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Would you hire them? Why are they not common?

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anewme

BDI wrote: »

Women are into that stuff. Men might pretend to have an interest in other people’s children but I’ve been on a building site for decades. Very few women around. Nobody cares what your baby looks like. Nobody wants to know if your child won his football match, if your son is working age he can come in and drill holes but that’s about it.

Anybody asking me could they come home with me and babysit or hang out with my kids because they love kids would be met with suspicion.

Women bring their new babies to work during maternity leave and all have cake. They like that stuff. Men don’t.

You’ve probably mentioned in every post that you work in a building site.

It’s Stephenzz day.

Can you not stop posting sexist triipe for one day.?

BDI

bubblypop wrote: »

I'm a woman, I don't care about anyone else's children. Couldn't care less what your baby looks like.
I work with mostly men, believe me, they talk about their kids all the time. Bores me, pretending to care.
Maybe the lads on the sites with you are afraid to talk about their kids, maybe they're afraid you will call them paedophiles?

Not at all. You are just one of the few women that don’t look at new babies like they are there to be sniffed.

Socially you probably don’t excel. It has nothing to do with male babysitters.

[Deleted User]

BDI wrote: »

Not at all. You are just one of the few women that don’t look at new babies like they are there to be sniffed.

Socially you probably don’t excel. It has nothing to do with male babysitters.

What exactly are you talking about? Socially I don't excel? Lol.
So what about the hundreds of men I work with then? Who talk about their kids? Do they not excel socially either?

[Deleted User]

You do realise that your attitude says more about your attitude towards children then other men?

BDI

bubblypop wrote: »

What exactly are you talking about? Socially I don't excel? Lol.
So what about the hundreds of men I work with then? Who talk about their kids? Do they not excel socially either?

They are probably pretending to like kids because they think that’s what you will find attractive. It’s standard behaviour.

Millionaire only not

Personally wouldn’t let a male babysitter in !
Why take the chance and regret it for rest of your life
Same as we can’t go to a full bar without keeping our distance from person in front no touching anymore - omg the world is so ****ed upbut that’s life
Keep and stay out of harms way !

[Deleted User]

BDI wrote: »

They are probably pretending to like kids because they think that’s what you will find attractive. It’s standard behaviour.

I can assure you the men I work with, who talk to each other about their kids, couldn't care less what I think.

[Deleted User]

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Anyone under the age of 18 can't work after 10pm unless working for a close relative. Anyone under the age of 16 can't work after 8pm.

This is unofficial cash in hand babysitting, none of the above matters a damn. Can’t believe these “rules” are getting quoted like they are actually heeded.

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Personally wouldn’t let a male babysitter in !
Why take the chance and regret it for rest of your life
Same as we can’t go to a full bar without keeping our distance from person in front no touching anymore - omg the world is so ****ed upbut that’s life
Keep and stay out of harms way !

Ha ha what sort of sh1t is that about keeping your distance in a full bar, I’ve never seen such nonsense. I’ll be in the back pockets and packed as tight as can be at any bar, couldn’t give a fiddlers. Never head anyone ever say anything like you have before.

However what’s even worse is your disgusting sexist opinion on a male baby sitter, should be looked on like racism imo. Assuming men are pedos is pathetic absolutely pathetic.

eviltwin

BDI wrote: »

Women are into that stuff. Men might pretend to have an interest in other people’s children but I’ve been on a building site for decades. Very few women around. Nobody cares what your baby looks like. Nobody wants to know if your child won his football match, if your son is working age he can come in and drill holes but that’s about it.

Anybody asking me could they come home with me and babysit or hang out with my kids because they love kids would be met with suspicion.

Women bring their new babies to work during maternity leave and all have cake. They like that stuff. Men don’t.

There's method in the madness. If some people at work have a new baby I don't care but if fawning over it means I get to have an extended break so be it. And it's nice to be nice, it means a lot to them and they made the effort so it's good manners to acknowledge that.

BDI

bubblypop wrote: »

I can assure you the men I work with, who talk to each other about their kids, couldn't care less what I think.

Why do you think that is?

Mam of 4

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Millionaires only not post ...

This thread is an eye opener .

I never knew only men were predators and not to be left alone with children , jesus wept .

[Deleted User]

BDI wrote: »

Why do you think that is?

Are you actually for real?
Because we are workmates, because they are happily married with kids, because we have a professional relationship.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say

[Deleted User]

Millionaire only not wrote: »

Personally wouldn’t let a male babysitter in !
Why take the chance and regret it for rest of your life !

What chance?

BDI

What about Garda vetted priests? Are they ok?

spurious

BDI wrote: »

What about Garda vetted priests? Are they ok?

