Beware of 'baby-sitters'

Beware of 'baby-sitters'

From Media Indonesia

About two months ago, after reading an advertisement in a Jakarta-based paper about well-trained baby-sitters placed by ASI Foundation in Utan Kayu, East Jakarta, I decided to contact the agency and hire one for my child.

I was disappointed because the baby-sitter could not do anything that a baby-sitter should be able to do. She was nothing more than a housemaid in a baby-sitter's uniform. More often than not, rather than putting on her uniform, she dressed inappropriately. She was very awkward, even when doing household chores, and broke many things.

When she spoke to me or my husband, she had no manners at all. Worse, she either spent hours watching television or gossiping with neighborhood housemaids.

YANI Bekasi, West Java