J. Bouton wrote:My mommy made breakfast for me every morning all the way up until I left home. On my first day of work I didn't know how to make breakfast, I tried to make toast but I didn't know what bread looked like. They found my dead body next to a box of cereal. I didn't know how to open it.
LOL ... True story about the first time we hired a babysitter, I was working at our retail store 45 miles from the farm with our eldest 8 year old DD ... My mate wanted to get something done in the fields without the 4 younger DD's helping her ... She hired the neighbors teenager to stay at the house with them ... A couple hours later here come the kids out into the field eating PB&J's ... She asks where the babysitter is and they tell her she's sleeping upstairs ... They had asked her to make them some tuna salad sandwiches but the teenager didn't know how to use a manual can opener, gave up and fell asleep ... They figured PB&J's were quicker and maybe Mommy wanted one too ... They all had a picnic.
The second and last time we ever hired a babysitter a few years later went off without a hitch ... But we figured after that they were really better at taking care of themselves and didn't need one ... Except for that one time they wanted to see if they could stop the coffee grinder from spinning by sticking their fingers in it ...