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The Community Babysitting Club - Sunday 1st February 2015
Approximate $ Savings: $1000 plus
Finding ourselves new to a community and without family nearby a group of families formed a babysitting club. We knew each other through the school, had a meeting to gauge interest then family picnic to familiarize everyone. Rules were simple: 4 points an hour, double past midnight or before 7. Everyone kept their own book and you would sign off on each others books. Meetings every 6 months to 'check in'. Result: total confidence leaving your kids; great community building; increased social life; and the added bonus- baby sitting in others home enabled you to relax and read once the kids had gone to bed. All with absolutely no cost involved.
Contributed by Evelyn Chapman
Finding ourselves new to a community and without family nearby a group of families formed a babysitting club. We knew each other through the school, had a meeting to gauge interest then family picnic to familiarize everyone. Rules were simple: 4 points an hour, double past midnight or before 7. Everyone kept their own book and you would sign off on each others books. Meetings every 6 months to 'check in'. Result: total confidence leaving your kids; great community building; increased social life; and the added bonus- baby sitting in others home enabled you to relax and read once the kids had gone to bed. All with absolutely no cost involved.
Contributed by Evelyn Chapman