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When we had no money and young kids a group of about half a dozen families formed a babysitting co-op. Every week one of the families was designated as the place to drop your kids on Saturday afternoon if you wanted to. It worked out great. We knew every six weeks we would have a house full of kids, sometimes for the evening, sometimes overnight. We always had lots of games, activities, etc. for them to do. This was in the 70's before laser disc's, vhs and dvd's, but kids expectations were different and we were just a bunch of hippies who let them run wild anyway. Tempe had lots of parks and we only lived a couple of block off campus which afforded lots of opportunity for exploration too. Over the three years we did not injure or loose one kid!