Your babysitter just arrived and you have seven minutes before you must head out to catch your show/make it to your meeting/watch your buddy walk down the aisle. You try to remember everything they might need to know for the next several hours of caring for your offspring, but you’re blanking, and your little one keeps tugging on your shirt, asking for soup. You tell your sitter “Just text me!” but you really don’t want to get a flurry of non-urgent messages in the middle of your Very Important Thing.
Let Alexa help.
There’s a simple Babysitter Blueprint that allows your child’s caregiver to ask for information such as where to find extra diapers in your house, what TV programs are not allowed, and the name and number of your emergency contact (in case you can’t be reached). You just have to fill out a form, customizing what you’d like Alexa to say when asked certain questions.
For instance, here’s the template for daily schedules.
To begin, your babysitter must say the name you give the skill (ie. “Alexa, open My Babysitter” or “Alexa, open Babysitter Guide”). Alexa will then give a customized message, like, “Hello, and thanks for all your help today! This is your custom guide to caring for Will, Cyan and Reese! If you have any questions, just ask.”
It’s the modern information sheet that you’d tape to your fridge. And if your kid begs for a second serving of ice cream, your sitter can definitively say, “I’m sorry, but Alexa said no.”