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Part-time sitter sought for two weird, hilarious, smart, and polite kids
Waterloo, Ontario
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Sitter Job in Waterloo, Ontario

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You: love dinosaurs, rockets, math, playing pretend, painting, spontaneous living room dance parties, building LEGO, baking cookies, and reading stories. You have Mary Poppins-level patience for terrible knock-knock jokes, explaining the mysteries of the universe, and issuing gentle (but firm) reminders to hang up coats and put away boots until the kids do it themselves instead of giving up and cleaning up after them. We: are a young(ish) family, kids ages 11 and 6. They're usually polite and super fun. Usually. We have one mellow goldendoodle, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (Hopper for short). Our home is filled with books, art, more LEGO than any two children need, enough Netflix to maintain our sanity, and about as much chaos as you would expect from a family with two school-age kids. Our parenting philosophy is to support our kids while letting them make mistakes themselves, because that's the only way to learn how to become a functioning adult. Our life philosophy is to avoid the use of phrases like "parenting philosophy" as much as possible. We're looking for a weekly date night (typically on the weekend, but the day can vary as needed - we don't want to monopolize every single Saturday night) and occasional weekday afternoon coverage. (1-2 afternoons/week beginning at 3:00, with moderate scheduling flexibility on our end.) The kids' school is walking distance from home, easily accessible from University of Waterloo. "Light meal prep" means preparing snacks/dinner for kids when you're taking care of them. "Light housekeeping" means supervising the kids as they clean their rooms and cleaning up after activities you do together, and maybe unloading the dishwasher occasionally. For medical reasons, ABSOLUTELY NO TOBACCO/CIGARETTE SMOKERS. This one is non-negotiable. We really don't care about that joint at a party last weekend as long as you're sober and exercising good judgment around our kids, but we can't have a cigarette smoker in our home.
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Required experience

Ages include:
Early school
Primary school
Provider can look after:
Number of children: 2

Required qualifications

CPR
First Aid

Services needed

Responsibilities will include:
Babysitter
Housekeeping
Meal prep
Pickup & dropoff

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