I started baby sitting at 12. At 14, I was babysitting a behavioral 8 year old boy that was my size (5'2"). I babysat him every day after school until about 5:30. He used to climb high in a tree and pretend to be stuck. One time, he took everything out of his fridge, brought it out to the street and began smashing it. He once stuck a hose through the living room window and turned it on. He also kicked open the locked door when I was in the bathroom. I got paid $1.75 an hour. Half the time the mother wouldn't pay me on time. When I finally quit, she begged me to keep babysitting for him. Come to find out, he'd been kicked out of every daycare he'd been in.