You appear to have an unhealthy interest in paedophilia. Is it close to home?

[Deleted User]

If we're talking about teens, I don't see the problem. I did babysitting as a teenager for my neighbours, and it wasn't with babies. It was kids aged between 7-14. It was decent money at that time (mid 80s).

I wouldn't see it as a career for an adult male, simply because of the stigma now associated with males (undeserved), and the legal ramifications if anything goes wrong. The world has moved on quite a bit with insurance claims or suing for all sorts of nonsense.

As for males working with Kids, I was a kindergarten teacher for a year. Hectic work. I wouldn't be particularly fond of kids, but I do know other males who do have a decent career teaching kinders. Each to their own. Thankfully, people are capable of being different from the majority and still be of sound mind.

BDI

spurious wrote: »

You appear to have an unhealthy interest in paedophilia. Is it close to home?

Unhealthy interest in paedophilia because of one thread? I’d say that says more about you than me.

Are you saying anybody that has a problem with this must be damaged goods and that’s their fault?

[Deleted User]

BDI wrote: »

Unhealthy interest in paedophilia because of one thread? I’d say that says more about you than me.

Are you saying anybody that has a problem with this must be damaged goods and that’s their fault?

I would suggest that anyone who automatically believes men to be predators is damaged.

Mam of 4

BDI wrote: »

Unhealthy interest in paedophilia because of one thread? I’d say that says more about you than me.

Are you saying anybody that has a problem with this must be damaged goods and that’s their fault?

So if a father stayed in to mind his own children , he's really like the babysitter ., so thinking about it he shouldn't be trusted either as he's male , going by this thread .

I'm done .

BDI

bubblypop wrote: »

I would suggest that anyone who automatically believes men to be predators is damaged.

I don’t.

I am a man.

I know that if I chose a job in childcare I would be choosing a life of minimum wage, with little to no career prospects and a lot of people would question why I wanted to work with children being a man.

Now I either have such an urge to play chasing and clean up after children and listen to their high pitched shouting that I weigh up the options and don’t care about the negatives or I should have my motives questioned.

Maybe I’m some social awkward person that doesn’t care about this and wants to strike out at social stereotypes and the way of the world but if I was in the big chair at the job interview a man would not be hired.

BDI

Mam of 4 wrote: »

So if a father stayed in to mind his own children , he's really like the babysitter ., so thinking about it he shouldn't be trusted either as he's male , going by this thread .

I'm done .

Never said that. A man Choosing to mind other people children as a career is not a social norm though.

LuasSimon

Used be a male 18-19 year old baby sitting round our way one time , one couple that used get him , the wife would drop him home when they got back from night out . Apparently the wife used get her piece of the babysitter on this trip home . Everyone happy as the hubby was in a coma from booze back at the ranch .

anewme

BDI wrote: »

Never said that. A man Choosing to mind other people children as a career is not a social norm though.

No, they should all work on a building site, or they have failed in life.

bellylint

our childminder is male, I have np with it. Other people do, that's their business.

BDI

anewme wrote: »

No, they should all work on a building site, or they have failed in life.

You seem to have a problem with the fact I work on a building site.

People said I must have been molested for having a view on the question asked but you raise issue about me working on a building site.

What if I was molested. I’d probably feel terrible. But as long as it helps people win an equal rights arguement on the internet. Who cares.

[Deleted User]

BDI wrote: »

I don’t.

I am a man.

I know that if I chose a job in childcare I would be choosing a life of minimum wage, with little to no career prospects and a lot of people would question why I wanted to work with children being a man.

Now I either have such an urge to play chasing and clean up after children and listen to their high pitched shouting that I weigh up the options and don’t care about the negatives or I should have my motives questioned.

Maybe I’m some social awkward person that doesn’t care about this and wants to strike out at social stereotypes and the way of the world but if I was in the big chair at the job interview a man would not be hired.

So you believe all men are predators that should not be left in the company of children?

BDI

bubblypop wrote: »

So you believe all men are predators that should not be left in the company of children?

Nope

kowloon

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Get my 16 yr male cousin to mind our fella when we go out. He doesn't mind it, he gets a takeaway and 50 quid out of it.

If he's ever too busy PM me. Lamb Madras, Peshwari naan.

[Deleted User]

BDI wrote: »

Nope

Glad to hear it, so no problem with male babysitters then

touts

Women are all for breaking the glass ceiling and gender equality for traditional male roles. But ask them if they think a male childcare worker should be hired in their child's creche and they become as bigotted as a bunch of old men in suits in a smoke filled boardroom in the 1950s.