Funny Babysitting Stories

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“While I was volunteering at this camp, we had someone who was volunteering as an art teacher, and they were drawing in class. So this kid came over, looked at what they were drawing, and asked them, ‘Why are you an art teacher if you’re no good at art?’ Luckily the teacher was also around our age, so she wasn’t very like she hadn’t dedicated her life to art or anything, but she just kind of laughed and was also in disbelief in the same way I was. It’s very interesting and funny to me just how differently minded they [children] are how kids can say things and how they’re so blunt with their observations.”

SOHA ROY

writer

Colleen Ranney

senior

“There is this one 6-year old that I babysit, she’s really fun. She’s a bit of a handful, but she’s really fun. One time her parents came home and her sister came home and she told me that she loved me more than her sister. I was like ‘oh’, and her sister was right there and it was kind of an awkward situation because her sister was like ‘oh’,” OLIVIA HWANG writer Naomi Murdock

senior

“One time I was babysitting twin boys that were like toddlers, and the mom wanted them to use actual cups to practice using them instead of bottles. I gave them each a cup of milk, and one of the twins spilled the milk on himself. The brother was watching his twin, and then he decided to be like his twin and do the same thing. I was making eye contact with the brother as he poured the milk onto himself to copy his twin. They started to laugh together at me since they knew that I was the one who needed to clean this up.”

EVAN LU

writer Lisa Davis

senior

“One night, my parents went out so I was in charge of watching my brother and he was kinda young, around 5, and all of a sudden, he told me that he would be happy if I died. When I asked him why he said that, he told me that because mommy and daddy would buy me a lot of toys. I was kinda surprised and I think he didn’t understand what death was and the seriousness of it and I still tease him about it. It’s something our family talks about.”

EVAN LU