Anyone here ever have a crazy babysitter?

Well, mine was more of a daycare sitter since I was about 6 or 7. But let me tell you, that b**ch had some issues. She was nice when me and my mother first met her, but when my mom dropped me off at her house, she would turn into a whole new person. She had a daughter who was about 2 years younger than me who was a total brat. She would whine and scream at you for no reason, and I remember telling her to be quiet. Then her freak of a mother came in and would yell at me for treating her daughter badly (even though she was acting like a little troll!)
This woman also took care of other children, and we all knew that she was crazy. Whenever she took us anywhere, she would scold us as if she was the parent and told us to say "yes maam" and "thank you maam" to her ALL the time as if she was our biological mother. Plus she forced us to pray with her, and if we didn't, she would yell at us.
I told my mom about the whole situation and she soon got a better day care provider for me.

But yeah, it was pretty much as if I had Carrie's mom to look after me. If I could see her now, I would slap her and tell her to suck on my BIG FAT TOE!!!

Shortly after my parents had to fire our babysitter for stealing from us, she killed her boyfriend. She was fun, though!

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I can't even read the posts here because I know I'll get really upset, but I'm glad you're bringing up the subject. You can NEVER by too careful about who you leave your kids with.

I guess you weren't here for the saga of The Nanny Named Tang.

Not crazy, but definitely old-school: Mrs. Hainesworth beat our bare ass with a wooden spoon when we misbehaved.

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I don't remember the nanny or the incident, but I still have a scar on my forehead (think Harry Potter but less obvious and, well, lighting bolt shaped) from running into a China cabinet. I was about a year and a half.

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"Don't f--k with the babysitter."

No, sweetie.

You were the slutty baby sitter.

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Not all babysitters are mental! Take me for instance!

The only crazy experience I had while babysitting happened a few years ago. I had to be about 15 at the time and I was babysitting for a neighbor. There were two kids, aged roughly 8 and 13.

Their mother wasn't the most responsible. She would never give me a number to reach her by, never tell me when she was coming home and there were times where she had already left by the time I got to the house!

Either way, she was installing a new toilet bowl only it hadn't been completed yet and so only the pipe was sticking out where the bowl was in the downstairs bathroom. I was with Kristen (the 8 year old) making crafts with her when downstairs we heard a rumbling. The pipe was overflowing.

We mopped up the mess, cleaned ourselves up and went back upstairs. A half hour later it happened again!

We tried stopping it but didn't know how. I called my mother and she called her some neighbors.

Soon there were about 6 adults in the bathroom trying to figure out why turning off the water valve didn't work. Nobody could get the water to stop flowing.

In the end I had to call their dad who picked them up and brought them over to his house since their parents were divorced. Their mother came home to a downstairs flooded with sewage and a note on the door telling her where her children were. I babysat for the same family a week later.

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Updated On: 5/5/08 at 06:33 PM

Thank goodness I never had any babysitters like any of you have described. However, my parents decided one evening to take a walk around the block, leaving all four of us in the house alone for a little. We were only 8, 6, 4, and 2 at the time. I remember them leaving the front door wide open for some reason and my 8 year old sister and the 4 year old were arguing with each other. I forget what I was doing, but a little while later our neighbor came up the driveway carrying our 2 year old sister, who had walked out the door by herself looking for our parents, only wearing a diaper. Yeah, my parents never did that again. Fortunately, I think my sister was found on our driveway, and we live on a quiet street.

The only other story I can think of for bad babysitting is that my one grandma was just boring. She wouldn't play with us at all and cleaned. She also would barely let us touch our grandfather, although it was okay with him.

Now, my bad experiences were when I was in charge. I just ended up with 2 little boys who fought and beat each other up. Except for that, they weren't bad kids.

My other bad in charge story was for the 3 neighbor kids. They were new when I started babysitting them, and they were awful. They were spoiled and obsessed with stuffing junk like paper towels down my shirt and touching my boobs. They also did lame things like pulling down their pants, just to show off their butts. The one kid always threatened me with liking their other babysitter more. However, I think they pulled that on anyone who babysat them. And it turned out that nobody liked babysitting them at all. I mean, I'm talking about 3 or 4 different people who all didn't like these kids.

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Marianne- That sounds horrible!

The family I was describing in the last post consisted of an older 13 or so year old brother with his 8 year old sister.

The brother was only a little younger than myself and he used to terrorize his younger sister. I tried to stop him, but he was stronger than I was.

There was one time when he terrorized her so much that his sister (Kristen) ran into the bathroom and would not leave. I had to finally distract him at which point I could urge her out of the bathroom, run out the door, and rush her over to my house. Her mom didn't mind it when the older brother was home alone.

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