Babysitters, What Parents' Dark Secrets Did You Uncover?

babysitters of reddit what seemingly normal parents had dark secrets somewhat wholesome story i used to babysit for the kids down the street when i was in high school one night i went into the parents bedroom to get something i think a puzzle and there was a book on the nightstand called how to comfort your kids when you're thinking of divorce or something like that but the next time i was over there was a book downstairs on the mom's desk that was the couple's therapist's guide to saving a failing relationship it made me sad because the parents seemed really happy together whenever i saw them i felt bad that they must have been going through a hard time behind the scenes my parents had a pretty unhappy marriage so i tried to be extra nice to the kids i hope they hadn't had to listen to their parents fighting anyway this went on for a few months with no further indications of trouble i felt like i knew this awful secret that the kids didn't know one night i came over to babysit the mom was in grad school and she had a class and the same books were sitting on the counter as the mom was leaving she was like oh i can't forget the textbooks and grabbed them off the counter i actually didn't know what she was studying so i asked what class she had turns out she was studying to be a couples and family therapist the books i saw were her school books in retrospect that made complete sense because the titles were kind of academic but i immediately assumed they were divorcing about a decade later they are still married and the wife is a very successful couples and family therapist go figure thanks for this story my daddy hits my mommy sometimes for that one i was still in high school i told my mom what she said and my mom went to the police station to report it i like it when you're here not the other lady she's mean and she makes me sit in the closet this little girl was referring to her dad's girlfriend i told the dad about it and never saw the girlfriend around again and for some comic relief my older brother and i play swords in the bathroom daddy taught us how asked him to show me with his action figures what he meant expecting the worst and he says look and goes in his dad's closet and pulls out these giant foam swords hugh thankfully not all in the same house coma my older brother and i play swords in the bathroom daddy taught us how although como asked him to show me with his action figures what he meant expecting the worst and he says look and goes in his dad's closet and pulls out these giant foam swords give this dad the best dad award i was babysitting for a local family who owned car dealerships i answered the phone hello as wonders and it was the father who didn't know his wife had hired a babysitter so she could go to an appointment he started in with the stupidest sexy voice until he realized it wasn't wife he hung up later he was caught cheating not gonna lie his loyalty had us in the first half i never really babysat for anyone besides family but i did dog sit for a woman and her husband for a while she gave me a tour of the house the first time i went over there and there was a room in the back of the house that was filled with dildos and other sex toys she sold them as a side hustle and wanted me to know they were there in case i was uncomfortable they paid me well and left a great review on the site i was using i wish they never moved lol i love their dogs that's nice that they had the forethought to show you the weird stuff they have so that you wouldn't feel uncomfortable if you found it by yourself i named for this very rich family with three kids from the west coast who would come to south florida for summer vacation every year the mother was in her 30s clearly had her kids when she was young and was very stereotypically hot blonde thin big boobs perfect teeth her husband was a little older salt and pepper sue wooper handsome very george clooney-esque their kids were all blonde head blue-eyed cute as frick they absolutely adored their parents dad would help the kids and mom settle in at the house and then fly back to cali for work i babysat three five times a week 6 30 p.m to 2 a.m mum would get all doled up leave her wedding ring on the kitchen counter and come home very late clearly drunk and sometimes brought men home with her that she introduced as her friends she would often overpay me which i never complained about but i worried for that for that i babysat a lot when i was 13 15. at the time i lived in a small town i was a very popular babysitter as i also worked at the daycare center often i would have kids from two or three different families at once i didn't care i got triple the pay for having three different groups of kids i was recently told why i always had groups of kids like that turns out the small town had a swingers club and i was the go to babysitter for their different groups sounds like my ex until she decided to join in hen sex one family i still don't know what was up with them it's like they were squatting in a model home or something it was a fully furnished house that looked to be straight out of better homes and gardens magazine but there was nothing in the drawers fridge or cabinets no toiletries in the bathroom except for toilet paper no food or silverware in the kitchen no clothes in the closets or in the kids drawers and no toys the lady just told me to order food for the kids and they watched tv it was weird it could have been a second home or well not very good parents i used to babysit for my next-door neighbor who had an eight-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy i was 13 when i started babysitting for them and i knew off the bat the kids were an interesting duo to say the least and i have too many stories to tell from when i was watching them we all went to school together so when we got off the bus we'd walk to their apartment and i'd watch them made sure we got homework done and make them the snack of the day one day we had a half day at school