What's the most ridiculous thing you're been reprimanded for?

[Anonymous]

Too much paper towels, too many baggies per week, too many wipes per diaper change.
Just use the same as you use at your home as if you are buying it. Three paper towels per hand wash is stupid, just use a towel or one.
It is difficult to access if a nanny is being wasteful with products and items in the house. Try to be energy efficient and courteous. It's that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too much paper towels, too many baggies per week, too many wipes per diaper change.
Just use the same as you use at your home as if you are buying it. Three paper towels per hand wash is stupid, just use a towel or one.
It is difficult to access if a nanny is being wasteful with products and items in the house. Try to be energy efficient and courteous. It's that simple.

You can dry your hands with a single sheet of paper towel? Impressive.

And the courtesy has to go both ways. I'm sure all these nannies are professional and have always TRIED to conserve items. It's not rare for much more to be needed. And what then? Should they feel guilty or get in trouble? No. It's ridiculous. Yes they are employees in your house but they are also humans, show a little humility... If the nannies needs a single sheet or so more of paper towels to get the job done then for Christ's sake let it go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too much paper towels, too many baggies per week, too many wipes per diaper change.
Just use the same as you use at your home as if you are buying it. Three paper towels per hand wash is stupid, just use a towel or one.
It is difficult to access if a nanny is being wasteful with products and items in the house. Try to be energy efficient and courteous. It's that simple.

You can dry your hands with a single sheet of paper towel? Impressive.

And the courtesy has to go both ways. I'm sure all these nannies are professional and have always TRIED to conserve items. It's not rare for much more to be needed. And what then? Should they feel guilty or get in trouble? No. It's ridiculous. Yes they are employees in your house but they are also humans, show a little humility... If the nannies needs a single sheet or so more of paper towels to get the job done then for Christ's sake let it go.

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seriously...... It's not enough that we are performing this work for you in the first place, now you would expect us to do it without the supplies that are needed to do it properly? (Enough wipes, paper towels, etc....) have you ever tried to clean a baby's bum without enough wipes? It's not exactly possible. Rude! Common courtesy... Be nice to your nanny or she will leave for another family who lets her use the amount of paper towels she needs to absorb the water from her hands (after I'm assuming trying to get them clean for your baby)! Geez.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too much paper towels, too many baggies per week, too many wipes per diaper change.
Just use the same as you use at your home as if you are buying it. Three paper towels per hand wash is stupid, just use a towel or one.
It is difficult to access if a nanny is being wasteful with products and items in the house. Try to be energy efficient and courteous. It's that simple.

Op here. I suggest you actually give drying your hands with one sheet of paper towel a shot. See how that works out for you.

And this family just so happened to not have dish rags to dry with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was once corrected for using 2 or 3 sheets of papers towels to dry my hands instead of one.

With a different family I was told I was cutting a banana wrong!

I would say something about the paper towel use too - we have dish towels specifically for drying clean hands.

I would have a fit for using dish towels. They are dirty the first time someone dries their hands. I only use paper towels, Bounty, in my house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was once corrected for using 2 or 3 sheets of papers towels to dry my hands instead of one.

With a different family I was told I was cutting a banana wrong!

I would say something about the paper towel use too - we have dish towels specifically for drying clean hands.

I would have a fit for using dish towels. They are dirty the first time someone dries their hands. I only use paper towels, Bounty, in my house.

I agree - but NEVER Bounty! It's ridiculously expensive and owned by those vile Koch Brothers. I use the cheapest paper towel - but I always use paper towel. It is the safest way not to transmit/transfer cold germs which is especially important when you are caring for a newborn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too much paper towels, too many baggies per week, too many wipes per diaper change.
Just use the same as you use at your home as if you are buying it. Three paper towels per hand wash is stupid, just use a towel or one.
It is difficult to access if a nanny is being wasteful with products and items in the house. Try to be energy efficient and courteous. It's that simple.

You can dry your hands with a single sheet of paper towel? Impressive.

And the courtesy has to go both ways. I'm sure all these nannies are professional and have always TRIED to conserve items. It's not rare for much more to be needed. And what then? Should they feel guilty or get in trouble? No. It's ridiculous. Yes they are employees in your house but they are also humans, show a little humility... If the nannies needs a single sheet or so more of paper towels to get the job done then for Christ's sake let it go.

