Overprotective dad fires babysitter for allowing 4-year-old to eat 11 packs of gummy bears: 'Nobody with judgment that poor should be trusted with anything of value'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jun 22, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

The limit (or lack thereof) that you put on your kid's sugar intake is one of those classic moral quandaries that can define you as a parent. On the one hand, giving them free rein to eat whatever processed garbage they feel like is probably going to end badly; on the other, if you strictly limit these so-called 'bad' foods, they will likely take whatever opportunity they can to gorge themselves on them whenever you're not looking.

This is a dilemma that one dad found himself facing after he fired a babysitter for not moderating how much candy his 4-year-old ate. Claiming that the young woman had allowed the child to eat 11 packs of gummy bears, some fellow parents were aghast—but others thought he was doing a lot of unnecessary pearl-clutching. Let's be real, it's likely that the sitter ate most of those tiny packets herself and was trying to cover her tracks. 

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  • 01
    "As a father, I feel your pain"
    via Patrick Fore
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    Brandon Avedikian ❤ @bavedikian Follow A babysitter allowed our 4 year old to eat 11 packs of gummy bears today. When my wife discovered this, she asked the babysitter why she allowed this to happen. The response: "She kept asking for more." I told my wife not to let that babysitter anywhere near our children ever again. Nobody with that poor of judgment should be trusted with anything of value. Period.
    via bavedikian
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    Mike Holden @mikeholden ⚫ 3d Replying to @bavedikian • My kids want the babysitter's number.
    via mikeholden
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    Bryan Sparks @TheGinger Roofer ⚫ 3d Replying to @bavedikian : My friends older sister kept making him babysit her kids twice a month "so they could bond" The last Saturday he had them he took them to 7-11 for Slurpees and a donut about an hour before she picked them up.
    via TheGingerRoofer
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    Jake Kucheck @TheSFGiantsGuy • 3d Replying to @bavedikian Read this too quickly, and thought it said 11 gummy bears. Was thinking, hmm yeah that's kind of a lot, but this guy sounds like he's sorta overreacting that's like less than one pack. 11 packs! 13 178 1.5K ili 426K ☐∞ 8 @bavedikian 3d Brandon Avedikian Yes my wife walked into a pile of empty gummy bear packages. I thought she was joking when she told me as it was difficult to believe an adult could be so incompetent!
    via TheSFGiantsGuy
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    Alex Friedman @heyalexfried....3h: Replying to @bavedikian 11 PACKS???? Q1 tz 516 ☐ ∞ Brandon Avedikian @bavedikian ⚫ 3h • Yes. Insane!
    via heyalexfriedman
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    JPLisdorf @JPLisdorf 3d Replying to @bavedikian • First of all, I hope your 4-year old is alright. As a father I feel your pain. While I completely agree that the individual lacks some basic skills to babysit, the obvious question is; who hired them and why wasn't this flaw uncovered sooner? Q67 1722 Brandon Avedikian 308 ili 240K @bavedikian .3d My wife did. She is very good at hiring babysitters and has great instincts but this one was a rare miss.
    via JPLisdorf
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    boz @s_bostrom .3d Replying to @bavedikian How old was the babysitter? Tbh, if this was a teenager, you have to take it with a grain of salt. 2 221 199 ili 109K ☐ ∞ @bavedikian. 3d Brandon Avedikian Agreed but she's at least 20
    via s_bostrum
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    maus @Maus Ricochet 3d Replying to @bavedikian So 121 grams of sugar or nearly 800 calories. Ridiculous. 17 176 BLACK FOREST. So Juicy So Good" Nutrition Facts 65 servings per container Serving size 1 pouch (23g) Calories 70 Total Fell 0% Saturated Fat 0g 0% DaFat O Cholesterol Ong 0% Sodium Ong 0% Total Carbohydrate 10g 2% Dietary Fiber 0 0% Total Sugars 15g Includes 11 Added Sugars 22% Protein 1g Vit D op 0% Calcium ng 0% Putas Amg 0% CAR COLERS BLACK CARD AND LOCAL JUCE CA and P AKCE CHERRY L
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    sheologian @sheologian 1d • That no one in the comments has figured out that being sugar police parents is exactly why when they have someone less upright they will push the limits and eat as much as they can, is a lot. There are like 4 gummy bears in those "packs." Unclench.
    via sheologian
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    Lucy Huber @clhubes 1d • Before I even read the thread I KNEW it would be the Costco gummy bears which are like five gummy bears to a packet.
    via clhubes
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    RCTroutman @RCTroutman8 • 2d Replying to @bavedikian I mean, did anyone die? Was anyone severely hurt? Is your child diabetic? So she made a mistake, now she knows. Why so dramatic? Have you ever done anything stupid when it comes to your kids? Life is only as dramatic as you make it.
    via RCTroutman8
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    T Todd's Low Gun @Todwalog. 2d Replying to @bavedikian Plot twist: Your daughter only had 1 pack. Babysitter ate 10 and was too embarrassed to admit it.
    via Todwalog
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    lilchiva @lilchiva - 2d Replying to @bavedikian Bro you put a million packs of gummy bears in your home. Then you paid someone, a comparatively low wage, to watch your kids, expected them to make better choices than you or your wife do, and, also, submit themselves to an entirely avoidable tantrum. You're a mediocre parent.
    via lilchiva
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    Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW - 3d Replying to @bavedikian Teen babysitters are basically big kids watching little kids I've found the best thing to do as a parent and employer is to set expectations up front "The kids may have ONE treat after dinner" will suffice Bedtime is iPads or TV turned off by time :
    via texasrunnerDFW
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    Snail Sanctuary @snailsanctuary . 1d ...just so everyone is clear how few gummy bears we're talking about BLACK FOREST ORGANIC GUNNY BEARS
    via snailsanctuary
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    beet @friendlyghoul • 17h a couple funny things about this 1) his wife seems to the be the only person in charge of the hiring of the babysitter 2) everyone is acting like his kid is going to slip into a coma from eating too many gummy bears 3) he doesn't even know how old the babysitter is
    via friendlyghoul
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    cam @woxcee⚫ 1d The 4 year old when they find out their favorite babysitter is no longer coming back because they fed them 11 packs of gummy bears in one day
    via woxcee
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    • Greta Ripperda @greta_ripperda ⚫ 1d This is so funny to me because as a babysitter, obviously the babysitter ate a lot of gummy bears and just claimed it was the 4yo eating all of them. Like...they found 11 empty gummy bear packets? I'd bet 6 of them were eaten by the babysitter lol.
    via greta_ripperda
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    ben (unintelligible) flores @limitlessjest Follow Eating 11 packs of gummy bears won't hurt your kid in any way that matters. But I might be concerned that if my kid eats that many gummy bears that I haven't given them ample opportunity to learn how to moderate what they eat -- perhaps because I always control it for them
    via limitlessjest
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    Heather Hogan @theheatherhogan .1d We're really robbing kids these days of the crucial life experience of throwing up an entire bottle of Flintstone vitamins.
    via theheatherhogan

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