and i think the mom forgot because when we walked into the apartment i heard one of the doors shut at the time we thought it was an intruder so i grabbed the five years baseball bat told them to stay in the room and i do some investigating i opened the bathroom door and there was the mum half naked with a guy that wasn't her husband she gave me all the money in her wallet and her business card she was a photographer and told me to never speak of it again i caught her cheating and made out with 400 and a 650 photo shoot package took pictures for all the upcoming holidays so i could keep giving gifts to my family i babysat them for about three months after before they moved away snack of the day sounds fun i was babysitting once and the kids were wrestling in the living room all of a sudden the smell of dank filled the room i hear the kids stop and say what is that one of them had knocked over a big tin can on a shelf and the parent's weed stash spilled everywhere i sent the kids away and cleaned it all up for them and put it back i babysat for the local policeman when i was teenager he always came home very drunk and in a weird mood and one time brought out a homemade ouija board and persuaded me to take part with his buddies always paid me really well local policemen are there any more or is it a very small town if it's a very small town with only one policeman who uses homemade algae boards that seems like the perfect setup to a horror movie a family member of mine was a babysitter in the 70s a couple who lived nearby asked her to babysit their baby a few times i didn't get the sense that she knew them well every time she'd go they said the baby was sleeping and not to disturb the baby by checking on it the baby never cried the parents would come home and relieve her she never saw or heard a baby at the time i don't think my family member thought much of it but has told me this story several times because it keeps nagging at her how could a baby be asleep for the entire time she was there every time no noises nothing today she thinks there must not have been a baby but has no idea why they'd hire her i used to babysit when i was around 13 14 ish my neighbors and three kids ages four seven and eleven the house was really nice always clean and tidy one time they asked me to babysit for a couple hours okay no big deal they paid me six dollars an hour when i got there they made the kids shake my hand and say thank you for babysitting us i thought it was weird but it was whatever the parents left and the kids wanted those dinosaur chicken nuggets so i made them some as they were eating the seven-year-old asked for a toy she said it was in her parents dresser i didn't want to snoop around but if she wanted the toy i get it for her i went into the parents room and found the dresser i opened the first one and all i see are stacks of cash okay weird but not my business i went back out to ask the girl what dresser drawer it was in she goes over and literally points at the second drawer and said oh don't open that one it has bags of sugar in it that's what i hear mommy say i was like oh okay then she grabs her toy from the fourth drawer and runs off i did take a peek in the drawer and sure enough under the socks were bags of sea i was shocked but i didn't say anything i put everything back where it was and left the room when the parents got back i took the cash and left never baby sat there again tldr babysat some kids and found c in the parents drawer i babba sit three five times a week you'd be surprised at how many sex toys i see a lot of them are just out in the open like they forgot to hide them i overnighted once and the guest bed had bonded straps parents totally forgot about that that's not too surprising but some of their kinks are probably the darkest was this five-year-old girl i babysit she was the victim of sexual assault for a couple years by an aunt and uncle no charges pressed or anything mum and dad just cut all contact with that side of the family i live in a small town so i see the aunt pretty often it's sickening they understandably have a ton of cameras set up in their house now and aren't gone for more than a couple hours the child has a very weird bedtime routine which is how i found out not so much as dark but really sad i babysat for a typical upper middle class family dad worked mom was stay at home the mother was always a little overprotective like checking on their daughter the second they got home but i didn't think much of it one night they came home and we talked a little she mentioned how much she loved children and her daughter so i asked her if they ever thought about having another she completely broke down and explained that she had multiple miscarriages before and after her daughter so they stopped trying i felt really awful and really sad because it seems like she wanted another baby i have found that so many women tell me about their kids or working on having kids aha that even if it's a natural conversation point to ask about having kids i won't if the risk that the answer would be hard for them is too high if they want to talk about future kids feel tell me without being asked i was babysitting for my neighbors and they were super nice people two kids very pottery barn people they would always come home late with no cash to pay me but they'd come by my house literally the next day with the cash so i never minded but i was always a little confused as to how they spent all their cash at dinner and a movie and somehow didn't plan to pay the sitter and how they managed to stay out till 3 a.m just doing dinner and a movie and they were pretty wealthy so it wasn't like or once before they left when they were in the other room saying goodbye to the kids i went to move the wife's person saw a really big roll of singles i brushed it off but then another time their daughter had an allergic reaction and i texted them or sos but when i got a call back i picked up and heard club music it was a couple sittings after that when i left through the back door