What are your nanny "superpowers?"

[Anonymous]

I amaze my employers with my "power" to figure out how toys work. Even toys that have been in the home long before I was there. They had no idea that stuffed elephant played music. That was just the latest example.

What's your superpower?

[Anonymous]

Getting the twin 6 month olds to nap at the same time AND for 2+ hours at each nap. MB and DB still haven't figured out how I do it as their naps over the weekend are shit for them.

[Anonymous]

Multitasking. My bosses are always floored at my ability to care for twin 8 month olds, wash and fold laundry, prepare kid meals as well as family dinners, and the place is spotless. What they don't know is that when I'm at work, there are plenty of days where I don't sit. Really. Not at all. But I love being busy and enjoy the company of little ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Multitasking. My bosses are always floored at my ability to care for twin 8 month olds, wash and fold laundry, prepare kid meals as well as family dinners, and the place is spotless. What they don't know is that when I'm at work, there are plenty of days where I don't sit. Really. Not at all. But I love being busy and enjoy the company of little ones.

Are the babies calm? I try to make myself sit when the children eat. I think children really need that. Lots of families don't bother.

[Anonymous]

I have been called the baby whisperer more than a couple of times. I'm just really good at being able to read a baby cues when putting them to sleep and finding out the best way to do so. I feel like I have the magic touch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Multitasking. My bosses are always floored at my ability to care for twin 8 month olds, wash and fold laundry, prepare kid meals as well as family dinners, and the place is spotless. What they don't know is that when I'm at work, there are plenty of days where I don't sit. Really. Not at all. But I love being busy and enjoy the company of little ones.

Are the babies calm? I try to make myself sit when the children eat. I think children really need that. Lots of families don't bother.

Yeah they're pretty laid back. The way their high chairs are set up (in the kitchen not at the table), I actually stand through meal times helping them when they need it, washing dishes, tidying counters, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been called the baby whisperer more than a couple of times. I'm just really good at being able to read a baby cues when putting them to sleep and finding out the best way to do so. I feel like I have the magic touch.

Hah! I've been called that too. I can get even the most reluctant babies to sleep, and have an "intuitive" (old MB's words, not mine) sense of what small infants need at any given moment. My current charge was 11 months when I met her for the first time, and 5 minutes in to the interview she was playing with me and sitting on my lap. Apparently up to that point she hadn't been comfortable with anyone other than her parents, including aunts and uncles, close family friends, etc. It was a good feeling