I HATE this job! I need some help!

[honeybee28]

Well I started this babysitting job a week ago. All together I've been watching two boys for about two weeks now. I get paid 150 a week. I have to pick them up from school take them home...make lunch, give them naps, and help one of them with homework. They are 2 and 5 years old. IT IS DIFFICULT. I have never ever had trouble with children. These boys do NOT listen to me at all!!!!!!! Its like Im not even there. Whenever it is time for them to take naps they start getting naughty. The two year old starts crying histerically! I try to read to get them to go to sleep and that doesnt even work. They go off and do there own thing. I have to repeat myself so many times...they still dont listen.

Then I had a family emergency yesterday and wasnt able to watch them so their father had to get work off. He has a family business with his dad so he is like the 2nd person in charge...I felt bad because I knew he wouldnt get paid for that day, but I had to be there for my family member. So then he had a talk with me about him having to take work off, and that if I cant make it then he wanted to know if my mom could watch his kids because I told him that she doesnt work right now. But Im thinking to myself that even if my mom could watch them she wouldnt be able to make it either cause it was a family emergency it was her own sister in the hospital! Plus she has to take care of my brother and the house.

I dont feel comfortable around this family. I don't like the kids. I've babysat a lot of children and never had problems with them. The house is dirty, there's always ants and flies in the kitchen. I clean all their dirty dishes that gets piled up. I give the children all my energy trying to keep them happy and trying to get them to listen to me. I i wish I could have worked in retail or a fast food place than this. I just dont know what to tell the dad because I've only been babysitting for two weeks.

I just dont think its gonna work out...Im always stressing and Im already stressing enough with college. I dont know what to say or do

 

[Simply Elegant]

If it's causing you this much stress I think you should leave. If you can't or don't want to handle the kids, you can put in your 2 weeks notice and they'll find someone else like any retail job.

 

[Shimmer]

Tell them you think they need to find someone more compatible with the position, and refer them to local daycares.
I would say give them two weeks' notice but honestly, they'll more than likely shoo you off after you tell them you don't want to watch their demon spawn anymore.

 

[glam8babe]

babe you shouldnt do this! you say you hate it right.. well dont do it! nobody is forcing you to babysit

if you wana work in retail, then go for it

i wish you the best!

 

[honeybee28]

Yeah its just hard because I wanted it to be long term and it was hard for the dad to find a babysitter until I found him on craigslist. I really love children...I even signed up for nanny positions. But these kids are not nice at all. The 5 year old talks back to me saying that Im not his mother...and the two year old cries over the littlest thing. I think it could be because their mother isnt around all the time. I dont feel that this family is for me. I just dont know what to say to the dad. But yeah you are right I should give him a two weeks notice. I dont think I can handle it for long. *sigh*

 

[NicksWifey]

Don't give yourself more stress by putting up with this family & their kids. I wouldn't be afraid to tell them it's not working out and you'd like a clean break and go your seperate ways. There's no way in hell I could put up with that either, no matter how much $ I was getting paid.