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When you’re getting ready to have a baby, there’s a lot to stress about. Will it be a boy or a girl? What color should we paint the nursery? How much will the birth cost? How about prenatal care? If your or your partner’s parents live nearby though, childcare is usually something you can cross off your list of concerns. There’ll always be someone close by who can babysit in a pinch. But one grandma has flipped the script on this issue and has demanded payment for childcare.
It seems like a pretty foreign concept to me. I’m not a grandparent but my mother is, and she jumps at the chance to watch her grandkids (although they’re now getting a little too old to be babysat). But one grandmother took to Reddit to ask if she was in the wrong.
“My daughter is 29, she has a 1-year-old son and will be returning to work soon. She works 5 days a week, about 7-8 hours a day from 7:30 am-3 pm, and asked me if I would be willing to babysit her son either 2 or 3 days a week.” She wrote.
“Of course I am open to spending time with my grandson, but I explained to her that I would like payment of $12/hour. She understood my need for payment but then lowballed me with requesting $10/hour because she claims that she cannot afford it even with her $22/hour job.”
“I’m not a daycare, I have my own life, I work for myself and I think she should understand that I’d be giving up my time when I work from home, and if I’m going to be giving up that time then I need money to replace that time I’m giving up from my job. “
“I love my grandson, but as I stated above, I’m not a daycare.”
Many of the comments said that a grandmother can not do such a thing but others are ok. What do you think of her actions? Would you do such a thing?
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