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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is ultimately why I quit my job and stayed home with my kids, sorry to say.  I was always worried about the values and attitudes which were being transmitted to my kids once they were old enough to talk, and I never really found anyone whose values and attitudes were close enough to mine that I wanted to give them that power to shape my kids' thoughts and identities.

I even served at one point as a coordinator for an au pair program and ultimately decided that I was less interested in "exchanging" values and ideas with a not very academically inclined Eastern European teenager, as I was in actually passing on our family's own values and attitudes to our kids.

I felt like having someone else spend that much time with my kids and shaping in that way would only work if they were really an awful lot like me -- feminist, socially liberal but still religious, kind of type A, etc.  
I think I was probably the employer from hell because [b]I wanted to choose what the kids ate, the music they listened to in the minivan on the way to swim lessons,[/b] etc. All of that was really important to me and it ultimately made it impossible to delegate.
It sounds like that's kind of what you're struggling with too. [/quote]

This has to be a troll.[/quote]

As a career nanny, I see why she would want this. [/quote]

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