So…did you ever babysit before you had kids? Did it ever in some way prepare you for your own experience as a parent?
Im just wondering if there’s anybody in the history of mankind who has babysat for a child and thought..“hey parenting must be easy.” 
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I find babysitting draining. Whenever I have babysat and the baby starts crying I always want it to stop, so I will spend a lot of time comforting it, I feel like I can't let anybody elses child cry too long. I end up thinking if this was my baby I would leave it to cry itself to sleep but just cant bring myself to do that to anybody elses child.
I don't think "hey parenting must be easy." but I think 'if this was my child I would handle this situation in a different way'
But I'm a bad baby sitter, I end up giving a lollypop just to shut them up and get 20 mins peace, when I know I would never cheat like that with my own child.
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a lollypop can shut em up for 20 minutes? 
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Yea but not one of those sugar free ones, they don’t fall for those.
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Erm how old was the kid u babysat?
The only time my nephews will shut up is if they're sleeping. and then I miss them. :(
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Erm how old was the kid u babysat? The only time my nephews will shut up is if they're sleeping. and then I miss them. :(
About 7/8 months old. I know I am really bad!