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I think anytime you ask someone to watch your kid you should offer to compensate them.

I watch my nephew from 7am-6pm 4 days a week, my sister pays me $75 a week to help cover gas and activites. But watching him on the weekend now and again then no, I just do that to help my sister out.

i was having to pay my brother 10 dollars a day to watch my daugher who was awake and home litterally 2 hours and entertained her self and got her self ready for school everyday... now that they changed my schedule i dont feel as bad because he will have to have her 5 waking hours


but other family members offer to take her for free but i never ask.. i jus wait till someone wants her to have me time

Quoting .Twat.Waffle.:" What are your views on this? I could understand if they are used basically as a daycare, then yes, ... [snip!] ... once a month so you could go to work or have a little time to yourself.... do you think they should still be paid for that?"

If they want to or ask to be, then yes. My family watch my kids and I do not pay them for it. They really want to and would never accept any form of payment for it. Likewise, I watch kids in the family because we're family and I'd never ask for payment.

However, as an aside I guess, you should bring what the kid needs too. As in, I have a sister for whom family watches her kids constantly. She never even would bring clothes or diapers or ANYTHING so the family has to supply everything for the kids.

I think a lot depends on the family. I don't think someone is out of line for wanting to be paid (they are taking their time to watch the kid as a favor), but at the same time few families I know would want, expect, or even accept payment for that.

Unless they offer to do it for free, you should compensate them in some way, like offer to watch their kid in return or make them dinner, something. I think its rude to assume someone should watch your kid for free, especially if its because you want to go out or have time to your self.

I would always offer but my older family members would never take money from me. Say if I had younger cousins who wanted to babysit, I would pay them for sure and I know they would take it.

Mymotherwatches DD m-f Ipayher fifty a week

i usually leave $ for them to order food, but not pay them. the only people i leave my kids with is my parents and my mil, and both would be offended of i tried to ”pay” them for watching their grandchildren.

If I'm going to the store and mil watches dd then I try and grab like her fav candy or something (even though she normally doesn't eat it for whatever reason) but usually I don't bother bc she offers to watch dd lol

Oh, and kids do not count. Always pay kids (like, if they are younger, maybe even up to 20 years old, and are babysitting). Before I was thinking more of if it's aunts, grandparents, that sort of thing,

If they offer to take the child for a few hours so you can have some time alone, then no I don't think they should be paid. If you are asking them to watch your child, then you should pay them, or at least affer to pay them. My SIL will watch my daughter for free even if I ask but thats because we never have anyone watch her. SHe is 4 months old and we have gone out once without her.

If its everyday then absoultly. Just because they are family doesn't mean they should be taken advantage of. If its once in a while for a date or appt then I don't think it's a big deal, I always offer. If my mil or mom watches put kids they would never accept a payment.

I believe some form of compensation should be offered, whether it is money or offering to clean for them etc. My mother and grandma always wants to watch my LO and insists that I don't need to compensate them. They have actually offered to pay ME so they can have her for a few hours lol.

Unless they offer to watch the kids for free, they should be compensated. It's up to them.