4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | This podcast contains adult language and content. |
0:03.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:05.2 | If you have a story to share, send it to Let's Not Meet Stories at gmail.com. |
0:09.9 | Enjoy the show. At the age of 12, I started babysitting for her family friends who had three daughters aged from four to seven. |
0:49.1 | They lived in a cul-de-sac where nearly every home housed a couple with children in elementary school. |
0:57.0 | The neighborhood was extremely close-knit and reminiscent of 1950s American block party communities. |
1:04.0 | They had a communal policy on using one another's toys. |
1:09.0 | Any kid could use a play structure in someone else's yard at any time without asking. |
1:16.3 | Shortly after I started working in the neighborhood, the rule was revised to any time |
1:21.5 | except for when a family is using a babysitter to watch their kids. |
1:26.8 | This was to ensure that they wouldn't get overwhelmed |
1:29.4 | supervising a swarm of kids they weren't being paid to watch. It was more or less known among |
1:35.6 | everyone that when parents were going out and leaving someone else in charge of their children, |
1:40.5 | this was how things were to go. Even with the rule revision in place, I was still |
1:46.9 | welcome to take the girls to play in any other yard as they wanted. The other parents in the |
1:52.9 | neighborhood even permitted me to let the kids play in their yards or sandboxes independently |
1:57.9 | if I needed a short break. But being an avid babysitters club reader, I never left the girls outside unsupervised, ever. |
2:08.2 | I would take them outside and wait until someone wanted water or a bathroom break |
2:13.5 | and then corral everyone inside together. |
2:17.3 | Similarly, when the girls wanted to play in the tree house |
2:20.3 | at an older couple's house, a few doors up the street, |
2:24.3 | I would climb up and crouch inside that little house with them. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -20 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cryptic County, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Cryptic County and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.