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Originally Posted by DementedReality
fair points ... but your last point  it may be easy, but i am pretty discerning on who i trust my kids with. teenagers dont qualify and neither do smokers by the way. |
I don't use age as a determining factor. If you are using a non-relative I find that references from people I know and trust as well as gut feeling evaluation from talking with the person are more effective then essentially eliminatiing 80% of the pool of short notice babysitters based on age.