The Reno bar crawl scene is continuing to grow as the Biggest Little City is now home to a crawl just about once a month.
There are a variety of child-care options available for a parent who chooses to enjoy one of these nights out on the town.
There is a program called REMSA Kid Care that is preparing teenagers for jobs as babysitters.
Bridgette Cenac, a REMSA public education instructor, says the class has taught more than 1,000 students the essentials of babysitting including pediatric first aid, CPR and other child care techniques.
“How to hold a baby, how to change a diaper, how to change their outfits and teach them how to put them to sleep," says Cenac.
Many folks turn to their family members for child care or even people who they've made friendships with at previous crawls.
Ed Adkins, the owner of Crawl Reno, says he too has had to deal with finding someone to watch his child on the night of a crawl.
“We maintain relationships with people where we trade off, so you know, they'll watch our kids on the night of the crawl and then we'll watch their kids some other time," says Adkins.
Adkins himself was a babysitter at a young age, so he understands the importance of learning that kind of responsibility.
"Learning how to take care of somebody younger than you, who needs more than you, things like that, I think that's really valuable," says Adkins.
Adkins says the largest demographic of people who attend the crawls are people between the ages of 25 and 40.
He says many of these individuals have reached out to him to offer tips to parents as the next crawl approaches.
“Drop your kids off at a sitter that you trust, so that you don't have to pick them up until maybe like lunch the next day,” says Adkins.
The next crawl is the pajama crawl and that will take place April 30th in downtown Reno.
