Therapy sessions for nanny
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Anonymous
| Would you be ok with a nanny taking baby ( under 6 months) to weekly therapy sessions? If they were napping? |
Anonymous
| No. |
Anonymous
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No.
I mean she should attend personal counseling on her off hours. |
Anonymous
| The only way you should consider allowing your nanny to do a personal appointment during her work hours would be if she works very long hours e.g. 8 PM to 8 PM. If that is the case, and my nanny was struggling to the point that she needed weekly therapy, I would assume that the schedule was not working for her and try to reduce her hours by hiring an additional nanny before I would have her bring my child to a personal appointment. |
Anonymous
| I would be concerned at how your nanny will be feeling after the therapy session as well. Probably very emotional and vulnerable. Will she be in a fit state to care for your child? |
Anonymous
| No not ok. |
Anonymous
| No!! |
Anonymous
| No. |
Anonymous
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No.
I would be willing to try to accommodate a schedule change (like getting home early one afternoon a week for some finite period of time) to allow her to get to therapy. But for an ongoing thing no. The baby might be napping now, but that will become less true over time, I want my baby napping well at home - not in the car or on a lap, and what happens when you've started accommodating this but then your child gets older and needs more ongoing interaction. Not to mention that i would think the therapist would not want this. A person in a therapy appointment needs to be fully in that conversation - not multitasking w/ care of an infant. |
Anonymous
| Baby won't always be napping anyway. Not for an hour, and not forever. The therapist isn't going to go for this either. |
Anonymous
| Thanks we will come up with another solution. A friend of ours is moving and her nanny is amazing. We've been discussing having her work for us and my friend let me know that she has this one appt weekly and that she just brought baby a long with her. |
Anonymous
Is it mental health therapy or physical therapy? |
Anonymous
Mental, all I know it's more routine. So no crisis but just an hour to decompress. My friend works in mental health and is super open with it. |
Anonymous
How old is your baby? I'm just really surprised that there's a baby that naps this easily every week at the same time for an hour, for months on end. I'm a MB, and taking my kids to therapy, for anything other than a childcare emergency, would have made it hard for me to concentrate on the therapy itself. |
Anonymous
| I also agree that unless this job is super long hours, it's a little weird to be doing this at all ... |