Hot on HuffPost Parents:
Emme: Disney's Out of Character
masalamommas: How To Give Your Teen Dating Advice When You've Never…
Worst Babysitter Ever?
Filed under: Opinions
They've never found Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster? I don't think so.But The Worst Babysitter In The History of Babysitting? Yep. I think this is her.
Let's look at the facts.
Brandy Albright was babysitting a 2 year old boy in Port St. Lucie, Florida. She fell asleep. OK, it happens.
But wait.
She fell asleep on the toilet. Hm. That's not good.
The boy wandered outside. He was found either in "an alligator-infested canal" or near a "busy highway" depending on which report you believe. I'm not sure which is worse, but certainly neither one is good. Also not good: The kid was wearing a shirt smeared with feces.
One more thing: Police found a bottle of OxyContin in the house. That could explain the whole falling asleep on the toilet thing, and the fact that it took the cops two minutes to rouse Ms. Albright from her slumber.
According to CBS News, the child is now with his mother after a brief stop at the Department of Children and Families.
We don't want to make light of this. It's a terrible story. On the other hand, it does make me realize how lucky I've been. When you leave your kids with a babysitter, that's a huge responsibility. Sometimes it's a person whom you know very well, like a grandparent (if they're interested, that is). But what about that friend of a friend who shows up and seems perfectly normal -- until you come home from "date night" to find that she turned one of your son's Transformers into a bong.
Luckily that's never happened to me. I have had babysitters who bailed at the last minute, though, and one who showed up with a friend and informed me that she couldn't make it but her friend would be happy to take the job. Since my son was still a baby at the time, I declined and made other arrangements.
But that's nothing. We know there are millions of stories out there and we want to hear them.
What's your babysitting nightmare? Share your story with us in the comments.
Your<span>Voice</span>
Ask Us Anything About Parenting
TheTalkies:RelatedVideos
-
Jonah Hill's 'Insane, Messed-Up' Sitter
A slimmed-down Jonah Hill proudly premiered his new out-of-control comedy The Sitter in New York. The star sums it all up on the red carpet, saying, "I play the world's worst babysitter in the most hardcore, R-rated, insane, messed-up babysitting movie ever made." In theaters Friday, the film also stars Sam Rockwell, Method Man, Max Records and Ari Graynor and is directed by Pineapple Express helmer David Gordon Green.
-
How Babysitters Can Help Working Parents
In Chapter 4 of 9, education assessment and evaluation psychometrician and mother of two Diana Wilmot discusses how to manage a career, a marriage, and children with grandparents 3000 miles away. Wilmot highlights how important babysitters and nannies can be to provide support around the house both when parents are home as well as when they are not. She believes that babysitters need not replace parents but rather may often be helpful to support a parent in need of additional support.
-
What Makes a Great Babysitter
We ask what makes a babysitter great to our panel of expert parents and members of our non-studio bar audience. Watch as a collective portrait of the ideal babysitter emerges from a smallish tavern in Austin.
-
How to Find a Good Babysitter
This educational resource is a useful time-saver that will enable you to get good at babysitters. Watch our video on How To Search For A Good Babysitter from one of Videojug's experts.
SitesWeLove
- Site Map
- |
- Staff
- |
- Terms of Service
- |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Trademarks
- |
- Advertise With Us
- |
- About Our Ads
- |
- AOL Downloads
- |
- Contact Us
- |
© Copyright 2012 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Aol Family
ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
4-16-2009 @ 11:30PM
Anita said...The worst story I know did not happen to me but to a friend of mine a few years ago. She hired an middle aged adult woman as a full time sitter while she worked outside the home. She got home one day, during the first week she had gone back to work and found the woman drunk and passed out on the living room couch. Like the above story, she was hard to rouse so she went to find her two girls who were playing in the toilet upstairs. When she came back down the woman was gone and the cops found her a few doors down hiding in a neighbor's garage. Just plain creepy.
Reply
4-23-2009 @ 11:27PM
Rachel said...Well, let's see...my parents hired this woman to babysit me and my brother. She was a former co-worker of my dad's but had been laid off and needed a job, so she volunteered and my parents agreed. She used to leave us alone at the pool at her apartment complex while she went to get stuff at her apartment (no where near the pool, mind you), she had us listening to music that was WAY beyond our years (Nine Inch Nails' "Closer"), and she took us to the cemetary to visit her friend's grave and explained to us that he commited suicide and told us exactly how he blew his brains out. Needless to say, she lasted about a month. She actually just got arrested a month ago on kidnapping charges(she and her boyfriend kidnapped a guy for $500)...she obviously continued to be a winner...
Reply