The World According to Dave: The Babysitter
by David Yoo
By the time our son Griffin turned 18 months old, we still had never used a babysitter, and I had serious cabin fever. Despite feeling it, too, my wife was leery about leaving our son in the hands of anyone not related to us by blood. She reasoned that her parents visited us all the time, but I argued that their visits didn’t qualify technically as “babysitting,” given that my wife refused to ask them to just sit in our house so we could venture out at night. To her that would feel like we were exploiting them, even though that’s the whole point of having grandparents in the first place—to exploit them! Alas, before I knew it, a year-and-a-half had passed, and we were chomping at the bit to leave the house past sundown for once.
My wife’s trepidation to let a stranger watch Griffin was topped by my desperation to get out of the house, just the two of us, and I finally convinced her to let me find a babysitter. The next afternoon I took Griffin for a stroll around the neighborhood and introduced myself to a really tall teenage girl sitting on her front stoop, reading a book. It turned out the girl, Rachel, was an experienced babysitter and seemed perfect—an old soul who loved math and science and was even in the Girl Scouts! Continue Reading »
Posted: February 1st, 2010
Filed Under: BLOG , Back Issues , FEATURED ARTICLE , February 2010
I’m the type of person who always makes New Year’s resolutions. But this year’s different, because my wife and I are expecting our first child, which means life as I’ve known it will officially be ending, forever. So in addition to already viewing the new year as a clean slate, I now have to contend with the prospect of having to adjust to a completely new life and mindset once the baby arrives. Which, pitifully, I didn’t realize until the moment I woke up in a sweaty panic on the first of January.
Every year, my resolutions look basically the same. The list is comprised of writing goals and career goals, along with a handful of trivial yet deeply important long-term goals that I’ve harbored for decades. Since I was a little kid, I’ve aimed to accomplish various things, and each year I half-heartedly add these projects to the resolution list, hoping this’ll be the year I finally pursue these dreams. But of course nothing ever changes, because I know I have time and therefore feel no sense of urgency to take action. Continue Reading »
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