Friday's Babysitter is Just Clicks Away
UrbanSitter brings its social network for parents and babysitters to DC.
UrbanSitter's network for "finding babysitters through friends" has arrived in DC just two years after four parents founded the start up company in San Francisco. The online resource allows parents to log-in through a Facebook account, create a profile and search for local sitters by experience, availability and even by whether someone at your yoga study or moms group has hired the sitter previously. Perhaps even more convenient, you can pay your sitter via credit card through the Urban Sitter app for a small processing fee. You can also continue to pay in cash if that's your preference. Daisy Downs, a co-founder and head of marketing at Urban Sitter, said after her daughter was born she looked at the calendar one day and realized it had …
