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From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: hotel stays with a baby
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Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 08:52:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 08:52:37 1985
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In article <377@lsuc.UUCP> simone@lsuc.UUCP (Simone Sherman) writes:
>...also whether hotel stays in a resort area (where we'd normally
>want to lie on the beach all day) get difficult with a little
>one in tow. 

Well, not difficult, but your 10 month old won't be lying in the Sun
so much as crawling all over the sand.  Unlikely you will ever be able
to close your eyes--no telling what in the sand will be so interesting
it requires the ultimate tactile exploration, in the mouth.

>What about baby-sitting? (When we were in New York
>in September, we inquired about baby-sitting at the hotel where
>we were staying, and it was unbelievably expensive.)

I have to think that the cost is the least of the problems with
transient baby-sitting.  The potential for abuse and mistreatment is
the other.  If I had a prediliction to child abuse I'd try to get
myself a job someplace where I knew the parents were too busy to care
and I was likely to get myself a compliant child hungry for love--like
a big hotel or resort chain.  I'd also like one where the families were
soon gone and so there would be no long term pattern anyone could pin
on me, like at a hotel.  The hotels say they check references of their
babysitters but as the recent rash of newspaper articles have shown,
that is not enough.
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