Sittercity Helps Give Frazzled Parents the Gift of Time This Holiday Season

CHICAGO, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Sittercity.com, America's largest and most trusted online source for caregivers, is offering a quick, easy and unique gift-giving solution for that stressed and strained parent in your life -- the perfect sitter! By logging on to http://www.sittercity.com/gift_certificate_1.html, thoughtful friends and family can purchase gift certificates for Sittercity memberships for busy moms and dads looking to get reacquainted with their social lives in 2008. With Sittercity Gift Certificates, parents will get access to a database of hundreds of thousands of sitters nationwide.

Sittercity Gift Certificates provide these parents with the one thing they could always use -- free time and peace of mind. Not only will recipients be happy with the thoughtfulness and usefulness of this gift, but gift-givers will also be happy to have finally found a truly unique holiday present.

By visiting http://www.sittercity.com/gift_certificate_1.html, friends and family can purchase Sittercity Gift Certificates -- in various membership timeframes, including six months and a year -- with a few swift clicks of the mouse. Gift-givers may immediately email the gift certificate to the recipient, or they may print it for in-person delivery. Also, since all Sittercity members have access to all care types (not just babysitting!), recipients will get the ultimate value in caregiving.

For more information on the Sittercity Gift Certificate program, visit http://www.sittercity.com/gift_certificate_1.html.

About Sittercity.com

Sittercity.com(R), the inventor of online caregiving, is the Web's leading parent-sitter matchmaking site for child care and pet care, dedicated to making the process of finding a caregiver fast, easy, safe and fun. With access to hundreds of thousands of sitters nationwide, parents of children or pets can find a wealth of qualified caregivers in their area by using Sittercity's four-step screening process, which includes references, parent-to-parent feedback, personal interviews and free access to background checks. Registration for sitters is free, and parents pay as little as $8 per month for a membership, which gives them unlimited ability to post jobs, and search, contact and hire sitters in their areas. A true pioneer in its field, Sittercity.com has been featured by hundreds of media outlets, from the Today Show to the Wall Street Journal. It received a Webby Worthy Award in 2005, won the Women's Business Development Center Rising Star Award in 2005 and won the U.S. Small Business Administration Champion Award in 2006 from President Bush. For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.sittercity.com.