Babysitting-----my specialty

My two baby sitting experiences, will never get me another baby sitting job.  Let me say I was an adult during these experiences.
Awhile back  a neighbor hired my 10 year old daughter to babysit for her  2 year old.  Ummm how stupid is that?  So of course I went in to help.  The 2 year old banged her head on a pointy piece of furniture  and  was crying loudly .  So , I thought quickly and  gave her  a video tape in the plastic case , one of those  big VHS  tapes.  So the kid takes it and starts banging it on her  head.  She was  really enjoying  doing that.  She stopped crying  and we all were laughing . Then we noticed that now her head was  bleeding. The mother came home and saw a  bloody kid.  All I could say was  "she was having lots of fun".

Another time, i was  watching  my friend's  5 year old, maybe  4 year old.  Anyway,  the kid was bored and  I had to think of a fun thing to do.  Band Aids... yeah that was the idea.   so  we put  all different  shape and color band aids  all over  her   arms and face and forehead.  It made the kid laugh every time i showed her in the mirror.  It was quite hilarious.  However, when she revealed  her wonderful  Band-Aid makeup to her mom,  Her mom let out a scream.  First I thought it was a good scream, but it was a bad scream..  I got  yelled at "what did you do to my daughter:"... I said ,  "we were just  having fun".
A funny thing is, the memory stuck in my friend's daughter's mind as a memorable event.  About  2 weeks ago , she sent me a picture of her 5 year old child with duct tape all across his mouth eyes and arms. And she said " you taught me well"..... Oh my!

I don't think I was so bad, when I think of a story about  my wife's father watching her.  She was  3 years old and he was holding her  hand walking with her by the public swimming pool.  He  was then engaged in a conversation with some friends.  All of a sudden he noticed all these people diving into the pool,  his daughter  ( my wife)  was  under the water ,  while he was just holding  her hand.  She  almost drowned.   I guess  I'm not the worst babysitter.  :)