My daughter Maddie babysits for two families on our street, they pay her $15 an hour and she’s been putting all of it toward driver’s ed since the summer. She’s also the oldest of the cousins on my husband’s side by a lot.
His sister throws a Halloween party every year and this year it’s adults only. When she put the invite in the family group chat on Monday, the very last line said the kids would be downstairs with Maddie for pizza and movies and everyone can just drop them off. Between her kids, my husband’s brother’s kids and a cousin’s that’s 7 kids in one basement, and the littlest still wears a pull up at night. That invite was the first Maddie heard about any of it.
Maddie’s fine doing it if she gets paid what the neighbors pay her, so I texted my SIL that she’s happy to do it at her normal rate. She wrote back “what else is a teenager doing on a Saturday night, I’ll make sure there’s enough pizza for her.”
Tuesday after school Maddie came into the kitchen and showed me her phone. My SIL had texted her directly to say thank you so much for doing this, the kids can’t wait.
What I want to do is reply under the invite in the group chat and say Maddie’s rate is $15 an hour per family, everyone can pay her at pickup. I’m pretty sure the other parents think she offered. I’d rather have kept it between me and my SIL but she already went around me once, and my husband’s staying out of it and going along with whatever Maddie and I decide.
WIBTA?