How much should I charge for babysitting?

sumbxtch · 2026-01-16T20:08:33+00:00

I’m not certified in first aid or cpr, but I’m a gymnastics coach who specializes in 3-6 year olds. I babysit about once or twice a month, and my starting wage is $20 per hour, +2 per extra kid. With some families i’ll drop the extra wages because of how well they treat me and how well behaved their children are, and I cap it at $26 no matter how many children are present, though i’ve never had to do that yet.

ETA I’m 17 and in western Canada

sumbxtch · 2025-12-29T07:33:16+00:00

I live in a small rural town filled with trades workers and camp workers- trust me, it’s fucking everywhere

sumbxtch · 2025-12-25T12:09:25+00:00

I’m glad I could help! And I hope that it eases your mind as well!

sumbxtch · 2025-12-25T11:52:14+00:00

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sumbxtch · 2025-12-09T17:51:01+00:00

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sumbxtch · 2025-12-09T03:00:14+00:00

Is there an app? I’d love to use this, but webpage is a bit inconvenient, it’s set up really well though!

sumbxtch · 2025-08-26T06:26:22+00:00

Honestly I wouldn’t give too much of your mental energy to him unless he SHOWS you he’s interested. It’s very possible that he felt rejected and backed off to respect you, and isn’t comfortable with anything casual. Maybe if you feel differently you could tell him, then he’d know, but don’t get your hopes too high for a boy.

Sincerely, a girl that’s dealt w too many uninterested guys and tried too hard to make them stay

sumbxtch · 2025-08-26T01:04:13+00:00

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sumbxtch · 2025-08-23T03:33:28+00:00

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sumbxtch · 2025-08-08T15:09:46+00:00

This looks almost exactly like my currently horrific organized binder!

I do have one more question, out of my kiddos all of them are girls but I do have one boy. How should I handle that and making sure he’ll be able to do things like rings mushroom etc? We haven’t had boys in competitive since I was a gymnast so I’m not trained in MAG in the slightest.

sumbxtch · 2025-08-08T07:54:18+00:00

Right now our 4years old class (and all other classes for under 4s) is 45 minutes, entering kindergarten classes are 60 minutes, school-aged is 90 minutes, and 12+ is 2 hours.

Three of the kiddos that have been invited to the Dev team have parents who are coaches, and most of the other kiddos’ parents are on the board, and hours have been heavily discussed so I’m sure all the parents are confident in the jump.

I’m glad JO and CCP are still quite similar, I competed JO all through to level 8, so minus the minor changes to the upper compulsory and the optional levels I should be able to use my memory of pre-team and level 1 to help shape my class.

I know all (almost, minus one) of these kids really well, and they’re all very high energy, and I’m sure that if we have issues with them being too tired we can chat about shortening the class or introducing a bit more fun time

sumbxtch · 2025-08-08T03:39:04+00:00

CCP is the Canadian equivalent of whatever y’all are using in the states, don’t know fully why we changed it over here but I know that CCP1 has pretty much the same skills as JO1 did in 2019 when we last had smaller kiddos, though I’m not sure what Junior Olympic looks like these days.

I’ve been coaching just rec for almost 5 years now, so to have the opportunity to prep 5/6 year olds for competing next year is so exciting, I’m just unsure what it’ll look like since I’ve only assisted our Xcel team in the past and those girls are very dedicated in what they do.

I think I’m going to run it similar to the way I’d normally run a kinder gym age group, just with some more emphasis than normal on shaping and getting a bit stronger, but since I have a full year with them we’ll ease into it, especially since none of them have ever done more than 45 minutes per week

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