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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.  I am guilty of using my phone when my charges play.  Because I work 13-hour days and my only break is when the kids are happily absorbed in a safe and confined area.  That’s why we go to those places.  I am supervising, but I’ve been doing this for over a decade.  I don’t need to stare at them every second they are awake in order to keep them safe.  If we are doing other activities (going on a hike, touring a museum, creating art, swimming, etc. etc.) then I am on and engaged the whole time.  That is fun too but I can’t sustain it for 65 hours a week.  And believe it or not I AM often doing kid-relatwd things.  I volunteer at their school and need to email and text committee members, I order all their clothes, I order groceries every week and make all of their meals so I need to meal plan and use the instacart app and so on.  [b]Many nannies take on everything a SAH parent does but our standards are often higher since we are professionals. [/b] My charges eat home-cooked meals and only use screens when they are ill.[/quote]

This is super false.  I SAH.  I use my time at home to pay bills, budget and invest, make arrangements when something in the house needs to be fixed (or fix it myself), do yard work, make kids doctors appointments (and go to them), refill prescriptions, pick up dry cleaning, shop for all the kids clothes and shoes and sports equipment, make plans for the family on the weekend, plan vacations, etc, as well as of course doing all the laundry, meal planning, cooking, and grocery shopping.

Most nannies do not do all of these things.  And frankly being a SAHM is far more interesting and engaging than being a nanny (which seems like drudgery) because I am 100% in control of how we spend our time, and I have many projects I can work on as well, often with the kids (organizing parts of the garage, arranging to have our patio redone and picking new furniture for it, gardening, etc).  [/quote]

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