Worried that nanny isn't talking enough to charge

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, your nanny is talking to the baby, about once very five minutes? So, about 20 times an hour? Do you have any idea how much she talks to the baby while taking her for a walk, or feeding her, or in places other than the baby's room?

Yes, babies need to be spoken and sung to, but they do not need constant 1-on-1 narration and interaction. They really don't.

"Need" and can benefit from" are two very different things. And walking in a stroller is the best time to be silent. The nanny should be talking to and engaging the baby when home.

[Anonymous]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/1997/04/17/us/studies-show-talking-with-infants-shapes-basis-of-ability-to-think.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/10/132740565/closing-the-achievement-gap-with-baby-talk

These are not new findings. Anyone remotely educated should know that taking to babies is vital to their development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://mobile.nytimes.com/1997/04/17/us/studies-show-talking-with-infants-shapes-basis-of-ability-to-think.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/10/132740565/closing-the-achievement-gap-with-baby-talk

These are not new findings. Anyone remotely educated should know that taking to babies is vital to their development.

Thank you for these links.

[Anonymous]

I am a nanny. I am not looking after an infant right now, but when I was, I talked to her a lot.
I would say things like: You are eating bananas. Bananas are a fruit. Bananas are yellow. I am feeding you bananas with a green spoon. The bananas are in a bowl. The bowl is blue.
When we went outside, I did the same. "That is a tree. The tree has leaves. The leaves are green. In the fall the leaves turn brown." Etc.
I remember telling her all about the guy who invented Boudreaux's butt paste. I had googled it because I wondered how a guy whose parents gave him a sucky name could have enough confidence to invent and market a diaper cream.
When the baby would babble in her sweet baby talk way, I would pretend that her little nonsense words were the names of towns she was interested in visiting some day when she was a grown up. So then I would make up stories about the things going on in the "towns" she was talking about.

[Anonymous]

Nanny here. I don't know ANY parent around me (family, friends, employers) who constantly talk to their babies.
You are insane for believing nannies will do that all day just because you feel you need to get your $ worth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here. I don't know ANY parent around me (family, friends, employers) who constantly talk to their babies.
You are insane for believing nannies will do that all day just because you feel you need to get your $ worth.

First, what your employer does is not any of your business. It is stunningly immature of you to think it is comparable.

Second, I am a nanny and I actively engage even my newborn charges with narration, singing and reading as well as conversation. It is more than possible, PP. I do it because it is in the best interest of the child and that is my job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here. I don't know ANY parent around me (family, friends, employers) who constantly talk to their babies.
You are insane for believing nannies will do that all day just because you feel you need to get your $ worth.

First, what your employer does is not any of your business. It is stunningly immature of you to think it is comparable.

Second, I am a nanny and I actively engage even my newborn charges with narration, singing and reading as well as conversation. It is more than possible, PP. I do it because it is in the best interest of the child and that is my job.

I think you missed the word "constantly". -DP