Babysitting Research Paper

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There are many factors that need to be considered when a parent is determining whether their child is ready to take on the responsibility of babysitting another child. The factors that need to be considered for a child to babysit should be the home environment/setting, maturity of child, ages of children, length of time babysitting, and number of children being babysat. An appropriate age for a child to begin babysitting is 15-16 years old. At this age the child is in high school and is exposed to more responsibilities, and higher maturity levels.
All of these factors listed above are significant in determining if your child is ready to babysit. The conditions of home environment/ setting are a big one because knowing your surrounding is very important. For example if the child is babysitting in an urban area where crime rates are high, they need to able
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Also with the conditions of the home they need to know how to work the stove/oven in order avoid house fires. Just because the child is 15-16 years old doesn’t mean that they are unnecessary ready to babysit. When dealing with early vs late mature adolescent you have to consider that they might not be ready to take on that responsibility of caring for another person ;although they are 15-16 years old , they may be a late mature, which pushing them back even further in growth. When these teens are babysitting I don’t believe that they should babysit anyone younger 6 and should be no more than 2 children that are being babysat at once. I believe that this is one of the most important factors because people don’t realize how much can happen at those younger ages. One year olds and on their most common deaths are accidents like: car accidents, riding bicycles, firearms, fires, poison, suffocation, choking, and other safety hazards. This is why I said that they should be able to