How To Best Find A Qualified Babysitter

What is the best way to find a qualified babysitter?

The only way to find a qualified babysitter is to have an interview process of your own that includes background information about the child. You want to find out who else they've babysitted for. Mostly, it's a neighborhood thing. There are so many babysitters within a neighborhood filled up with kids that you should be able to get a lot of recommendations. The only real way to go and find out whether a babysitter is qualified, is to do an interview process with them. If you wanted to do a background investigation, you certainly could do that. You could ask them to participate in it, and ask them to be fingerprinted, and get their Social Security number, and get permission to look into their background; but most parents don't do that for babysitters.