Tuesday, May 08, 2007

From the mouths of babes

Prompted by my 5 year old: "Mummy, why is the baby-sitter called a baby-sitter, when we are actually children?"

Thought Wikipedia might just have the answer to that one, but sadly not. It does have other interesting facts though including the term Baby-Sit first appeared in 1937. Makes you wonder what they called it before 1937.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi 21st Century Mummy !!
Love the blog and love all the stories and photos from around Bury....the spider story went down very well in our house !
Want to know how come you get red dog poo bins ? Or should I say red bins for dog poo..?
Baba x

Her indoors said...

Hi Baba - glad you love the blog. To get red dog poo bins I think you need to be nice to your councillors or live somewhere where dog mess has not been previously cleaned up by their owners. x