+1

seriously...... It's not enough that we are performing this work for you in the first place, now you would expect us to do it without the supplies that are needed to do it properly? (Enough wipes, paper towels, etc....) have you ever tried to clean a baby's bum without enough wipes? It's not exactly possible. Rude! Common courtesy... Be nice to your nanny or she will leave for another family who lets her use the amount of paper towels she needs to absorb the water from her hands (after I'm assuming trying to get them clean for your baby)! Geez.....

Really the only ones using too many wipes are inexperienced ftm and wasteful nannies. When I was a new mom, I would use 10 wipes for poo change and my mom would use 3 maybe 4 and baby pooped the same.

[Anonymous]

I once had a DB tell me that his 12 month-old (just learning to walk) daughter was never allowed to fall. He wanted me to walk and sit behind her at all times. Funny thing is, we were part of a nanny share and I cared for another 1 year old. It didn't last very long.

[Anonymous]

They used to blame me for their kid not sleeping well at night. They said he was sleeping too much during the day. He had a half-hour morning nap, and a 2 hour afternoon nap. Somehow this 10 month old was sleeping the day away.

I didn't speak up, but he wasn't sleeping at night because they would run in his room at every little whimper, which would cause this groggy child to fully wake up. I simply sleep-trained him. And he barely had to CIO. He just thrived with my structure.

[Anonymous]

I've been told I was going through too many diapers with an infant boy (I was changing them when wet and when the blue line appears) , and was told to hold off because they lady longer when I'm not around. Um ok. Same family said I needed to let the infant be more independent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was once asked (so not really reprimanded) if I could please back the stroller into the apartment instead of rolling it in front first. I'm still not sure why.

It's actually easier to do this with a stroller/dolly/wheelchair and prevents the stroller from going over front first.

Why would a stroller go over front first when rolling into an apartment, but not when rolling anywhere else? I don't see people backing their strollers down the sidewalk or into or out of stores, so why apartments?

[Anonymous]

I've had the basics; using too many diapers, wipes, laundry detergent.... I don't think it's ridiculous, just obnoxious. I know how many things we go through a week because I'm the one using them.

Did have a parent say they only wanted the child's diaper changed if he had a BM or it was so heavy with urine it leaked. I left that position very quickly.


I had a parent flip out that their 2-year-old was bitten at daycare. They went on and on and said they'd sue the daycare for negligence. I held my tongue for as long as I could, but eventually told them they were in for a long hall if that was their attitude and that they might as well wrap her in a plastic bubble.

The parents go nuts because a toddler bit their child, saying they wanted to contact the child's parents. Yet not a week before the father spanked the child's bare bottom so hard it left a handprint for several days.

[Anonymous]

Had an MB get very upset that I used coconut oil on her kid's cradle cap because she thought it would cause a nut allergy. To her credit, she looked it up and realized I was not putting the kid in danger (and I now know better than to attempt to fix anything like that without her explicit permission).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've had the basics; using too many diapers, wipes, laundry detergent.... I don't think it's ridiculous, just obnoxious. I know how many things we go through a week because I'm the one using them.

Did have a parent say they only wanted the child's diaper changed if he had a BM or it was so heavy with urine it leaked. I left that position very quickly.


I had a parent flip out that their 2-year-old was bitten at daycare. They went on and on and said they'd sue the daycare for negligence. I held my tongue for as long as I could, but eventually told them they were in for a long hall if that was their attitude and that they might as well wrap her in a plastic bubble.

The parents go nuts because a toddler bit their child, saying they wanted to contact the child's parents. Yet not a week before the father spanked the child's bare bottom so hard it left a handprint for several days.

I would have reported him.

[Anonymous]

Same with the monthly cleaner. She just goes around dumping $50 of cleaning fluids, gently wipes up with 2-3 paper towel rolls and then asks for $75 cash.
Guess that's one way to do things.

If you didn't buy it, you don't care how much or how quickly it gets used up. Maybe you don't even know how much a diaper or roll even costs.