and saw the husband at the garage shaking glitter off their clothes that i realized they were probably going to a strip club when i went to college they switched to using my sister as a sitter and i sat down with her and explained where they went and not to ask or act suspicious they were good parents and it's not like a problem it was just super not the vibe they gave off and i kind of found it hilarious the internet has broken me when you mentioned going to college i expected the next line to be something about dancing for them at the club i'm not sure of this counts but this is my secret between myself and my nephew my sister was 23 stroke 24 and she was going through her divorce she and her three-year-old son came to live with us i was in high school at the time and devoted all of my after-school time to him he and i were close we were so close i would be on the couch with him in my lap at 3am watching in the night garden for the billionth time still in my school uniform but now smelling of regurgitated milk and doing math homework with my left arm meanwhile my sister would be out partying and whatnot one day it was just my nephew and i at the time he was i think around four i was in my school uniform getting ready to leave for school he was helping me get ready by putting his favorite toys in my bag as i was heading out i told him that i loved him like usual and he replied i love you too mummy i was stunned but i was already running late so i brushed it off and went to school after that when we were alone my nephew started calling me mummy he was genuine i asked him what about mummy and he tells me how she doesn't really love me you love me and nanny loves me i tried to encourage him to call me auntie again and he did when others were around but when we were alone he looked at me with his sweet little eyes and called me mummy he eventually says i wish you were my real mummy tantrums become more common for him he throws them when his mum is around and begins to avoid her hugs her hugs were only there to pose for selfies and to show off what a good parent she is he would start crying and screaming and get sent to his room for misbehaving my mum nanny and my sister would go out and leave me in charge i would then go to my nephew and give him a big old bear hug i'm not the parent and he isn't my child but our secret was mutual i wished he were my child and he wished i was his mum we had to keep our wishes secret because if my sister knew that i was ruining her image by taking all of the mother-son love then heck would have broken loose she was all about self-image to the point she became a compulsive liar and she also has some other mental problems his teachers noticed how bond when he entered primary school and his after-school babysitters knew about his other mum my nephew is 10 now i don't know if he remembers any of this but the other day was my birthday and for the very first time he tried to earn money through chores to buy me a gift himself it was a squirtle amy ibo tl dr my baby nephew and i developed a secret mother-son bond that only teachers and babysitters picked up on and it had to be secret because his real mum is crazy the world would be a lot better if we had more people like you around i used a nanny for a family at the interview they seemed totally normal even the first day wasn't too terrible i quickly realized that both parents were abusive mom had severe anger issues and was medicated for some condition related to it dad was a borderline sexual predator who constantly talked about how gross looking his wife was and how if she didn't stop being a bee he divorced her their kids were just as bad one of them was also medicated for behavioral issues i found out later that the reason they were hiring a nanny a posted day care was because their kids had been kicked out of the daycares in the area nope the frick out of that situation within a few months when i was 13 14ish i used to babysit two kids while their parents went to amway functions one night for whatever reason i looked behind the couch and saw a bunch of magazines i collected them thinking they'd been dropped behind there by accident by the kids i babysat it was a huge stash of penthouse and playboy magazines and i had to quickly ray hide them before the kids saw them i was curious naturally but i told the mom when she drove me home i don't recall if she said anything or not but i stopped babysitting her kids shortly after that because i moved away seemingly a happy family but the child had a lot of odd behaviors the most obvious one was she cry few laughed in front of her her mom told me the four-year-old child would assume you were laughing at her one time i grouped babysat at a neighbor's house with this child and when the father came to pick the child up the neighbor's dog went ballistic and tried to bite him shortly after it came out that the dad was abusing the daughter always trust the dog i nanned for a wealthy couple she was a surgeon he was an architect and the husband had a study in the house that the wife joked about never being allowed in now i'm a nosy sucker and i was curious about why you wouldn't let someone in a study s since it looked like a fairly normal room big desk walls covered in bookshelves books of architecture everywhere so one day i just roamed around in there i didn't really find anything and i was kinda disappointed but then i grabbed a book off one of the shelves the thing had money pressed between its pages about five hundred dollars if i had to guess picked up another book found the same thing i think i checked like 10 different books and every single one had money hidden in it still not sure if the dude was just paranoid about banks or if he was intentionally hiding money from his wife i was babysitting at my neighbor's house they were a young couple early thirties with two kids age five and eight i was 16 at the time and the first questions they asked me was if i had a boyfriend and if i was a virgin because they didn't want me seeing boys while babysitting