Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tove.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!tove!mark From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: hotel stays with a baby Message-ID: <123@tove.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 08:52:37 EST Article-I.D.: tove.123 Posted: Fri Feb 8 08:52:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 01:51:24 EST References: <377@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 28 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. -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland Phone: +1-301-454-7817 CSNet: mark@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!mark USPS: Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742