Nanny to infant question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm assuming she's average weight? Would you not have hired her had she been overweight?

cause her husband won't want to bang the chubby nanny.

[Anonymous]

Why not just straight up ask her not to eat junk food in front of the baby?

I nanny for a 3 year old and an 8month old who eat really healthy - all organic, fruit and veges at almost every meal. I sometimes eat junk in front of the baby, but I never eat do in front of the 3 year old because I know that he will want some! To be honest I usually eat during naptime because I am so busy supervising lunch/ feeding the baby at lunch time.

I think that asking your nanny to only eat when the baby is in bed is a little over the top. Sometimes I have done so much running around, (pushing two kids up hill / playing at the park) that i am starving by 11.45, however I just eat with the kids. I think asking her only to eat in the kitchen is reasonable, because you won't want your child to eat anywhere but there and also your child will be crawling soon and picking up everything with in reach


I would never offer or allow my charges to eat my junk food. I understand that my junk food is bad for my body and am making an informed decision.

[Anonymous]

OP here - thanks for all of the thoughtful replies. After the first round of replies here, I spoke with her (and in a round about way) ended up deciding that the baby and she would have lunch together each day at the table. They started on Wednesday and it seems to have improved things in terms of the length of time of the meal and also what she's eating in front of him. I've noticed she's been leaving her junk food until nap time. I've been working from home since Wednesday, so it's been easy to kind of pop in and out. Hopefully, she'll keep going once I am back in the office next week - but she seems to like it too and I am happy she is modeling "meal time" at the table with my son.
No idea why it matters what size she is, but I'd say she's on the lower end of obese. She is still energetic and mobile, so that's all we cared about when interviewing nannies. And I appreciate all of the feedback - I personally don't like to be hungry, so I didn't want to institute when she could eat or not eat, but I also wanted her to be modeling good behavior for my son and she has at least three hours a day where she can veg, eat junk food, watch TV etc, so it's not like she's working some insane schedule here. Oh, and we provide all of her food - she just adds what she wants to our grocery list on the fridge - I honestly could careless how she eats (well, I do care about her well being and health), but I do care if my child suddenly wants to only eat those foods!

[Anonymous]

OP if you need to be this controlling, stay home and watch your own kid. I wake up at 6am to drive to workk and eat oatmeal. Around 9am I have a snack. Lunch is noon. Snack 3pm. Dinner 6pm. I eat every three hours and for some people they get really cranky without food. I need energy to care for kids. You're not running a fat camp, you're employing a nanny. No she can't eat in your living room, but you can't control her food choices or when she eats, this is very unreasonable.

Get a life.