Nannies, do you read child-rearing books?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I don't. But I have my degree in psychology with an emphasis on child development. If the parents I was working for wanted to employ a certain technique from a book, then I would read it.

What if it wasn't working successfully for the child? Would you still keep doing it, just because they told you to?

PP you quoted and no, I wouldn't. I would sit down and talk with the parents about how I wasn't seeing results with the techniques from the book and offer up different ideas.

[Anonymous]

I've read some but certainly not all. These days I usually browse the internet for interesting things. I've never worked for a family that was completely one approach either - it's usually a mix of things, which seems like the best way of getting results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have not. If a parent requested that I do read any of those and offered to pay me for my time reading then I would gladly do it.

You are a real peach.

Why? Because I want to be paid for my time? Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have not. If a parent requested that I do read any of those and offered to pay me for my time reading then I would gladly do it.

You are a real peach.

Why? Because I want to be paid for my time? Grow up.

No, because you refuse to educate yourself in your chosen profession. No one knows it all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent/employer here - any parenting books we reference are made available to the nanny, but I don't expect her to read the whole thing. I provide the practical summary of the approach we're using.

Parenting books spend a lot of time going over the theory of change, why the author thinks this works, etc etc etc. A nanny may find that interesting, and if so, she's welcome to read it. But I don't request it specifically.

If parents want to employ a method that I don't know, I don't want a summary. I need to read the book and discuss it with the parents, understand why it would work better for their child than other methods and why the parents want to use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent/employer here - any parenting books we reference are made available to the nanny, but I don't expect her to read the whole thing. I provide the practical summary of the approach we're using.

Parenting books spend a lot of time going over the theory of change, why the author thinks this works, etc etc etc. A nanny may find that interesting, and if so, she's welcome to read it. But I don't request it specifically.

If parents want to employ a method that I don't know, I don't want a summary. I need to read the book and discuss it with the parents, understand why it would work better for their child than other methods and why the parents want to use it.

Sounds right to me.

[Anonymous]

If a house has parenting books in it I always pick them up and read them. Have learnt some really interesting things from some of them