What is another word for babysitting?

Pronunciation: [bˈe͡ɪbɪsˌɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

Babysitting is a term often used to describe the act of looking after someone's children, usually in their absence. However, there are other synonyms that can be used to describe this activity. These include child-minding, day-care, nanny service, and child-caring. Other similar phrases can include "watching the kids," "caring for minors," or simply "childcare." Each of these phrases has a slightly different connotation, and different families may use different terms. Whether you are a parent looking for someone to look after your kids or someone looking to offer childcare services, these synonyms are useful to know.

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Usage examples for Babysitting

The convention has a babysitting room so parents can attend panels and the like without disrupting them.
"An Encounter in Atlanta"
Ed Howdershelt
And with only three users, it was probably the kind of system that had lots of babysitting.
"Underground"
Suelette Dreyfus

Famous quotes with Babysitting

  • I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.
    Monique Coleman
  • Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
    Jane Fonda
  • It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
    Kevin Kelly
  • My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.
    Jerry Only
  • She had complained for years about living with his mother and Ronnie and about his dead-end job babysitting these pathetic dysfunctionals, boosting his own ego at their expense, caring more about them than he did about his own wife and children, but what it boiled down to in his baffled mind was something she once shouted, her green eyes bright as broken glass in her reddened face: Too small. As if being a greaseball lawyer's input organiser and easy lay was bigger. But the size of a life is how you feel about it.
    John Updike

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