For a while I didn't have a job,and my cousin asked me to watch her two week old daughter.The child is now three months old,I'm still watching her,and I'm still getting paid $40 a week for forty hours a week of babysitting.I buy packages of diapers, wipes and formula because often they aren't in the diaper bag when she's dropped off.(we live 20 miles out of town, so also figure gas getting to the store and back)The mother has paid me in quarters one week, and she's beginning to be late on paying me.I have two children, so I pretty much know what I'm doing, but she complains about how I take care of her daughter(she wanted me to keep the child up all day at a month old so she would"sleep all night") Where to draw the line between family and business?Should I feel taken advantage of?What is the right way to approach these problems?She says she will be geting on gov' subsidized child care to pay me, but the way she wants to do it is illegal.To top it off I really love the baby.
2006-07-14
08:10:01
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