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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can never understand this peculiar American resistance to children being outside.  I would fire a nanny who would refuse to be outside with my baby/toddler.  We've had a nanny since DS3 was 4 months old.  He is now almost two and I can count on one hand the # of days they stayed inside.  [/quote]

Ok, so you’re not American. Walk us through what you would do with a baby outside during a pandemic with most parks and cafes closed. Where would you sit down to feed the baby? Or, as the PP said, to change the baby? Maybe you would squat down and change the baby on your lap - as men have had to do when the restrooms lack a changing table, but that’s not really something you’d ask a nanny to do.  You also don’t say where you are living, but if you’ve been sending your son and the nanny out in the broiling sun, pouring rain, etc, — since there have only been only 5 days in the last 2 years that they’ve stayed inside, you should know that such practices could be viewed as neglectful - at best, depending on the circumstances.

There have been a few “I don’t understand....” followed by some gross generalizations about Americans questions lately. Are they all coming from the same OP? If so, maybe we could explore everything all at once in an Off Topic post. [/quote]

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