Date nite child care, how much would you pay?

[aprincessmom]

I have to be honest...I wouldn't use someone who wasn't in my own home. It's too much of a hassle at that time of day and night. We tried a babysitting co-op thing in our neighborhood and that was the primary reason it failed. Moving the kids around after they fell asleep, finding comfortable and quiet places for them to sleep while others were running around playing, waking them up to go home...it ended up being more trouble than it was worth.

I do use sitters for DD and I pay between $7-12/hour in my own home for one child.