What do i do about this spoiled brat I'm babysitting?

Question

Okay so I am 16 and I'm babysitting a 5-year old girl who is very spoiled. She never does anything I say, she just ignores me. She crys and screams when i make her do something or if she doesnt get what she wants. She jumps on the furniture even when i tell her not to, which my parents get really upset about. She lies (like for an example if i tell her to wash her hands after playing outside she will lie and say she already did). She talks back to me, she acts like shes my equal. And then when I finally get fed up and yell at her she goes and tells her mom. And then her mom gets mad at me. This one time she started screaming and rolling around on the floor i told her she was being a bad girl. And then she went and told her mom that I said that and her mom got mad and told me not call her that. She said we dont use the word "bad" we use "misbehaving". Its like I cant displine this child without her going to her mother and having her come back to my house to defend her. And im scared to talk back to her mom about it because she use to babysit me when i was little. So i feel like i still have to listen to her. It just sooo fustrating. She gets away with everything! I dnt kno what to do about this girl. She never listens!

Answer 1

don't babysit her any more

Answer 2

Tell the parents to find a new babysitter and quit.  They're dysfunctional.  No wonder they have to pay someone to look after their kid as they are probably unable to do it themselves!

Answer 3

Honestly, if you are just in it for the money I would tell the kid what to do, and if they don't listen then just let it be. If her mother comes home and fuses just explain to her that you asked the child to do something and she said no. What else can you do? If you disipline her, you get yelled at. I just wouldn't give a c**p if I was you. Do what you can to get the money, and right before you leave the job, sit down and tell that mom what a little **** her kid really is.

Answer 4

put her in the corner on her knees for 5 minutes (one minute per year). if she leans on the wall or sits back on her feet, gets up etc her time starts over. it is just taking the time out a little bit further. we had to use it with my cousin when her mom went to iraq (she was her mama's only baby and did and got what ever she wanted).  

Answer 5

love her until her parents return then tell the parents you are unable to babysit anymore.

Answer 6

Whatever she is paying you - it's not enough.

This is the mother of that child's fault.  Find a family to sit for who has well behaved children.

Answer 7

There is nothing you can do but quit. I once babysat two little jerks and I would put them in time out where they could hear everything that was going on but not see it and then I ignored them crying. Eventually they shut up and if they realize they will not get attention for these things, they will stop doing them. If the mom won't let you put her in time out then I say quit. Once she realizes that she has no one to watch her brat she will be sorry. Also tell her you can no longer babysit her child because she makes it impossible to implement reasonable discipline which causes her child to feel like she is the grown up, and that she doesn't have any reason to behave.

Answer 8

I'm sure your mom or dad paid her to baby-sit you so you owe her nothing and you are not a baby any more so tell her you can't do this any more. If she is leaving this child with you in your own home, you should be able to make her behave the way she needs to. If the mother says we don't say that at our house say well this ain't your house, something to that effect any way

Answer 9

Wow that's pretty bad for a 5yr old, my daughter is 5 and I gotta admit she's pretty spoilt ( I do say no occassionally) but she's very polite and  well mannered. I hate to say it but I would stop babysitting this child if she is so out of hand especially since the mother is taking her word for it over yours (I assume you've tried telling the mother exactly what her daughter is doing). I wouldn't bother with this girl anymore if the mother isn't going to do something to help or suggest something at least to control this child. Don't babysit her anymore and find another babysitting job.

Answer 10

Tell her your the boss and that she cant always have what she wants. And if she tells her mom you said something mean, say shes lying.

or just tell her mom you have other plans or that your sick and can't make it

Answer 11

Stop babysitting her.