Daily News | I’ll watch your kid, you watch mine: Mt. Airy Babysitting Co-op nears 50
When Eleanore Pabarue had her daughter, Kate, christened at Christ Church and St. Michael’s Episcopal in Germantown 37 years ago, the minister delivered a kind of parental commandment:
It’s seen as an extension of what residents have come to label “the village” — a city neighborhood of kindred spirits who celebrate diversity and the idea of community-building. The area, a home to many artists, professionals, individualists , and the civic-minded, has been nationally lauded for residents’ organizing efforts to“There’s no concern about prejudice or judgment here,” Pabarue said. “My husband and I are an interracial couple, and we never had problems.
Dues are just $10 a year. The co-op runs on a fairly complex points system that tracks and balances the number of times parents babysit and request a babysitter themselves. so they can be “seen in action,” Mooney said, “to see if it’s a good fit.” Then the membership votes. “It’s pretty intimate to go to someone’s house and take care of their kids,” she said. “I’m a little nervous about it. My mother and father never had outside sitters.
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