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October 28, 2025 10 mins

Paulina needs more help with baby Gigi and is looking for a nanny and she is shocked at what people are charging for childcare.

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Speaker 1 (00:33):
Paulina, Yes go, thank you so much, dear blog. I've
been out of.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
The babysitting game for a minute. Okay, I used to
be a babysitter nanny. If you will, and I will,
you will, I will because I'm much because these girls
are they make money.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Honey. Okay, I know what's the set your one rate
kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I want to be clear, and you should absolutely be
paid what you are owed and what you deserve.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
And babysitting in childcare is no joke.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
That is a job and it's a difficult job and
for us, like I do know Kyleen needs to do
it too, like it was such a fun job like
when you're younger, especially in college.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
And I'm trying to expand my village right now.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
So I have my mother in law and I have
my mother, and then my sister in law is helping.
But next year things are going to change for her,
my sister in law, so she'll be out of the
picture completely for a little bit. And then my mother
in law works full time, so does my mom, and
everyone's got these opposite schedules. And I am so grateful
and blessed that we've gotten this far eighteen months in
where like I was able to really just lean on everybody,

(01:30):
and that is a blessing.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I don't take it for granted for a second.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
And I what I've been doing though, is getting like
little part time like babysitters, mostly people that I know.
So like if you had like a niece or something,
Freda or Kaylen or whatever, and then you'd be like, oh,
I'm sure, yeah, and she's live in our states and
I'm just trying a babysit gig, so you plus probably
wants tay bucks an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
And you know what, my girl deserves that. But at
the same time, we got to be a little realistic.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Okay, can I please read to you what a sitter
of tell me that she charges?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
And I don't think it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
How old is this person?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I want to say, maybe like twenty two to twenty.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Three, twenty three years. Okay, it's just like a side
job for this person.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
This is a side job. I believe she's still in
school one kid for one kid, and I'm then that
doesn't matter. And I used to hate this as a sitter,
Like I'm upstairs in the most part, like doing other
things like working and other stuff. So like I'm in
the building, but I need someone to like watch GGI
play with her, feed her lunch because I can't do both,
and then like be on a phone call or a
zoom or like, you know, do you like typing emails?

(02:29):
Like I can't do that with a two year old
or almost two year old, Like it's really difficult, you know,
when they're pulling your computer or they're on your leg screaming,
like it's really hard, and that's really embarrassing too when
you're on a call. So I'm like I and honestly too,
Like she has more fun with these sitters because they're
younger and they're fun. They want to like play. I
want to play too, but like we gig play all day.
So like it's fun when a new face comes and
she gets really excited. I've got two sitters that are

(02:50):
like on rotation. Their neighbors. They live like a couple
of houses down, very convenient neighbors are Also, these girls
are also in high school, so they've got school, which
is way more important than me. And then they've got
extra currire relativities. They've got the sports and this. Okay,
so I found this girl and she's really sweet and
I love her. But I just don't know if I'm
crazy or if I'm like missing something here.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Okay, she asked, you.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Know, hey, you're doing really well. Blah blah blah. She
goes for ongoing care. So I guess that means like
it's not like a we're not doing a set schedule.
It's more ongoing, if you will. Like there's no like
full time, part time position. It's like maybe like ten
hours in aney everything. Yeah, okay, my starting rate is
thirty dollars an hour.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay, I've heard of this.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
This isn't crazy, and I baby said before even fom
like celebrity kids like I've baby said Dave gir Old
kid like I've done all this. Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah,
I funny was there was a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah no, it's a really cool day. It was a
really cool day.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, how much does she want? Let's go. We got
to dial it in here.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
This an hour is is I'm not gonna say it's
crazy today because it's not like back then I charged fifteen.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'm gonna be so real. This is also like seven
years old, was.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Ten years ago?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Seven ten years ago? Okay, so we doubled the price.
Not terrible. I'm not massed.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
So she wants she's twenty something years old, she wants
thirty by an hour.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
There are forty year olds that I won't make thirty
dollars an hour. So I just feel like that's not
that age matters. But that's that's a lot. But hey
for great care, like I will pay that, and I
know a lot of parents will agree with that, but
it's a great sitter.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
You trust her.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I will pay my arm legg and kidney like for
a great sitter that my daughter loves not crazy. I'm
a little like whoa but like not crazy. Okay, this
is the part of lost me. And then she charges
a one hour fee to cover prep and travel time
each day.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Prep she prepares? She like prep like why are we
wacxing a vaccine for this? Like? What are we? Like? Prep? Like?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Is she now?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Hold on? Is she like teaching? Is there like is
there like a little program for the day? Like are
we doing our craps? And then she goes, no, I'm
being honest, like, wow, what are we what are we
prepping for? And I guess I figured that traffic time
or commute was just sort of rolled into the thirty
bucks an hour, which I think is I don't I

