{"id":585,"date":"2017-05-13T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/?p=585"},"modified":"2017-06-09T23:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:16:50","slug":"mile-square-park-with-babysitter-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/2017\/05\/13\/mile-square-park-with-babysitter-sarah\/","title":{"rendered":"Mile Square Park with Caregiver Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 9:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of the RESPITE benefit from RCOC, we asked the GSG Service company to find a babysitter to help babysit William on Saturday for 4 hours. \u00a0We&#8217;re allowed to have 8 hours a month for RESPITE. \u00a0According to our service coordinator Kim Than, RCOC accounting department has not determined our share of cost yet so we&#8217;re not responsible for that. \u00a0Also, I want to apply for MediCal thru the Waiver Program so that&#8217;s why I need to use RESPITE at least once.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah, a very young lady came to our house. \u00a0We asked if she&#8217;s ok to go to the Mile Square park; and she said ok. \u00a0So we took William and our bike, she drove her car and followed us.<\/p>\n<p>At the park we let Sarah watched William played in the playground, Tim rode his bike around the park; and I walked around near the playground; partly I wanted to watch how Sarah took care of William. \u00a0She&#8217;s very nice but she just either stand or sit down to watch William playing; I hope that she could be more involved to play with William instead of just standing there watching. \u00a0 I felt that William was so lonely running around while the other children have their parents instruct them to do this or that.<\/p>\n<p>10:30 AM we left the park and returned home. \u00a0Sarah is starting to play with William, asking what he wants to do. \u00a0I let them play together while I prepared lunch for William. \u00a0Once lunch was ready, I gave William his ipad and asked him to come to the dining table as usual. \u00a0Sarah stayed in the living room and checked her phone. \u00a0I wish that she could come over and sit with us and talk; or she could offer to help feed William. \u00a0I waited for 20 minutes but she was still sitting there; no sign at all that she&#8217;d want to join us on the dining table.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s new; she just started with GSG company since Jan so that&#8217;s means only 4 months; which means she doesn&#8217;t have much experience. \u00a0I would not want to waste her time by letting her sitting there doing nothing while I fed William so I told her If she wants she can go. So she left after asking me to sigh her time sheet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to have someone watching William for a few hours so that I can do things that I need to do but I hope I can find someone that I can trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 9:00 AM. Taking advantage of the RESPITE benefit from RCOC, we asked the GSG Service company to find a babysitter to help babysit William on Saturday for 4 hours. \u00a0We&#8217;re allowed to have 8 hours a month for RESPITE. \u00a0According to our service coordinator Kim Than, RCOC accounting department has not determined our share <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/2017\/05\/13\/mile-square-park-with-babysitter-sarah\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/william.mtplace.net\/wpMain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}