Do you provide dinner for your babysitters?
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I've never really known what normal protocol looks like. Occasionally I have ordered a pizza or something, but does anyone have a standard practice on this?
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If the kids are eating dinner and she's at our house from before dinner time to after dinner time then I'll include her in whatever the kids are eating, usually pizza. If she's coming over later then I assume she's already eaten. Or sometimes I ask beforehand. But I don't order her dinner separate from the kids.
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I order pizza or Torchy’s to be delivered to the house if she’s going to be there during dinner and putting them to bed. If it’s later, then no! But I also find the eating can be a good distraction for me to scoot out of the house in front of my 2 year old without her really realizing 🤪
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Following so I can see comments. I am deep in this trap. I provided a DoorDash giftcard once and now I feel hostage to doing it every time because we use the same woman. But that's on top of the fee we pay by the hour, plus tip sooo ... yeah. I feel stuck though because otherwise, if she comes around the kids' bed/dinner time, I feel like she has nothing to eat and I don't really know what the alternative is?
