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[meorae]

Babysitting Sarah wasn't that bad. She was extremely adorable and Jack, one of their cats, spent a lot of time sitting on my stomach. He'd jump up onto me and like only a second later, he'd be completely settled on my stomach and not move for 5 minutes before jumping off. It was amusing.

So Tomilson picked me up at around 5 and then left for parent teacher conferences. Sarah wanted to do her reading homework, so we spent 10 minutes with me holding the book open and her reading it. Then the pizza guy came and so I paid for pizza and then went back to Sarah as she wanted to finish her homework.

As soon as we got to the part about mama whatever (I think it was a bear, but I don't remember... something with a warm coat) bringing the cake in and birthday cake being better than birthday soup, sarah started crying as she missed her mom. So I'm fine with comforting Georgia or Owen, cause I know what to say to make each of them feel better and I know how to distract them. However, I was completely lost with Sarah crying. I didn't know what activities she'd want to do or if I should tell her that her mom would be back in a few hours, as that used to make Owen cry more. I ended up asking if she wanted to eat dinner and she nodded her head.

Around half an hour later after we had eaten and I had read her a children's book about Walden pond and Henry David Thoureou, she stopped crying and everything was fine after that. Anyone who babysits, just a question, how do you comfort/calm down a child you're babysitting for who misses their mom or dad?

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She's six and I'll probably never see her again, so the whole liking thing didn't really matter. But I still felt like I should do something and that this wasn't the random crying of a two year old where just sitting there is normally the best thing to do.