babysitting

Techniques for beginning babysitters, including how to care for children and what parents look for in a sitter. A registered nurse also discusses first aid, including CPR and the Heimlich maneuver.

Discusses the safety knowledge baby-sitters should possess, presenting scenarios in which young male and female sitters face challenges regarding safety, as well as responsibility and honoring commitments.

"Every year Stoneybrook Middle School (the whole school!) gets invited to Leicester Lodge in Vermont for a week of winter adventure! This trip sure isn't like any other! A busload of little kids unexpectedly needs baby-sitters. Mary Anne uncovers a ghost in the lodge. Claudia and Stacey both fall in love with handsome French skiers. Kristy is helping her team win the Winter War . . . while California Dawn can barely stand up in her skates. And if it doesn't stop snowing, SMS may be snowbound until spring!"--Provided by publosher.

The Baby-sitters and a group of kids they sit are going to summer camp. The Baby-sitters are going to be Counselors-in-Training, and they are ready for it to be like baby-sitting in the woods, but they soon discover it's not all fun and games. Dawn gets lost in the wilderness overnight, Stacey spends the two weeks with poison ivy, and Claudia falls for a boy CIT.

Minnie, Daisy, and Cuckoo-Loca babysit for Mrs. Pig's piggy in this Little Golden Book retelling of an episode from Disney Junior's Minnie's Bow Toons.

Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.

"When single mom Eleanor Mazinski goes out a for a much-needed date night, she leaves her two young children-sweet, innocent six-year-old Ben and precocious, defiant twelve-year-old Mira-in the capable hands of their sitter, Amy. The quiet seventeen-year-old is good at looking after children, despite her anxiety disorder. She also loves movies, especially horror flicks. Amy likes their predictability; it calms the panic that threatens to overwhelm her. The evening starts out normally enough, with games, pizza, and dancing. But as darkness falls, events in this quaint suburban New Jersey house take a terrifying turn-unexpected visitors at the door, mysterious phone calls, and by midnight, little Ben is in the kitchen standing in a pool of blood, with a dead body at his feet"--Provided by publisher.

"Tia is stuck at home babysitting when all she really wants is to go to a party. She settles in for a boring night at home, but tensions rise when a storm picks up and the lights go out. When strange events start to occur, Tia realizes her evening may become much different than what she expected"--Provided by publisher.

Claudia has always been close to her grandmother, Mimi, so she needs the help of her friends in the Baby-sitters Club to deal with Mimi's death.

Eva offers to babysit for little brother Baby Mo so her parents can go sky-dancing competition, and she enlists a couple of her friends to help--unfortunately Mo proves to be a handful, eating too much candy, making a big mess, and throwing a tantrum, and she and her friends have to clean up fast before her parents get home.