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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it’s because focusing your attention exclusively on your 2 year old for 8 hours doesn’t sound that healthy. The only benefit of SAH (IMO) is more time, flexibility, and less stress. You seem to somehow have turned parenting into a job. If you like it that way fine - but there’s nothing better about your way. [/quote]

Then why don’t people ask nannies to run a bunch of errands or clean the house with a 2 year old in tow?[/quote]

You seem to have trouble with the distinction between a nanny who is working as an employee in someone else’s household and a person who is running their own household.[/quote]

This. The nanny is being paid to do a job. Of course she should not be on the phone for more than a few minutes while kids are home/awake. The at doesn’t mean a SAHM can’t talk to her mother for an hour while with her kids. [/quote]

People pay nannies to not be on their phones all day because it's not ideal for the kids. It's not just some arbitrary rule to make the nanny's life harder. And because it's not ideal for the kids, SAHM's don't want to do it either. I have a 2 and 4 yo. I truly could not talk to someone on the phone for an hour while watching them unless I turned on the TV or did it during naptime. I'm not going to turn on the TV for an hour so I can make a call, and sure I could do it during naptime. I'm sure a nanny could make a call during naptime too, if her employer doesn't give her other tasks. And I ALSO have other tasks to do during naptime.[/quote]

Every kid is different. I can sit on the porch while my kids play in the backyard and they will not ask me to do anything for an hour usually. We actually had a nanny and I do not have these crazy restrictions.

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