Police Crack Down On Babysitters

Here’s the picture, a stay at home mom offers to help out her neighbors by keeping an eye on their kids for the 15-40 minutes between when the parents head to work and the school bus arrives. The kids are all friends, the mom is just trying to be a good neighbor.

Well according to the state of Michigan she’s a lawbreaker, illegally operating a day care. The fact that she seems to do it for free and only for a little while in the morning doesn’t seem to matter. Nor does the fact that all of the parents are fine with it. The state is gonna make sure she goes through thousands of dollars of costs to get licensed.

Luckily it seems the outrage has led to support for a bill to exempt these kinds of situations, but talk about government going overboard.