Have you changed nannies in the past year and have a child between 0-6?

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Was a non issue.
She moved.

[Anonymous]

There are no lasting effects on changing caregivers. Kids understand they aren't family.

[Anonymous]

Different au pair every two years or so. Works smoothly and everyone has seemed happy enough, now on AP number three/ year 6!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no lasting effects on changing caregivers. Kids understand they aren't family.

Depends on their age of instability of primary caregivers, incompetence of caregiver, or lack of a loving care-giver. Children absolutely require all three during their foundational years, from birth to age three.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are no lasting effects on changing caregivers. Kids understand they aren't family.

Depends on their age of instability of primary caregivers, incompetence of caregiver, or lack of a loving care-giver. Children absolutely require all three during their foundational years, from birth to age three.

Children require instability, incompetence, and love?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are no lasting effects on changing caregivers. Kids understand they aren't family.

Depends on their age of instability of primary caregivers, incompetence of caregiver, or lack of a loving care-giver. Children absolutely require all three during their foundational years, from birth to age three.

Children require instability, incompetence, and love?

During their foundational years of early childhood, from birth through age three, children require a primary caregiver who is

1. Stable
2. Competent
3. Loving

Without these basics of building a solid foundation, there can easily be devastating long-range consequences. It's not pretty, people, but it's a fact. This is why we hear about "The Hell of American Daycare". Google it.

Mental health, or lack thereof, is often rooted in early childhood. This can include some of the increasingly common disabilities that are now being treated by psychiatrists who usually prescribe risky psychiatric prescription medications. Sometimes these medications can help a child cope with their conditions, but often they don't help. This is not to mention the fact that it can take months, if not years for the psychiatrists to figure out the best drug, and then to figure out the best dose. Because your child's brain is still in its development, these drugs can have undesirable consequences.

Of course the parents' mental health and genes have a strong influence has well.

[Anonymous]

It would take more time to complete this survey than it took to determine "strategies for managing the loss".

We switched nannies. From a great one of 3 years to another great one.

Kids were fine.

[Anonymous]

We moved. Our nanny did not move with us. I am not sure how you would separate the effects of the move away from grandparents, family, friends, church, and school from the change in their nanny.

[Anonymous]

I would also forget about the gift cards. No one employing a nanny is going to be motivated to complete a thirty minute survey by the possibility of a $50 gift card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would also forget about the gift cards. No one employing a nanny is going to be motivated to complete a thirty minute survey by the possibility of a $50 gift card.

especially the chance of a gift card. 30 minutes of my time is worth waaaaay more than that

[Anonymous]

Tried to complete the survey but right away there was a question about my partner's profession that I wasn't allowed to skip. When I tried to leave it blank as I'm a single parent, the system wouldn't let me move forward. I don't need to participate in something with such a clear bias against non-traditional families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no lasting effects on changing caregivers. Kids understand they aren't family.

Nannies understand they are not their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tried to complete the survey but right away there was a question about my partner's profession that I wasn't allowed to skip. When I tried to leave it blank as I'm a single parent, the system wouldn't let me move forward. I don't need to participate in something with such a clear bias against non-traditional families.

Or so poorly designed/thought through.

[Anonymous]

My mothervdued when I was 4 yrs okd. My father was military stations in a war zone) and overnight everything that was familiar to me changes. Siblings all sent off to private schools. I was sent to live with an aunt I had never met. A year later he came back and hired a live-in nanny, next year I was sent to boarding school.

I can assure you that these changes had a tremendously deleterious effect on my life. You are deluding yourselves if you think changing caregivers frequently has no effect on your child.