If you WOFH, how many years did you keep your nanny for?

[Anonymous]

If you live in the suburbs (where kids need to be driven to activities until the late teen years), how old was your youngest when you stopped needing a nanny?

[Anonymous]

We still have our nanny for our 13 and 15 year olds! She’s more of a house manager now but my kids love sports and there was no other way to get them to after school practices and piano lessons without a trusted nanny. Plus she still handles all the kids laundry, errands, lunch and snack groceries and packs lunches.

[Anonymous]

My SIL still has her nanny who is now 100% house manager. Her youngest kid is off to grad school this fall.

[Anonymous]

You can keep her as long as you want. I have three kids and a demanding job but never had one. Totally your call.

[Anonymous]

Our nanny doesn’t drive. dh and I wfh. I think we’ll have a nanny until youngest starts K and is in school most of the day. After that if driving is too much for us to juggle we will consider an au pair for the reduced hours/mostly afternoon schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We still have our nanny for our 13 and 15 year olds! She’s more of a house manager now but my kids love sports and there was no other way to get them to after school practices and piano lessons without a trusted nanny. Plus she still handles all the kids laundry, errands, lunch and snack groceries and packs lunches.

+1. Same with 11 and 9 year old. I don’t know how other parents handle after school sports/activities as well as sick days without keeping their nanny. My kids would miss out on so much.

[Anonymous]

My brother and his husband still have their nanny and my nieces are 17 and 15. It’s the driving and home management really. Plus the girls are really close to their nanny.

[Anonymous]

Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

Our nanny’s kids are all grown. But what’s your point? A woman can work when she has children but a nanny can’t? What about teachers whose kids are taught by other teachers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

Our nanny’s husband takes her boys to practices and extracurriculars because our nanny is a WOHM. Just like me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

Our nanny’s kids are all grown. But what’s your point? A woman can work when she has children but a nanny can’t? What about teachers whose kids are taught by other teachers?

Extra curricular activities are called that because they occur outside of the school day, but before bed time. If the nanny is taking your kids to practices during that time, she isn’t taking her own. If you are consistently working later than 5:00 and you can’t take your kids to their extra curricular activities, you are saying your children’s needs outweighs your nanny’s kids needs. Or that your children need more extra curricular activities than the nannies. Of course they do in your mind, but overall in society it is an interesting point of view. Hopefully you pay your nanny enough that she can do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

Our nanny’s husband takes her boys to practices and extracurriculars because our nanny is a WOHM. Just like me.

Just like you? Than why doesn’t your husband do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

Our nanny’s kids are all grown. But what’s your point? A woman can work when she has children but a nanny can’t? What about teachers whose kids are taught by other teachers?

Extra curricular activities are called that because they occur outside of the school day, but before bed time. If the nanny is taking your kids to practices during that time, she isn’t taking her own. If you are consistently working later than 5:00 and you can’t take your kids to their extra curricular activities, you are saying your children’s needs outweighs your nanny’s kids needs. Or that your children need more extra curricular activities than the nannies. Of course they do in your mind, but overall in society it is an interesting point of view. Hopefully you pay your nanny enough that she can do that.

The point you’re missing is that a nanny is a WOHM like the rest of us. NP here and your insinuation is obscene! I’m a doctor who has to care for other people’s children when my own kids are home sick sometimes. That’s life. Our nanny is older and doesn’t have kids but if she did I would respect her enough to work it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

Our nanny’s kids are all grown. But what’s your point? A woman can work when she has children but a nanny can’t? What about teachers whose kids are taught by other teachers?

Extra curricular activities are called that because they occur outside of the school day, but before bed time. If the nanny is taking your kids to practices during that time, she isn’t taking her own. If you are consistently working later than 5:00 and you can’t take your kids to their extra curricular activities, you are saying your children’s needs outweighs your nanny’s kids needs. Or that your children need more extra curricular activities than the nannies. Of course they do in your mind, but overall in society it is an interesting point of view. Hopefully you pay your nanny enough that she can do that.

That’s ridiculous, PP! Who is serving the waitress’s kids dinner while she is serving your family at a restaurant? Who is putting the ER doc’s sick kids to bed while she’s treating your kid’s cut? I could go on and on.

You’re trying desperately to make some class distinction when none exists. The nanny, as another poster pointed out, is a WOHM just like us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do any of your Nannies have kids? How do they balance taking their own kids to practices? Do your kids take precedence since you have more money?

Our nanny’s husband takes her boys to practices and extracurriculars because our nanny is a WOHM. Just like me.

Just like you? Than why doesn’t your husband do that?

I actually am a widow. Try again, idiot.