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<p>Between the quarantine messing with our jobs, a stock market crash, and spending all our money on food delivery, these are tough times financially for a lot of people. But though cutting corners is recommended, some people think this mom took it too far in her quest to cut conserve cash&mdash;by trying to pay a babysitter well under minimum wage.</p><h2>A mom is <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/comments/fkvhhp/lady_wants_babysitter_to_watch_her_three_young/" target="_blank">being mocked</a> on Reddit for her Facebook post seeking a babysitter for her three kids&mdash;and she&#39;s only willing to pay $2.90 an hour.</h2><p>In the post, the mom writes that she&#39;s seeking a &quot;trustworthy&quot; babysitter for her 3 kids: a month old baby, a 1-year-old, and a 3-year-old. She explains that she would be willing to pay &quot;$160 a week&quot; for watching her kids 7 am to 6 pm during the week. This equates to under $3 an hour, which is a reasonable amount to pay your babysitter if she&#39;s 13 years old and it&#39;s 1994.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img src="https://i.redd.it/u33getvxfhn41.jpg" alt="Remote file" width="828" height="1407"></div></figure></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Maybe this mom is just really, really bad at math?! A commenter responded to her post, pointing out that $160 per week is a criminally low hourly wage. &quot;Do you realize that you are paying 3.50 per hour?&quot; they wrote (turns out it&#39;s even less!). &quot;For three children? And dropped off and picked up?&quot; The commenter then warned the mom to be &quot;very careful&quot; hiring someone for this little money as they &quot;may put your kids in danger.&quot;</p><h2>A screenshot of the original post was shared in the &quot;choosing beggars&quot; community on Reddit, where commenters are criticizing the mom for wanting to pay someone so little to care for her children.</h2><p>As <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Yukon_Kizmiaz/">Yukon_Kizmiaz</a> did the math and figured out that this woman is offering $2.91 an hour, which is less than a doller per child per hour.</p><blockquote> <p>Whomever replied got their math wrong. It&#39;s even less.</p> <p>The CB wants to pay 160 dollars a week for 55 hours of work per week - 5 days at 11 hours a day.</p> <p>160/55 = $2.91 an hour</p> <p>This woman is trying to find child care at less than a dollar per child per hour. I assume the babysitter, in addition to picking up and dropping off the children and spending her own gas money and vehicle wear and tear, would also be responsible for feeding three kids for free as well. At the end of it, the babysitter would essentially be paying the CB to watch her kids.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>To make things worse, the mom wants the babysitter to care for the kids in their own home&mdash;meaning they wouldn&#39;t even get free snacks and cable out of this bargain (and we all know free snacks and cable are the main perks of babysitting).</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/extrasassplease/">extrasassplease</a> writes:</p><blockquote> <p>And top it off she wants them staying at the babysitter&#39;s home</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Magiff/">Magiff</a> writes:</p><blockquote> <p>I couldn&rsquo;t even imagine doing this for $160 a day. This person is high on glue.</p> </blockquote><p>And <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PhenomenalPhoenix/">PhenomenalPhoenix</a> points out that this mom apparently cares more about the well-being of her stuff than her kids:</p><blockquote> <p>Right? She trusts her kids in the babysitter&rsquo;s home but doesn&rsquo;t trust the babysitter in her own home? She seems to be more worried about her belongings than about her children.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>People are sharing their own experiences as caregivers to provide some financial perspective.</h2><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/greffedufois/">greffedufois</a> made twice this much caring for an alzheimers patient:</p><blockquote> <p>What the hell, I made $300 a week caring for an alzheimers patient. She slept a lot but needed help getting to the toilet and with bathing, and I made her meals. And that&#39;s the low end of things.</p> <p>When she passed her son sent me a sort of severance package of 2 months extra pay plus a Christmas bonus. That was a whole rent payment ($700)</p> <p>I honestly can&#39;t imagine valuing your &#39;lights of your life&#39; so little that you&#39;re willing to leave them with whoever answers this ad. Likely nobody who should be around children.<button></button></p> </blockquote><p>And <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EdenEvelyn/">EdenEvelyn</a> cares for three kids and makes over five times as much as this mom is offering:</p><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;m a nanny who is currently caring for 3 boys aged 3, 4 and 8. When I have all 3 of them I make $20 an <strong>hour</strong>. Most days I work 8:30 to 5:00 and walk away with anywhere from $160 to $170. My job is hard and I wouldn&rsquo;t take any less, so the idea that someone could be expected to work 55 hours and make the same I do in 8 is baffling.</p> <p>How stupid do you have to be to even offer that?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lemonlady7/">lemonlady7</a>, a professional nanny and doula, says she sees this kind of behavior &quot;all the time&quot;:</p><blockquote> <p>As a professional nanny and doula, I can tell you that I see these kinds of listings and personally receive these sorts of offers <em>all of the time</em>. And they&rsquo;re almost always aholes when I (politely) reject the offer. It makes my blood boil.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/waltzingmatildas/">waltzingmatildas</a> confirms that this kind of behavior is &quot;common&quot;:</p><blockquote> <p>This was so common when I was a nanny. People want to pay you 2 or 5 dollars an hour to watch three kids all day.</p> </blockquote><p>It&#39;s important to take into consideration the heartbreaking reality that some parents simply cannot afford childcare. But at the same time, paying someone this little to care for children could potentially spell out a dangerous situation. What do you think? And do you have any advice for people struggling to find affordable childcare? </p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

People respond to mom's post seeking babysitter to care for 3 kids for under $3 an hour.

