Content by Levi Mcpherson
It’s summertime and the kids are home for vacation. But someone has to pay the mortgage and sadly, that would be YOU.
Not everyone has the luxury of sending their kids off to day camps. Not everyone can afford a nanny. Some of us are working just to pay the bills.
Some of us are putting the safety of our youngest children in the hands of our oldest children. Some of us are brave!
I’ve really tried to raise my children to work as a team. As a large family, the oldest help out with the youngest. It’s part of the joys (and angsts) of being a big group.
And so while my husband and I are away during the day, making money to pay the mortgage and put food on the table, our oldest is home tending to the flock.
He’s passed all of the babysitting courses with first aid training and CPR. He’s got the skills to apply a band-aid or cold compress. But one of the things that we have had to drill in to him is that when they are going in and out, in and out, in and out the back door to play in the backyard, they MUST lock the door. It seems so simple but this has been our biggest safety challenge.
Installing a home security alarm has been effective in breaking this habit. We also put an adt signin front of our house so that people know we have an alarm. We feel better when we’re away knowing that the alarm WILL go off regardless of whether the door is locked or not.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:17 am
I think that it great when you have Multiple children. With one it is a little difficult. We have an alarm system, which was a must. have allow our child to stay home alone on Occasion. she still phone with the question.. When will you be home? and then I hear strange things in the house, come home soon.
Growing up I had brothers, one older and the rest younger. We would stay home alone on Occasion and have no problems. Times have changed and safety is more important now. The alarm systems have become a great tool, and Money well spent.
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