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>I actually never did any babysitting. We had a few >parents from the lumber yard and a few parents that we >went to church with who asked me, at one point or >another, if I would sit for them. > >I always referred them to Nicole, who actually enjoyed >sitting. > >Also at the boy's school one of the teachers asked me >to sit for her nieces and nephews on one occasion. But >my reasoning for never taking any of the above up on >those opportunities, was because I saw babysitting as >a girl's job. > >Whether right or wrong, I could never quite get my >head past that perception as a Preteen and Teenager. I >was a boy, boys didn't babysit in my mind. > >On one occasion, I did sit in with Nicole while she >was sitting for someone we knew. But the people who >hired her, knew about it and were cool with it. I was >specifically there in case we needed to lift the kid >as he was not really able to move on his own. > >(Cerebral Palsy or something like that.) > >My point is that I certainly never paddled anyone's >kids. I never really paddled my own boys. Corporal >punishment was on the table, if I had felt that I >needed it. But my boys were behaved enough, I had no >trouble getting through to them. So why do it, if it's >not needed? > >And my boys grew up to be good people. So I must have >did something right.

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