i think part of the reason why they asked this is because they were pretty wild themselves and probably did crazy stuff when they were younger and babysitting when they found out i smoked they always left some cigarettes for me they always told me that they'd be home around 12 or 1 but most of the times i would fall asleep and they would stumble home completely drunk around three in the night they'd give me way too much money as an excuse which i obviously didn't mind after a while the dad started messaging me online first just asking innocent questions but after a while they became more sexual in nature i told him i didn't feel comfortable with that so he stopped they broke up a while later and the mom started throwing wild parties at their home i randomly walked by with a friend of mine once and she invited us and then gave us a beer me and my friend felt pretty cool here we were at a grown-up party having beers until the mom came up to us to offer us some sea we were shocked and declined and left the party quickly after that i told my parents a couple of years later about all this after the mom and kids moved and they were outraged apparently they always acted like they were very respectable can't believe you said no to free see though i worked at a daycare center to be clear these parents did not seem very normal mom had fake inflated kardashian-sized boobs and busts and was generally very conceited like almost a stereotype of a person with a body that augmented she stood out among the other parents who picked up their kids from the daycare after working 12-hour shifts scrubbing floors and doing other blue collar labor large immigrant community dad was more down to earth so it seemed younger brother age seven told me he was anxious one day he tended to be a worry wart so i wasn't surprised but i asked him why he says that his dad yells at his mom a lot because she gets drunk goes out and parties with her friends and then he has to go and pick her up which leads to a lot of arguing i told him that that's really sad and that we would say a prayer for them it was a christian dayar a week or so later he excitedly told me that the prayer worked and his parents weren't arguing anymore while mac does say that all things are possible through god so jot that down i was only tentatively optimistic about yb's revelation older brother eight was a completely different personality a bully to the kids and adults never had a positive thing to say the things he seemed to like were his younger brother fortnite and roblox like you do the most of the school year we had butted heads trying to get him to do homework but towards the end of the year his behavior changed he would say he was too stupid to do homework and would try to hold his breath to try and commit suicide in his own words this seems like a huge red flag and he eventually broke down and said that his dad was abusive towards him and that his mom says she doesn't like being around him while he was prone to lying he was crying something he never did and his behavior was like nothing me and my co-workers had never seen that was my first time calling cps and when the next school year started those kids didn't come back hopefully the kids are okay i wasn't a babysitter but my childhood best friend had a very odd family they would all get naked and hang out around the house which was adorned with fetishes and carved statues from aruba in jamaica work in an elementary school a lot of horrifying unexpected stuff tends to come up i handle any behavioral calls so tend to have a lot of contact with kids who are having trouble self-regulating in school sometimes these kids genuinely have a hard time but often they can't regulate because they're in hyper drive with what's going on at home i had a mom tell me in detail the sex life between her and her ex another parent was arrested for drug trafficking and went to jail for three years a week after he'd attended parent teacher conferences another parent got into a fight in the lobby and 9-1-1 had to be called i looked after the neighbor's kid when i was young they seemed normal enough when they moved in kids parents were always away at work but her grandmother lived with them and worked from home so she was always there the longer they lived there the clearer it became that i was the only one looking after this kid they weren't feeding her or paying any sort of attention to her and grandma didn't work from home so much as play computer solitaire all day their dogs pee and crap all over the carpets and they just left it they let the dogs wander outside unattended and eventually one got hit by a bus my mom took her to the vet and she recovered they let her wander again now mostly blind and crippled eventually she wandered off and didn't come back they never looked for her eventually they moved they tried to take the appliances with them ripped the stove cupboards toilets dishwasher etc out of the walls and tried to drag them out to their truck realtor caught them and there was a big fat about it these things were there when they moved in it's been more than a decade and i still worry about that kid i babysat for this one family only a couple of times when i was 16 but on the first night they just casually talked about how i needed to call the police if the kids bio dad turned up at the house i was then told i would need to barricade us all in their master bathroom and i should call them and their lawyer custody battles suck i was a nanny for a young boy with additional needs let's call the parents john and lisa john worked for lisa's parents as they owned a painting company this company had the family surname as its name one day i noticed john was home from work early in the painting van but it had his surname as the company name on the van not lisa's parent surname i thought it was a funny coincidence that he and lisa had the same surname and so i pointed this out he froze up and looked a little awkward and said oh that's because lisa and i are first cousins they shared the same paternal