Baby-sitters

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31866, 19 December 1968, Page 16

Baby-sitters

Sir,—What a' delightful article from Moyra Bigelow with her views on fathers as baby-sitters! I had read the article, “Men Make the Best Baby-sitters” and had thought, “What a lot of eye-wash!” At such a busy time of the year, I guess many of us did not have time to give it much

thought. But on second thoughts I can recall an incident several years ago when I had entrusted my baby daughter to his ever-loving care. She had been placed in his bed (when she should have been tucked up in her cot), and he was so engrossed in his book that he was in a little world of his own. Some time later he became aware of a lip-smacking noise and found baby had lifted the lid off the Kariol and had smeared it all over the pillows, bed clothes, and herself, and on his own pyjama coat. No, they are not to be trusted; they are totally irresponsible and I think a lot of it is just plain cunning on their part. In their own minds they are thinking, “This isn’t going to happen to me too often.”—Yours, etc., M.Mc. December 18, 1968.