Nanny confessions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all have them. Even moms can chime in!

I'm currently sitting in a parking lot because both kids fell sound asleep on the way home from the store. They were so crabby this afternoon that I'm enjoying the silence until it's time for me to go home.

I let my charges watch tv all afternoon a couple of times a week and I go shopping with the littlest one at least 3 times a week for personal shopping. I have also taken some food and cleaning supplies home. I am underpaid so I do not feel guilty.

You are the reason people get so snarky on these pages. There is a world of difference between sitting in a parking lot to allow children to sleep and basically signing off from your job and stealing. If you feel underpaid, it's on you to fix the situation. Stop punishing the children because you have issues with their parents and stop making the rest of us nannies look bad with your inexcusable behavior.

[Anonymous]

Stop pretending that employer and employee stand on level ground. They don't. That's why there are different laws pertaining to each of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We all have them. Even moms can chime in!

I'm currently sitting in a parking lot because both kids fell sound asleep on the way home from the store. They were so crabby this afternoon that I'm enjoying the silence until it's time for me to go home.

I let my charges watch tv all afternoon a couple of times a week and I go shopping with the littlest one at least 3 times a week for personal shopping. I have also taken some food and cleaning supplies home. I am underpaid so I do not feel guilty.

You are the reason people get so snarky on these pages. There is a world of difference between sitting in a parking lot to allow children to sleep and basically signing off from your job and stealing. If you feel underpaid, it's on you to fix the situation. Stop punishing the children because you have issues with their parents and stop making the rest of us nannies look bad with your inexcusable behavior.

This.

I pretty much will bet that this user is some anti-nanny nut who wants us to look like lazy crooks.

[Anonymous]

I'm suppose to let the 6-month-old CIO but sometimes I go in there and pat him till he falls asleep.

Go ahead and tell me how much damage I'm doing for not letting him learn how to sleep independently, I can't stand to hear him scream at the top of his lungs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm suppose to let the 6-month-old CIO but sometimes I go in there and pat him till he falls asleep.

Go ahead and tell me how much damage I'm doing for not letting him learn how to sleep independently, I can't stand to hear him scream at the top of his lungs.

Well, if the parents are letting him CIO for naps on the weekends then you are inconsistently reinforcing a habit, which means he'll end up crying for more naps then if you didn't. Just a thought. Caregivers either sleep train or they don't and I don't care - but don't do both. That is a bit damaging.

[Anonymous]

Actually, it's tremendously damaging. I can't believe parents delegating such an important phase of their child's development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm suppose to let the 6-month-old CIO but sometimes I go in there and pat him till he falls asleep.

Go ahead and tell me how much damage I'm doing for not letting him learn how to sleep independently, I can't stand to hear him scream at the top of his lungs.

Well, if the parents are letting him CIO for naps on the weekends then you are inconsistently reinforcing a habit, which means he'll end up crying for more naps then if you didn't. Just a thought. Caregivers either sleep train or they don't and I don't care - but don't do both. That is a bit damaging.

I oppose CIO, when I interviewed MB and DB were 100% against the practice. They changed when LO was about 4-months-old. We tried, he just is a high needs child and CIO is not going to work. I'm not going to allow him to cry for 45 minutes and make himself puke. I just am not. I'm honest about it. I tell MB/DB that I can't stand it, and they kind of get upset but not made enough to fire me. So if I'm fired for not allowing a young infant to scream till he's sweating, than so be it.