I was a single teenage mom and took care of my daughter all the time when not working (hardly ever had a babysitter - my parents had the "you made your bed, now lay in it" attitude about my teenage pregnancy). I still had a social life but my daughter was in tow always. It felt strange when she wasn't there and my girlfriends would immediately ask who had her etc if I didn't have my daughter with me. But that's because I almost always DID have her with me.
My best friend at that time also had a child but she NEVER had him with her...her parents had him allllll the time (they were of the mindset that she was still a kid herself and needed to be allowed to live that way). People did the opposite with her - "oh your parents aren't around?" etc when her son was with us.
Soooo....say Casey usually didn't have her, it might not be odd to people...but if she actually DID show up with her, people then asked whats up? It also seems like since she was hanging with a new dude/his friends/his hangouts...there wouldn't have been a pattern established yet where Caylee was always underfoot. Though there kinda was but not for long.
(just as a side note for amusement sake, my daughter is now pre-med and the former BFFs son dropped out of HS...my parents did me a HUGE favor by never babysitting)
You and me both, sister. Mine was always with me at night with the exception of a weekend night here or there.
My mother ALWAYS knew who my daughter's babysitter was, she had to pick her up sometimes if I was running late at work-cause I had a real job and that happens with real jobs. I am now of the opinion, since I own my own company and work from home, that if a client doesn't like me bringing my 13 year old with me when I have to, I don't need them as a client.
I have also brought my daughter to work when I was employed by corporations-She attends Catholic school and they get a lot more half days and days off than I did in public school, so my employers were used to seeing my daughter, too, and co-workers knew when I had to make arrangements to work late because I would lament to them that I had to coordinate.
No one knew KC's nanny, not even her parents. That is way odd when you live in the same house as your folks. No one at her Universal "job" ever made any concessions for KC to be home with Caylee or heard of KC making daycare/babysitting arrangements so she could do her event planning....well, that's because she didn't have a job, but did CA not ever ask why KC had a job that required her to put Caylee second ALL THE TIME? My mom would have asked "Don't they know you have a child to care for? Why would they give you a late night schedule? Why don't you find a daytime job and get daycare?"
Well, seems like CA was getting to that point and it was causing KC a bad hair day. So, I think Caylee was with CA all of the time, and according to what Annie said about CA calling everytime they went out, I am sure CA wasn't digging it-Not cause she didn't love Caylee, but because she had raised her kids and wanted KC to raise hers.
Now, once we get into 2008, KC does start to find places to go, like Ricardo's, to avoid CA's beckoning. Her decision to start dating Tony put her in a bind...let Caylee stay with mom and hear mom's mouth, or act like an adult and tell TL that her child comes first (like she did with Rusciano when she wanted to get rid of him), or the no-brainer (? :banghead: ) take Caylee out of the equation entirely.
Making
that choice for a guy you know a month or two takes a certain kind of creep. Not childhood abuse, not youthfulness, not an oopsy...a selfish, oversexed, narcissistic creep.