Isolation of Nanny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any parent would go crazy if they didn't have SOME kind of adult interaction during the long days with a small child.

You have to wonder if extreme isolation is what can cause a person to suddenly "snap"?

Thoughts?

Stay at home moms spend endless stretches of time w/o adult interaction. Professional nannies can spend years choosing to work primarily with infants, and therefore primarily w/o significant adult interaction during their workdays.

Why are you looking for a fight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any parent would go crazy if they didn't have SOME kind of adult interaction during the long days with a small child.

You have to wonder if extreme isolation is what can cause a person to suddenly "snap"?

Thoughts?

Stay at home moms spend endless stretches of time w/o adult interaction. Professional nannies can spend years choosing to work primarily with infants, and therefore primarily w/o significant adult interaction during their workdays.

Why are you looking for a fight?

I said SOME adult interaction.
And no, parents do NOT spend 10-12 hrs/day in isolation with a baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want our nanny to have adult interaction, of course, as I know it is important. She gets it when she takes the kids out and to their various classes and public places. I encourage her friendships with mothers and other nannies.

What I do NOT want is her on the phone to her friends and boyfriend when she is working.

+ 1 If I catch our DD's nanny on her phone one more time she will be fired. We have given her three separate warnings and the last time told her of the consequences. I am so sick of seeing nannies on their phones that I could scream.

If you are at work you feel it is fine for you to be on DCUM? U ou should be fired.

I wasn't at work when I posted, Dear. And I am the boss - not the nanny. I can fire whomever I choose for whatever reason I see fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any parent would go crazy if they didn't have SOME kind of adult interaction during the long days with a small child.

You have to wonder if extreme isolation is what can cause a person to suddenly "snap"?

Thoughts?

Nonsense. Stop being so melodramatic and childish.

[Anonymous]

I am the opposite of isolated!! I take my charge to classes/story time/activities every morning with other nannies and mothers. Every afternoon we are at the park or the library -- all with other nannies and mothers. He is a very active boy and benefits from the activities -- and so does his nanny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the opposite of isolated!! I take my charge to classes/story time/activities every morning with other nannies and mothers. Every afternoon we are at the park or the library -- all with other nannies and mothers. He is a very active boy and benefits from the activities -- and so does his nanny!

Certainly no problem there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any parent would go crazy if they didn't have SOME kind of adult interaction during the long days with a small child.

You have to wonder if extreme isolation is what can cause a person to suddenly "snap"?

Thoughts?

Nonsense. Stop being so melodramatic and childish.

I bet you're guilty as charged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any parent would go crazy if they didn't have SOME kind of adult interaction during the long days with a small child.

You have to wonder if extreme isolation is what can cause a person to suddenly "snap"?

Thoughts?

Nonsense. Stop being so melodramatic and childish.

I bet you're guilty as charged.

I bet you have a double digit IQ.

[Anonymous]

Any parent would go crazy if they didn't have SOME kind of adult interaction during the long days with a small child.

You have to wonder if extreme isolation is what can cause a person to suddenly "snap"?

Thoughts?

Melodramatic nonsense. Working a long day with a small child is not "extreme isolation" and any nanny who would "snap" is a terrible nanny who should find another profession.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Any parent would go crazy if they didn't have SOME kind of adult interaction during the long days with a small child.

You have to wonder if extreme isolation is what can cause a person to suddenly "snap"?

Thoughts?

Melodramatic nonsense. Working a long day with a small child is not "extreme isolation" and any nanny who would "snap" is a terrible nanny who should find another profession.

Likewise, some parents should not be left to do the job of parenting.
Hello, Nanny.

[Anonymous]

I was fine with my nanny spending as much time as she wanted in classes or with other nannies. I would not have been fine with her spending long amounts of time on the phone or texting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was fine with my nanny spending as much time as she wanted in classes or with other nannies. I would not have been fine with her spending long amounts of time on the phone or texting.

Did you put that in your agreement?

[Anonymous]

Smart nannies do their job well, AND make sure they have daily adult social communication.

Ten to twelve hours is a LONG work shift.

[Anonymous]

Nanny isolation is not wise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smart nannies do their job well, AND make sure they have daily adult social communication.

Ten to twelve hours is a LONG work shift.