Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

One of the most difficult things that I have found with being the parent of young children is that getting out of the house has become a major undertaking.  With an infant who’s crawling and getting into everything, you can’t trust a young teenager to watch them and you two older children.

And getting two babysitters just doesn’t seem to make any sense!

So, what options are you left with?  For us, it’s my parents, but they live a good half hour away.  My church’s teen population is limited to younger teen girls.  Most of the other moms that have children have younger ones as well.

Here are some of the ideas that we have thought of:

• Try to get referrals from people in other churches with older teen girls.
• Take on two teen girls at a time.
• Split up the children to multiple care givers.
• Form a parent co-op where parents (with a teen helper) take turns watching the kids.

Can you think of any others?

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