Babysitting

Babysitting is temporarily caring for a child. Babysitting can be a paid job for all ages; however, Babysitting is best known as a temporary activity for early teenagers who are not yet eligible for employment in the general economy. Babysitting provides autonomy from parental control and dispensable income, as well as an introduction to the techniques of childcare. Babysitting

emerged as a social role for teenagers in the 1920s, and became especially important in suburban America in the 1950s and 1960s, when there was an abundance of small children. Babysitting stimulated an outpouring of folk culture in the form of urban legends, pulp novels, and horror films.