Babysitting

(1959 July 1)

Last night she [MM, 14] sat from 8:30 - 12:00, her first nocturnal experience [babysitting] and came home very thrilled with another dollar earned. She worked 8 hours Monday and 5 hours Tuesday and is getting rich fast. I am very proud of her attitude. She has solved all her problems alone so far - put Pat to bed when she had a fever, took axe away from Terry when he was going to use it on a pal over baseball dispute, etc.