I get needing side jobs and needing to feed your family and pay your bills so take this with that in mind:

I wouldn't work for these guys because I don't respect their parenting choices. It would be a cold day in hail before I would allow a two year old to stay up for 13 hours straight so her parents could put her to bed the second I left. I wouldn't listen to a screaming five month old for thirteen hours. I wouldn't provide care for the kids while the Dad was in the house. I would have been willing to stay onsite to cover if he got called to work but I wouldn't have cared for the kids when he was able to do it.

I just couldn't do it no matter what the money was. I did a few years of caring for sibling groups in their homes on the weekends when my ds was little and it was AWESOME money.. but... I didn't have the parents telling me schedules or leaving me an untrained kid in undies. Once the parents left I did what I wanted to do. That's the only way "I" can care for kids.

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