They grudgingly agreed, and after a suspiciously long time my friend thought to check on them. They were being crazy, so to calm them down a little I asked them to go into the boy’s room, close the door, and clean up a little because it was so messy and I knew his mom would be uber proud if he cleaned his room. So the boy had a friend staying the night. She just knows how to handle things - and, despite the fact that she’s very much on our side when it comes to LGBT issues, she knows the kid’s mother well and abides by her rules, even though some of them go against her own personal beliefs. Right, so, cut to a couple of nights ago, I’m babysitting him with my friend who babysits him a lot more often than I do, so she knows the ins-and-outs of every single rule, every behavioral problem, every routine, etc. So allow me to preface by saying that dealing with this woman is pretty much the feminist nightmare, for these and a variety of other reasons. She has the book and DVDs of 'Bringing Up Boys' in her house - yes, by James Dobson, the man from Focus on the Family who believes that homosexuality is a disorder that can be cured, and whose idea of raising a boy is staunchly encouraging him to do nothing but Manly Man Things.
His mother is a very conservative, born-again Christian who is not cool with gay folks. I’ve been babysitting this one little boy, who’s now 7, for about two years.
