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Subject: Re: Smoking while babysitting

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Caitlin

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Date Posted: 22:02:35 05/21/07 Mon
In reply to: Lisa K. 's message, "Re: Smoking while babysitting" on 18:07:24 05/18/07 Fri

Hey Lisa,

I would love to smoke while babysitting. I agree the kids would have more respect for me. Not that they don't already but it would give me an older, more mature look.

I thought Mrs. Rossi would get upset when Justin told her that I was outside wearing two pairs of kneesocks. She was cool with that and I have since worn two pairs of kneesocks to other babysitting jobs. I remember Mrs. Phillips commenting "how kinky" and told me she used to wear three or four pairs when she was a teenager back in the 80's. Mr. Phillips half joking and half serious said just don't invite any boys over.

My parents hate when I wear two pairs of socks and give me a hard time for going outside without shoes. Of course that's no where near as bad as smoking. I am not sure how to approach the subject with the families I babysit. Maybe I'll get easier once I start to smoke regularly. Right now I am just smoking on the weekends and I wouldn't want those whom I babysit to know since I'd be afraid they'd casually mention it to my parents.

Kate

>Hey Kate! Thanks for responding!!!
>
>If you think can, light up a cigarette casually while
>you're babysitting. See how the kids act around you.
>I'd say ask the parents first tho. I always asked
>first and of the dozen or so smoking and non-smoking
>families I sat for from when I was 13 to when I went
>to college, I was allowed to smoke openly in most of
>the homes where the parents smoked too. If they didn't
>smoke I didn't ask, but I prefered to sit for smoking
>families for that very reason.
>
>How much respect do the kids you sit for have for you?
>What do you do when they get into trouble? For me,
>some families just told me to put them in time-out,
>but that didn't always work so I was sometimes allowed
>to give the kids a spanking. If I had to do that, I
>found that lighting up a cigarette before giving a kid
>a spanking helped calm my nerves for the task at hand.
>That may sound weird and some people think spanking is
>totally wrong, but it worked.
>
>I'll be going home for summer break soon and I've
>already talked to a couple of the families I babysat
>for and they've asked me to sit for them again this
>summer.
>
>See Ya.
>Lisa

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