The Babysitter's Survival Guide: Fun Games, Cool Crafts, and How to Be the Best Babysitter in Town

by Jill D. Chasse, Jessica Secheret (Illustrator)

This handbook is the ultimate babysitter’s helper, a go-to guide with smart advice on everything from finding clients and snagging the job to entertaining, feeding, bathing, and lulling children to sleep. There are kid-friendly recipes to tempt the picky eater, cool activities for all age ranges, suggestions for handling tears, tantrums, and emergencies, and enough practical information to make even new sitters feel confident about their skills. With its chapter tabs, make your own business cards, handy pockets, and perforated emergency information cards, this beautiful package is a must-have for all babysitters.

160 pages, Spiral-bound

First published August 3, 2010

About the author

Jill Diana Chasse is a pregnancy counselor and maternal/perinatal wellness consultant. She has been working with the mother-baby dyad in birth and psychology for over 20 years.
She is the founder of "Baby-Empowered Birthing Education" (BEBE) and the founder/director of Magic of Motherhood Publishing Services.

Jill Chasse was certified in 1996 for counseling and hypnosis for childbirth by the International Association for Counselors and Therapists (IACT) and has since been working with families to prepare for birth and parenthood. She has received training and a certificate as a Birth Assistant, trained as a birth doula with CAPPA, and is currently studying midwifery with IHM and working as an intern midwife between birth psychology and health administration.

She is a member of Childbirth & Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA), the American Psychological Association (APA), Maryland Friends of Midwives (MFM) and Chesapeake Midwifery Guild (CMG). She is the founder/moderator of the Perinatal Psychology group an outreach project of BEPE-East, with professional members and leaders in the field from all over the world. Dr. Chasse has conducted lectures, led discussions, published numerous articles, and written several books, including Baby Magic which has sold in 8 countries.

Jill focuses on the mother-baby relationship before birth, working with the parents to stimulate brain development and bonding. She also teaches classes and workshops in childbirth education, early parenting, grief and bereavement, perinatal mood issues, and relationship counseling. She has done research and had clinical time in maternal
mental wellness and currently works with mothers for emotional support during the
perinatal period.

Reviews

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Babysitter's Survival Guide is a great book for tweens who are ready to start babysitting. I gave this book to my ten year old daughter to "review". She and 2 of her friends had a great time reading through this book. They each prepared a babysitting bag filled with some of the items this book suggested to entertain the children they will babysit. They made up a cute flyer to hand out to neighbors with young children to advertise that they were available to babysit. I ended up with a ton of peanut butter playdough on my kitchen counter after the experimented with making and playing with it. My daughter is thrilled that the book is now hers to keep.

[Mummy Cat Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book to be very helpful in planning a babysitting activity for 11 year-olds. From all the ideas, we put together babysitting bags for each and we talked about how to babysit. This book made it so much easier for me.
For older girls, it speaks about starting a business and how to do that. It also gives great pointers on getting a job. These tips are good for anyone in the job market.
The book is very well organized and fun.