Yeah I read this wrong too, I didn't realise it was money for OP's dad. Get him to cut you in, 75%, take it or leave it.

Why should he get ANY of it if it is the OP who is doing the babysitting? Babysitting that the OP didn't want to do in the first place, and will probably be very miserable while doing it if s/he actually sucks up with what the dad did?

I cannot tell if you meant the drug or the pop, it still works for both though. :D

This was mentioned before, witthh!!! her name :/

Kids really are not that bad. But, I don't think I would say mini adult. Maybe, mini Jim Carey.

The correct comparison would be something more like mini retarded adults. Also, there are some evil, scheming kids out there. I've had to work with some on a side project for my job, and I would never go into it full time. Must be something in the water in that part of town!

I've done a lot of babysitting in my time and I can say this: Kids can be MONSTERS, especially if their parents spoil the hell out of them, stuff them full of sugar, and keep them on medications for ADD (when they should really just be cutting back on the sugar.) I've had little snots rip my hair out, rip my clothing, kick and punch me, and scream at the top of their lungs when one little thing did not go their way. They called me rude things that they obviously learned from either their parents or the TV that their parents use to keep them quiet, and threw their dinner against the wall - which I then had to clean up. I've also had kids who just wanted a juice box and a coloring box and they were over the moon. Some loved listening to stories I was writing, and others just wanted me to give them some attention and play dragons and knights with them. Sweetest little things. I can totally understand someone not wanting to take the gamble of getting a child from group A, especially since (in my experience) group A is FAR more common than group B.

@131:There have been studies done and just simply saying that kids have taken sugar will change the way you see their behaviour, even if the person that told you that was LYING. If the comparison is really children that had no sugar at all and other children that had no sugar at all and you just say that one group had sugar, people will see the one that was said to have sugar as far more hyperactive, proving it is more that people want to believe it makes them hyperactive than them being actually hyperactive. And no, a 'sugar high' will not last long enough to make them act like little demons either, the body would rapidly lower the blood sugar levels by producing more insulin as too much in the blood can be lethal hence why diabetics must manage what they eat very carefully. Therefore it is even more astonishing how monsterous those children were to you. A few of those I will believe are genetically little devils that the parents can't control either but most of them? Probably bad parents raising bad kids because they were either raised by bad parents themselves or are grown up little devils that their parents couldn't control.

I have had plenty of times where I see what the hell is in the pantry, and shook my head. It wasn't about them "telling me" what they ate, if they were on sugar, it was me SEEING IT FOR MYSELF. So, no, it wasn't someone telling me that they were on sugar and I assumed they were "hyperactive." It was me seeing what the house's kitchen contained, all the fast food and candy/junk food wrappers in the trash, and the child's behavior. I wasn't told by anyone, I knew it because of what I saw. I babysat these children for weeks, dealing with their bad behavior because the parents would pay more. The first few times I gave them the benefit of the doubt that it was just that night was special, or they just hadn't gone grocery shopping yet, but when you babysit a child four nights out of the week and every night the same crap is in the pantry and refrigerator, it says something about the diet the child is eating. If you think that diet does not have an effect on behavior, you are very naive and ill informed. Obviously, it was also coupled with parents who don't want to put forth any effort into parenting, so they use the TV to raise their child. However, it has been shown that certain diets can have a huge impact on a person's behaviors and moods.

To much sugar in a child's diet, especially during infancy, prevents the brain from properly developing. The growth of the frontal lobe is stunted drastically reducing such a young child's already low natural ability to concentrate. So, in effect, removing the sugar from a child's diet would give him/her a much better chance at becoming a well behaved individual earlier in life. I use sugar as the main example but this can be applied to any bad feeding habits some patents exhibit (fast food and whatnot)