grandparent and therefore the same surname they had been together since they were young teenagers i'm not actually sure if this is legal or not but it's certainly frowned up here depend on your state country in some it's legal and others know not a deep dark secret but as someone with 15 plus year in child care it's pretty common for a lot of wealthy parents to prioritize their jobs and themselves over their kids kids can sense this and usually develop some sort of unhealthy way to get more attention the response is usually to throw money at the problem instead of genuinely getting the kid help or re-examining their family structure it's always so deeply sad to me a few families i have worked for i genuinely wondered why they had kids i understand parents need a break and people have to work but man it was so sad i babysat for a family with three wonderful kids i genuinely did not like to babysit but these kids were different they were fun and nice and generally well behaved we had a standing babysitting night every saturday on a couple occasions i would call the night before if i was sick or couldn't come for whatever reason when i called the mom answered and said she understood she sounded loopy i didn't really know for sure what drunk sounded like but that's what i thought was happening the next night she would call to see why i was late and if i was still coming she told her kids and husband that i flaked that she confirmed my suspicions that she was blackout drunk after a couple times of this happening they stopped asking me to balance babysit i didn't want to confront her about it i missed her kids a lot and every time i passed by the house multiple times a day it hoped that the kids were well i found out later that the parents were a lot worse than i knew drinking partying leaving the kids alone a lot when i told my mom years later about the phone calls she wasn't remotely surprised i was giving the four-year-old a bath and he asked me why don't you touch me like dad does that was my first red flag eventually the dad would show up at home unannounced to just hang out with me when the kids were napping i was 18. one day he got a vasectomy and told me if i wanted he could send a couple blank shots at me a few days later he full-on assaulted me i locked myself in the bedroom and called his wife she wouldn't believe me i called my brother and he rushed over with a baseball bat one family i babysat for was super big in the art world super successful had multiple homes mansions fancy cars but the kids were weird specifically the older girl who was about eight showed me a jar of baby mice that she had cut out of a pregnant mouse's stomach suspended in formaldehyde sitting on the windowsill in the kitchen something about that just did not sit right and that was the last time i babysat for them i was alive in nani for a local pediatrician's family stayed with them for around six months the dad moved overseas before his family to make sure everything was settled when they came so basically i was the second parent in the home while he was gone during that time i grew incredibly close to the mum in a love-hate way she opened up about how she had has an emotional affair with a mutual friend of hers and her husband she would show me the conversation countless you're all i wanted type of messages i remember her asking about how she can do this while loving her husband she replied i don't love him in hindsight i was going through my own relationship drama so it seemed like a toxic bonding moment my rose-colored glasses fell off when she admitted she flew across the country to go to her resort with him all while telling her husband she was on a work trip for reference she had two toddler twins and a boy entering junior high pretty certain her oldest kid knew what was going on i am a dude and have had dogs for a large portion of my life i live somewhere pretty close to a small park with a playground and i used to walk and play with my dog there frequently so i would meet this woman who had an adorable daughter quite often both she and her daughter liked my dog so it would often end up with my dog and her daughter playing for a bit while me and the mother were talking about stuff i am quite laid back and chill so after talking for some time she asked if i would like to care for her daughter sometime if she was gonna be busy as she trusted me as i liked her daughter i didn't mind we ended up just playing mario kart and chilling on the sofa while i told her stories until she had to go to bed the mother came home pretty drunk on a few occasions and we ended up sleeping together a few times what she hadn't told me about was that she had a husband that was working offshore the kind of work where he would be gone four weeks at a time with no cell reception something i kind of found out when i passed her house while walking my dog seeing a man working in the garage in the garden several days in a row i asked the woman the next time i met her if she had met someone new as i saw some guy at her home her face changed immediately and she poured it quietly all out to me she was miserable with her husband cause he was an alcoholic and was rarely at home cause of work where he always worked overtime she had fallen for me and thought that i was one of the sweetest men she had ever met and she would rather be with me than with him so her nice house expensive car and all sorts of gadgets were paid by her husband while i as a lowly middle range wage man was boning his wife and bonding with his daughter while he was gone i felt so bad about it so i told her that we should stay as friends but that i would keep her secret if she promised to care as well as she could for her daughter and if crap hits the fan i would look after her daughter it's been over one year now and we still occasionally talk but i still feel pretty bad about it all i just hope the daughter doesn't know if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 31min 7sec (1867 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 17 2021