Mom refuses to pay babysitter $16/hour rate for 8 hour day, gets offended when she quits the job: 'She has been saying I'm unprofessional'

Most parents need occasional childcare, but many of them are not willing to pay the price for it.

Understandably, many moms and dads balk at the costs of daycare and babysitting. In this day and age, it can work out as one of the biggest expenses for working parents, and kids are expensive as it is.

At the same time, childcare professionals deserve to have their job taken seriously and to be given fair compensation for the work that they do. Holding full responsibility for someone else's kids for multiple hours a week is no light task.

Many babysitters find themselves in awkward positions with their clients, where they expect them to take on a lot of work for not enough pay. They have to weigh up the pros and cons between losing an income or retaining one that simply isn't good enough. It usually proves to be the better option for them to put their foot down and insist on a certain rate. Lowballing parents are a phenomenon that will not quit unless those who provide their childcare are not willing to budge on what they expect to be paid. It is an awkward fight to have, but a worthwhile one.

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Am I wrong for quitting a babysitting job on the spot after the mom insulted me?

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In this story, a babysitter had been watching two kids for an hour each morning before school. She had been doing this at an hourly rate of $16, getting the children ready for school and dropping them off.
The mom of this family asked if she would be able to watch them for eight hours a day during the school holidays, and she initially agreed. However, the mom wanted her to do this for a flat rate of $50 a day, which the babysitter did not feel was acceptable.
Things escalated, and the mom began to insult her and claim that she was greedy for wanting her normal hourly rate. This led to the babysitter quitting altogether, but she wasn't sure if she had taken things too far.

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