Between the quarantine messing with our jobs, a stock market crash, and spending all our money on food delivery, these are tough times financially for a lot of people. But though cutting corners is recommended, some people think this mom took it too far in her quest to cut conserve cash&mdash;by trying to pay a babysitter well under minimum wage.A mom is being mocked on Reddit for her Facebook post seeking a babysitter for her three kids&mdash;and she&#39;s only willing to pay $2.90 an hour.In the post, the mom writes that she&#39;s seeking a &quot;trustworthy&quot; babysitter for her 3 kids: a month old baby, a 1-year-old, and a 3-year-old. She explains that she would be willing to pay &quot;$160 a week&quot; for watching her kids 7 am to 6 pm during the week. This equates to under $3 an hour, which is a reasonable amount to pay your babysitter if she&#39;s 13 years old and it&#39;s 1994.Maybe this mom is just really, really bad at math?! A commenter responded to her post, pointing out that $160 per week is a criminally low hourly wage. &quot;Do you realize that you are paying 3.50 per hour?&quot; they wrote (turns out it&#39;s even less!). &quot;For three children? And dropped off and picked up?&quot; The commenter then warned the mom to be &quot;very careful&quot; hiring someone for this little money as they &quot;may put your kids in danger.&quot;A screenshot of the original post was shared in the &quot;choosing beggars&quot; community on Reddit, where commenters are criticizing the mom for wanting to pay someone so little to care for her children.As Yukon_Kizmiaz did the math and figured out that this woman is offering $2.91 an hour, which is less than a doller per child per hour. Whomever replied got their math wrong. It&#39;s even less. The CB wants to pay 160 dollars a week for 55 hours of work per week - 5 days at 11 hours a day. 160/55 = $2.91 an hour This woman is trying to find child care at less than a dollar per child per hour. I assume the babysitter, in addition to picking up and dropping off the children and spending her own gas money and vehicle wear and tear, would also be responsible for feeding three kids for free as well. At the end of it, the babysitter would essentially be paying the CB to watch her kids. To make things worse, the mom wants the babysitter to care for the kids in their own home&mdash;meaning they wouldn&#39;t even get free snacks and cable out of this bargain (and we all know free snacks and cable are the main perks of babysitting).extrasassplease writes: And top it off she wants them staying at the babysitter&#39;s home Magiff writes: I couldn&rsquo;t even imagine doing this for $160 a day. This person is high on glue. And PhenomenalPhoenix points out that this mom apparently cares more about the well-being of her stuff than her kids: Right? She trusts her kids in the babysitter&rsquo;s home but doesn&rsquo;t trust the babysitter in her own home? She seems to be more worried about her belongings than about her children. People are sharing their own experiences as caregivers to provide some financial perspective.greffedufois made twice this much caring for an alzheimers patient: What the hell, I made $300 a week caring for an alzheimers patient. She slept a lot but needed help getting to the toilet and with bathing, and I made her meals. And that&#39;s the low end of things. When she passed her son sent me a sort of severance package of 2 months extra pay plus a Christmas bonus. That was a whole rent payment ($700) I honestly can&#39;t imagine valuing your &#39;lights of your life&#39; so little that you&#39;re willing to leave them with whoever answers this ad. Likely nobody who should be around children. And EdenEvelyn cares for three kids and makes over five times as much as this mom is offering: I&rsquo;m a nanny who is currently caring for 3 boys aged 3, 4 and 8. When I have all 3 of them I make $20 an hour. Most days I work 8:30 to 5:00 and walk away with anywhere from $160 to $170. My job is hard and I wouldn&rsquo;t take any less, so the idea that someone could be expected to work 55 hours and make the same I do in 8 is baffling. How stupid do you have to be to even offer that? lemonlady7, a professional nanny and doula, says she sees this kind of behavior &quot;all the time&quot;: As a professional nanny and doula, I can tell you that I see these kinds of listings and personally receive these sorts of offers all of the time. And they&rsquo;re almost always aholes when I (politely) reject the offer. It makes my blood boil. waltzingmatildas confirms that this kind of behavior is &quot;common&quot;: This was so common when I was a nanny. People want to pay you 2 or 5 dollars an hour to watch three kids all day. It&#39;s important to take into consideration the heartbreaking reality that some parents simply cannot afford childcare. But at the same time, paying someone this little to care for children could potentially spell out a dangerous situation. What do you think? And do you have any advice for people struggling to find affordable childcare? 

Between the quarantine messing with our jobs, a stock market crash, and spending all our money on food delivery, these are tough times financially for a lot of people. But though cutting corners is recommended, some people think this mom...