Sitter + tutor, no upcharge

Babysitter & Tutor in Brooklyn

Most babysitters babysit. Ours tutor too, and it's built into the price — not a separate booking, not a premium add-on, not something we mention awkwardly at the end. Becky and Shelly have both spent years tutoring Brooklyn kids in reading, writing, math, and — for Shelly — Hebrew. When your kid has a homework pile, a test coming up, a reading level they're trying to pull up, or a book report that's been sitting on the kitchen table for a week, we sit right next to them and do the actual work. We don't put them in front of a worksheet and scroll our phones. We read the question out loud, we check the answer, we catch the wrong ones before they go in the backpack, we explain the step they missed, and we sign the homework log honestly — if something didn't click, we leave you a note so you can follow up. For elementary and middle-school reading, writing, and math, both sitters are fully comfortable. For Hebrew reading, writing, and comprehension — day-school and Hebrew-school work — Shelly handles it fluently; book her directly. When the work is done, the session moves to free play, dinner, bath, and bedtime like any other booking. Most families find that a 2-to-3 hour window covers tutoring plus the evening routine comfortably. For big projects — state tests, science fair, ELA essays, Chumash parshas — we recommend booking 3-to-4 hours so the kid isn't rushed through the work. For higher-level subjects like high-school calculus or SAT prep, we're honest about the limit — we're not the right fit and we'll tell you before you book. The rate is the same as any babysitting session ($25/hr for one child, +$3/hr per additional). We don't charge a tutoring premium because, honestly, it's what a good sitter already does with a focused kid.