Crazy Nanny

[Anonymous]

I'm a student and a nanny and the other day on campus I was chitchatting with another student who is a childhood education major.

I told her I'm a nanny and she lit up and said, "OH! I was a nanny for years! You get so close to the kids, don't you?" I agreed and said, "Yes, it's more than a job (blahblahblah small talk)." and she says:

"Yeah, I've been through so much with my kids...all kinds of crazy days like me hitting them and yelling at them! "

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WTF!?!?!?!?!?

[Anonymous]

The crazy thing is that some parent
who hired the girl actually thought she was a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The crazy thing is that some parent
who hired the girl actually thought she was a nanny.

I was so shocked that she would admit doing something like that- she said it as though it was normal and she thought I could relate. I don't worry for her future students because she would be fired quickly for pulling crap like that at a regular school. But I worry for the kids at the nannying jobs she'll get once she loses her teaching certificate for being a nutjob.

[Anonymous]

I agree. People just need to stopping everyone a nanny. A sitter isn't a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, I know a nanny who informed me that she smokes pot before going to work every day. Appalling. And both her MB and DB are doctors! I don't know how they've never noticed...

[Anonymous]

How old were her charges? You'd think if they were old enough they would tell their parents.. If they're under 3 then yes, that woman needs to be smacked for doing/saying that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I know a nanny who informed me that she smokes pot before going to work every day. Appalling. And both her MB and DB are doctors! I don't know how they've never noticed...

Not that I'm defending the pot-smoking nanny, but a lot of people who smoke pot habitually don't seem or behave oddly after smoking. I smoke (never before work!) a there's nothing I can do sober that I can't do high. Nanny should not be showing up to work anything other than sober, but it doesn't surprise me the parents don't notice.

Anonymous wrote:How old were her charges? You'd think if they were old enough they would tell their parents.. If they're under 3 then yes, that woman needs to be smacked for doing/saying that.

I didn't ask (I was pretty wide-eyed), but I think she said one of the girls was 6 or 7 now and that she didn't work for them anymore.

[Anonymous]

That's good for the some stupid people hire fake nannies

[Anonymous]

There are some pretty incompetent people calling themselves nannies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some pretty incompetent people calling themselves nannies.

...not to mention some incompetent parents also calling them nannies.