MBs know everything

[Anonymous]

No offence but that's ridiculous. Sometimes the nanny just supervises while the child does independent play. The child doesn't like the nanny to hover around all the time, especially if there's a playdate or something going on. (I'm talking about kids 6 and up)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No offence but that's ridiculous. Sometimes the nanny just supervises while the child does independent play. The child doesn't like the nanny to hover around all the time, especially if there's a playdate or something going on. (I'm talking about kids 6 and up)

To which post are you responding?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No offence but that's ridiculous. Sometimes the nanny just supervises while the child does independent play. The child doesn't like the nanny to hover around all the time, especially if there's a playdate or something going on. (I'm talking about kids 6 and up)

Hell, toddlers and infants need independent play. By no means should the nanny sit on her ass and play on her phone, but at all ages small doses of independent play is important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call it what you want, love or lack of discipline. It is the same thing.

If this is what you think, you're doing it wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call it what you want, love or lack of discipline. It is the same thing.

If this is what you think, you're doing it wrong.

Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Look, while some of you real people make good points, you do all realize you're arguing with a troll post, right? You don't really think some silly "MB" leaves her kids home all day with someone she doesn't trust only to come here and post about it a clearly argumentative manner? People, put on your thinking caps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, while some of you real people make good points, you do all realize you're arguing with a troll post, right? You don't really think some silly "MB" leaves her kids home all day with someone she doesn't trust only to come here and post about it a clearly argumentative manner? People, put on your thinking caps.

post about it IN A clearly argumentative....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look, while some of you real people make good points, you do all realize you're arguing with a troll post, right? You don't really think some silly "MB" leaves her kids home all day with someone she doesn't trust only to come here and post about it a clearly argumentative manner? People, put on your thinking caps.

post about it IN A clearly argumentative....

Every good troll post has a kernel of reality. Sometimes it's fun to argue with the straw man who's actually saying what your boss or nanny thinks but never says aloud.

[Anonymous]

"Fun to argue"; a very trolly opinion.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm pretty sure the nanny knows just as much, and probably more, about us than we know about the nanny -- or at least about her day with our kids.

Which is why it's a wonderful thing to have a nanny you can think of as a partner rather than as someone to constantly be suspicious of and micro-managing. (Stickers from the sticker book? I can't imagine noticing this sort of thing.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some crazy nannies who belong in the mental institute on this board.

Side note, kids act worse with their own parents because they are more comfortable and feel more loved. How well they behave with you compared to the mother is nothing to brag about.

And also because the parents don't use discipline.

You want to post here about how MBs notice everything? Nannies do too. I know which parents hold their kids accountable and which parents don't. I know if your whining child gets his own way because you're sick of hearing him complain and I know if you have absentee-mom guilt and load them up on sugar in the evenings when you get home, building the bridge to a disastrous nighttime routine. We know how you run things in your home and, having seen many such homes up close and personal, we know what works and what doesn't.

But good luck with that. Clearly we're just hired to be silent servants, not because we're good at what we do.

You don't need a degree to be a nanny. All the attitudes on this board by you nannies are a perfect example. Your egos are way to large. You feel a need to prove yourselfs and it only makes you look that much worse.

And I agree with the PP. Kids definitely do act much worse with their own parents because it's their parents.. They're most comfortable. Just like how children fight with their brothers/sisters but act nice with the other playground kids.. It's really nothing to brag about..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Fun to argue"; a very trolly opinion.

A very true opinion. Why do you think every thread has a list full of argumentive comments? Your lying if your denying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, while some of you real people make good points, you do all realize you're arguing with a troll post, right? You don't really think some silly "MB" leaves her kids home all day with someone she doesn't trust only to come here and post about it a clearly argumentative manner? People, put on your thinking caps.

Trust and knowing when you make little lies and letting it slide are two different things. I agree with OP; I know a lot more about what goes on in the house than I let on. I also know sometimes she tells white lies (eg. kids ate the vegetables). It's not often AFAIK. When she has a bad day I think she just tries to paint a rosy picture for me instead of telling me the truth.

She's never made big lies so I still trust her to keep my kids safe during the day.