, a handover checklist and a ten-second spoken refusal script, a booking record written before leaving the house, an honest count of unaccounted minutes, a handback that leads with whatever happened, prices built from the true cost of an evening including getting home, a late-finish charge that is actually charged, three reserves, and thirty-day and ninety-day launch plans.
A complete working system for paid babysitting alongside other work - built on four rules covering undivided attention, whose house rules apply, who decides what is safe for a child, and the duty to speak up without ever promising a child secrecy - with the booking record written before leaving treated as the actual product and two operational numbers, one of which counts the minutes nobody could account for.
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