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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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?[/quote]

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?  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.  [/quote]

+1. When I’m at a restaurant I don’t ask waitresses  who is feeding their kids at home.  It’s a job.  People deal. My neighbors are a two lawyer family with 4 kids and none of those teenage kids are allowed to do extracurriculars that involve a parent driving them around during the week.  Are these kids underprivileged? [/quote]

Yes.  They are a little underprivileged.  ECs and sports are a huge draw for the top colleges.  A kid in my little sister’s graduating class had a 1600 and perfect grades but nothing else and got rejected at Stanford.  [/quote]

There are a lot of activities that can be done through the school that don't involve driving all around town. Tons of sports, school plays, clubs, etc. [/quote]

Not at our school until 7th grade.  That’s been a problem for us.  And music lessons aren’t offered at all. [/quote]

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