Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Baby sitters

[Berrins (Berrins]

In a message dated 10/15/2000 5:18:30 PM, lilbert [at] earthlink.net writes:

<< > One last question....do you recommend the group picking up the tab for 
the
> babysitter at the general business meetings?  We have ten households but 
only
> two families so far and are hoping for many more.  How many groups felt that
> picking up that tab increased the families?
>
> Thanks always for your answers,
>
> Shelly DeMeo
> Greater Hartford Cohousing >>

Not exactly.  We pass the hat for donations for all those who don't have kids 
with the sitter(s), subtracted that from the total we need to pay the 
sitters, and then split the difference among those who do have kids with the 
sitters.

We added a twist recently.  Those who have kids that usually need watching 
are on the kid-watching list.  If you aren't coming to a meeting you have to 
let the person in charge of the sitter know in advance.  This gives us a good 
idea of how many sitters we'll need for that meeting.  

    Roger Berman
    Pathways
    Northampton, MA