(04:54):
think for an adult. I think that's probably about right.
I think that's what my sister pays. Yeah, and it's
not for twenty something because it's a second job, and
that you're talking about an adult now, you're not talking
about a teenager, so the expectations higher.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
And it depends to like where you live, like what
city or like what state you like? The prices do
vary thirty dollars and we live in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I'm not mad at that. That's not. I'm not whatever,
I can do that. But I looked at this though,
and was like, WHOA.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
So I to prep and then to drive, and then
she says, I've been working with this mythology with families
who live more than three miles away.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Mythology.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, mythology. I'm like, methodology. Okay, so she's into mythology.
Now we're doing the same. But what what are we
teaching that? What sort of weird amivities are we into?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
She is she's worth thirty dollars and i'll pay them
telling I'll give you my kidney for a good sitter
or someone that can speak to me.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
She's going to teach your kid about zeus. I think
she I think you've met methodology, right.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, my bad? Yeah, okay, anyway, so okay, put three
miles away. So I have a problem with that.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Wait, so you're paying an hour for commutants three hours
or three miles, So.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
If you're more than three away, she'll charge you the feet.
We have a radius even, So that's what I'm saying.
I walk more than that a day.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
So I used to drive across like one time for
a baby, same job. I drove two hours when I
live in Los Angeles cause for it to go to
like Orange County, we're.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Talking about an hour and more in traffic, then maybe
maybe or like Maybee, like we're.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
In the same city unless you live like two hours away,
then tell me this is not going to work, right,
I'm not, We're not doing it.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Thirty bucks an hour doesn't surprise me. Actually the commute
time that you're paying for that kind of surprises me.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
And I'm just I'm going through the text messages here.
People are in shock, just as I am, because I'm confused.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
With the prep like exactly what are you prepping? You're
cover of resort fee like at a hotel, Like I
don't really know what I'm paying for?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Roll it in man like don't don't nickel and dime me,
Like I hate that, And I got theyve gotten rid
of a lot of resort fees too, cause for that reason,
cause you show up and you're like it' said two
hundred bucks a night.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
For the rooming the resort.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Now it is seven hundred dollars I check out. I'm like, wait,
what was all this all? Well? You know, did you
want to use like did you want to breathe? Like
do you want to use the hallways? Did you oh
you want to you didn't want to climb through the window? Well,
then sorry, then you're gonna have to pay it again
four feet. A lot of people, A lot of people, Uh,
forty five bucks a day, thirty dollars an hour is crazy.

(07:11):
People are saying they want to quit their job now
twenty bucks an hour? Look at me? Yeah, A lot
of people think it's it's a little bit high. What
is prep and drive charge? Babys hitting three miles thirty buck? Yeah? Again,
if you insisted on it, someone who lived, you know,
twenty miles away and was gonna have sit in traffic
for an hour and a half full time is money
and absolutely and so you know that costs and gas

(07:34):
is expensive. I guess I would get that. But then
you know, I think thirty bucks is high.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Is on the high side, on the high side it is,
so then.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
You're already charging a premium. Yes, so I don't know.
If you insist on that, then maybe you charge thirty
five an hour or something, and then it's looped in
because I get what am I getting? What is it?
Prep Are you showing up with? Like again, are you
showing up with a with a program or are we
doing arch and crafts? So are you showing up with
little clay? Are we doing ACKs? Do you bring your
own rag? Like? Or what are we doing here? And
then and then you have to pay for her food too.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
She didn't say that, but I always do as somebody
who like was a sitter, and then I hire sitters.
I will pay for lunch because I I'll order lunch
sometimes for the baby and me, and I'll be like, well,
what would you like, I'll get them what.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
That would be messed up if you ate in front
of her.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
No, that's really rude. Eve.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I'll leave alive food like I'll always get Like your
sister Amy, she does it too. I mean, Amanda, I'm
losing it today. Amanda orders food ordered food for them, right,
Yeah you should. I feed your babysitters, Yeah, feed your sitters.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
But it's expensive.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I mean, like you know, so like this weekend, I'm
gonna be there and on Saturday, she's hiring a babysitter.
And I believe this woman works at the school where
my sister is a counselor, and so she's like a teacher,
so she's legitimate, but couline and may know her, so
they there's like a comfort whatever. I think she's thirty
bucks an hour, and so if we go out for
three hours or four hours, you can add one hundred

(08:48):
and twenty bucks to whatever we did exactly. So you know,
you go have a nice dinner, however much that costs.
You go someplace real classy like Applebee's or something. You know,
you get three people, we all get the three for
me that's.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Kids, though usually people will charge more for multiple kids.
So thirty dollars for two kids is a nicety.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
But that's a racket because the native is already asleep.
But my sister is funny about this. My sister will
be like, no, no, no, if we're hiring a babysitter,
they're coming at five, we're gonna eat at six. I
don't care because that woman is going to get paid
to bathe my children right, put them down, Like we're
not doing the thing where the two kids are already
in bed, and I got to pay thirty bucks an

(09:26):
hour just to make sure they don't burn the house down. Like,
you know, my sister wants to get a little something.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Their money's worth, right exactly.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
So usually it's like they're coming at five thirty six.
I'll feed them dinner. I pay them for every hour,
but you got you're doing bath time and you're doing
nighttime whatever stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
But I love that she still pays them that rate
even when the kids are sleeping.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Because some people will fight on that shoe. It's so
weird to taking.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
They're like, oh, the kids are asleep, and it's like
that doesn't mean anything. The kid can wake up, the kid,
kid cry. The kid's next to me and it's happened
to me. It's midnight, and the kid's like not going
back to sleep because mom.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
And dad are not there. They don't want to go
back to sleep, you know, to be an alert.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, that would be so thing. If it's like forty
dollars for waking hours, thirty for sleeping.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
That's a menu of prices here.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
And it's like I refuse to pay that for sleeping hours. Well,
then I'm leaving your.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Kid like price you want them alive?

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, it's expensive. That's really expensive because again, you know
you're adding one hundred plus dollars to your date night. Yeah,
it's already you know, an adult date night with some
drinks and stuff. You know, come on, like talking one
hundred hundred fifty bucks go out to dinner, have some drinks.
Now two hundred and fifty bucks to go out for
three hours. You know, I can see why people wouldn't
do that, but yeah,

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