We hired this college girl aged 20 or 21 to babysit (with alleged years of prior babysitting experience) our kids (aged 3 and 5) for two days a week this summer. She came home for spring break so I asked if she wanted to babysit for a couple days to meet the kids before summer starts. We agreed and she came. The second day she was here, our 3 year old (who is potty training) had a poop accident that was rather severe. I’m not sure how it played out because I wasn’t here but I know it was a bit of a mess to clean up and it was on my child’s clothes and the floor etc… and required putting my child in the tub to get cleaned up. my assumption is she wasn’t really paying attention as well as she could have been. I know she doesn’t know my kids and this was only her second day with them and It sometimes takes keen awareness to avoid incidents like these when they’re potty training. That said, I got a text message from her a few days later saying how “uncomfortable” this incident was for her and “the severity of it wasn’t something she could deal with again.”She wanted to know if my child would be fully potty trained before summer because otherwise she wouldn’t feel comfortable babysitting for us. I told her she shouldn’t think about having kids in the future if she’s that uncomfortable over a poop accident. Of course, I was a bit mad and could have reacted better but come on? I can’t tell you how many parents have had to put their child in the tub to get cleaned up after an incident like that. It’s pretty common! We agreed it wasn’t going to be a good fit. But what is going on? The quality of babysitting care has really been poor with all the younger people we hire. They don’t clean up after themselves and they apparently can’t handle anything.