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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Couple examples recently...

1) At the playground, parent whining/cajoling their 5 year old to stop climbing up the slide when another kid was trying to go down.  Lots of: "Come on now Larlo.  I mean it. etc." but the kid is just blatantly ignoring the parent and doesn't get off.  The parent never actually just went over there and removed their kid off the slide.

2) 2 year old girl at our house for a play date, and she doesn't want to leave.  Her mom is saying: "Time to go now Larla!  Please Larla!  We have to go.  If you don't come right now Mommy's going to be very sad at you." and on and on until she ended up bribing her with something.

When these things happen, I truly wonder why parents don't just physically intervene.  Like, why not just pick up your kid and head out?  I know the playdate mom fairly well, and she's smart, and she's not lazy.  [/quote]
Parents are too tired (or lazy) to do the hard work of parenting. Where’s the nanny?[/quote]

Nannies often don’t do anything! I’m a SAHM and we go to Arlington and Vienna parks and there have been a few wonderful nannies, but more often than not they are FaceTiming or on speakerphone or just sitting in a circle not watching the kids. Yesterday for the first time I watched impressed as nanny A confronted nanny B about kid B shoving kid A down a slide. Nanny B had been sitting on a bench not paying attention was like, “Uh ok...” and did nothing. [/quote]

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