Today's Dear Annie reader asks Annie Lane if it's wise to post online when your children will be home alone with a sitter.
While a single mom is posting on social media that she needs babysitting nights, one of her relatives worries she's also announcing when she won't be home. I consider myself to be a self-aware social media poster. However, there is a family member on Facebook who posts her childcare needs at least once a week. She posts the day and time she needs and has said the names of the children who need a sitter. She has three children.
Her circumstance is difficult as she is going through a divorce. I am not particularly close with her, but not in a bad way. I, too, have been a single mother and know how difficult it can be to find cheap, reliable childcare. There is part of me that wants to message her to tell her how unsafe it is to continually post when her children will be alone with a sitter, but I guess this is her business. Annie, should I bring up my concerns with her? -- Worried for the KidsShe is a family member, and you are both single mothers. Yes, by all means bring up your concerns with her.
Maybe even offer to help take care of her kids when she is in a pinch so that she is not so desperate to post it on social media. Perhaps you could offer her some of the ways you found a sitter without announcing it to everyone on social media.
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