B1 – Intermediate
A babysitter is a person who takes care of children temporarily with the parents’ approval. There are different terms used for babysitters such as nannies and mother’s helpers. What do you think of a babysitter’s job?
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Discussion Questions:
- Is babysitting a common job in your country? Why or why not?
- Do you think a babysitter should have training for child care too? Explain why.
- In Spain, do babysitters receive good salary? Why do you think this is the case?
- Do you agree that babysitting is an easy way to make money? Explain.
- Is getting a babysitter to take care of your children part of the culture in your country? Share about this.
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Is babysitting a common job in your country? Why or why not?
At least in my environment it is not common. We use to ask grandparents or aunts/uncles to take care of our kids when we have to leave home. I think people don’t trust in someone too young as an adolescent to take care of kids.
Do you think a babysitter should have training for child care too? Explain why.
Well, this is the ideal of course, but provided that there is no law regulating this, babysitters will not spend money in a training that they don’t need, as it is not a difficult task.
In Spain, do babysitters receive good salary? Why do you think this is the case?
I don’t know how much they earn, actually.
Do you agree that babysitting is an easy way to make money? Explain.
It depends on what tasks the parents ask them to do with their kids. I mean, if they are so easy as the articles says of course it is. Otherwise, if they need to do a lot of things, cooking, etc. And of course if the kids are naughty or hyperactive…
Is getting a babysitter to take care of your children part of the culture in your country? Share about this.
No, as I said before it is not common so it is not a part of our culture.
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1. Is babysitting a common job in your country?
No, it isn´t
2. Do you think a babysitter should have training for child care too?
Yes, I think it will be a good thing for this kind of job, because you are responsible to take care kids. And when you have a job of babysitter you are very young too, you aren´t an adult.
3. In Spain, do babysitters receive good salary?
In Spain nobody receive good salary.
4. Do you agree that babysitting is an easy way to make money?
It depends on family, if you are working for a good family with polite kids and supportive parents.
5. Is getting a babysitter to take care of your children part of the culture in your country?
I don´t know, I haven´t sons. But I think that in Spain parents call a babysitter as last resort.
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1. Is babysitting a common job in your country?
Yes, it is usual.
2. Do you think a babysitter should have training for child care too?
I depend on the ages of the kids, if it is a newborn or around two or three years of course that you should have training for doing it.
3. In Spain, do babysitters receive good salary?
I don’t think so, I think that the pocket money is around 15 euros per hour.
4. Do you agree that babysitting is an easy way to make money?
Yes, it is.
5. Is getting a babysitter to take care of your children part of the culture in your country?
Yes, It is being a practice that the parents are using to take care of our kids.
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1. Is babysitting a common job in your country?
Yes, especially for young students.
2. Do you think a babysitter should have training for child care too?
Obviously, especially if you don’t know the children and the nanny is hired through an agency.
3. In Spain, do babysitters receive good salary?
I think not, but I really don’t have enough information on this topic.
4. Do you agree that babysitting is an easy way to make money?
Yes, especially for young students, but it is a job without guarantee and often paid with black money.
5. Is getting a babysitter to take care of your children part of the culture in your country?
It’s a way students use to earn some money, just like with other precarious jobs like teaching and helping other students with homework.
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1. Yes, well I think it is a common profession, in the whole world there is a mother who needs help
2. I wouldn’t say training but it is true that nannies who are mothers do it in a more natural way.
3. If they have papers, there is a minimum cost per hour that is regulated by law.
4. Yes, I did it a month before I got my papers and it helped me to have an extra income
5. I don’t think so, it is more common to have someone to help you with the cleaning before someone to take care of the children
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Is babysitting a common job in your country? Yes, it is. Overall people who have no family in your country need babysitters.
Do you think a babysitter should have training for child care too? I think we should learn first aid in case children get sick, fall, choke.
In Spain, do babysitters receive good salary? Oh, I don’t really know
Do you agree that babysitting is an easy way to make money? Yes, I agree, getting money for reading or watching TV is great!
Is getting a babysitter to take care of your children part of the culture in your country? Yes, it is quite common nowadays. The first jobs for young people are usually babysitting and teaching them after school.
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