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Help! Babysitting tips please?
Seven Kids. Three of which are still in diapers. Three sitters. Six hours. Please help! Me and two friends are taking on this babysitting challenge and I need all the help I can get from the Yahoo Community! Tips on...
-Ideas to keep the kids occupied
-how to keep the kids safely occupied
-How to multitask
We've babysat before... I love little kids but seven of them for six hours?
All answers and contributions HIGHLY APPRECIATED!!!
Anyone?? Please??? I need this b4 2morrow
Thanks for all of the contributions so far- this is great!
Any other suggestions on what else I should bring in my Babysitting bag?
Very great- I've heard a lot about the older kids helping. Usually we don't let them help- but that's a great idea!
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
put in a movie or put newspaper on the table and have them play with playdoh or paint. Our babysitter used to have use try to drop clothespins in a cup over the back of a chair. i've heard of people putting shaving cream on a glass table and letting the kids draw in that.
You can always read to them or play games. to multitask just fingure out who the most mischevious one is and make sure you all pay attention to him and 2 other kids. if each person gets an older one and a younger one then it shouldn't be TOO hard.
You can also tell the older kids that aren't mischevious that they can be your helpers and watch the younger kids.
- 1 decade ago
i've baby sat 4 kids at one time by myself.and i baby say from 6pm-2am. it's difficult but i can be done. 1 was a week old, one was 1, one was 2 and 1 was 4 years old. I put on old cartoons from when i was little like the flinstones and the jetsons because it was shows that they never seen before and it really got them into it. I also put one of them in a playpen with a bunch of toys and another in a high chair with cherri-o's. that let me focus on the tiny one. and mind u 3/4 were in diapers. When i needed to change one i put the baby in the car seat and took care of the two others that needed to be changed. The 4 year old was pretty bad. he didnt want to listen to me at all, but when he wanted me to do things for him, i told him no because he was mean to be and he didnt wanna listen. he apologized and he stuck by myside the rest of the night, he was an angel. tip.. get the older ones to help you out. even if they are 3 or 4 they can help by doing little things. Make them feel older like they are baby sitting u know? By the time their parents came home, all of them were sleeping and i was relaxing on the couch watching tv with baby.
good luck!
- 1 decade ago
Music is always a good chioce and a variety of games that involve movement,Movemaent is good!!!! i am a mother of two but used to watch my sis kids all the time and they loved games and songs they were all 5 and under and there were 4 of them and it was just me.. You might ask the older kids to help they love that!!!Assign kids to sitters and then switch out so the tiny tots dont get bored!!
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