babysitting

Example Sentences

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Happily, you appear to be helping them with babysitting duties while your son-in-law plays the piano on an upper floor.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

A parent who refuses to share basic caregiving responsibilities places an unfair and unrealistic burden on the other partner — and on you, if you are spending time babysitting while he is upstairs.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

“And so it does have to go from like, ‘Oh, you’re the manny’ to waking up to each other as something other than this transactional thing with you babysitting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

"It was a real group of us. I was just lucky enough to get the nice job of babysitting!"

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

I’ve only been babysitting Boo her whole life, not to mention an entire week by myself.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko