A DC area mom writes about her well paid nanny.

[Anonymous]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.romper.com/p/my-nanny-quit-its-all-my-fault-2295/amp

While I admire the honesty in this article, I am dumbfounded that the mom thought she was actually paying her nanny well. Employers, do you take your areas COL into account when deciding if you can actually afford a nanny? Nannies, how do you handle potential employers who offer poverty wages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.romper.com/p/my-nanny-quit-its-all-my-fault-2295/amp

While I admire the honesty in this article, I am dumbfounded that the mom thought she was actually paying her nanny well. Employers, do you take your areas COL into account when deciding if you can actually afford a nanny? Nannies, how do you handle potential employers who offer poverty wages?

I think she sounds like a narcissist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.romper.com/p/my-nanny-quit-its-all-my-fault-2295/amp

While I admire the honesty in this article, I am dumbfounded that the mom thought she was actually paying her nanny well. Employers, do you take your areas COL into account when deciding if you can actually afford a nanny? Nannies, how do you handle potential employers who offer poverty wages?

I think she sounds like a narcissist.

She sounds like many, many parents I have worked with. If you, as a parent, see yourself in this: if you work WITH your nanny, she can and ahould help you to maximize the time you spend with your kids and build your connection with them. If you instead view her as the competition, not only will she likely quit, she also won’t and can’t facilitate your relationship with your kids as much as she otherwise could. If you feel disconnected from your kids, as nanny to help you with that!

[Anonymous]

What a mightmare!

[Anonymous]

Well now the mother/writer has "daycare kids". Hope she is happy. What a selfish, self-centered woman!

[Anonymous]

The fact that she think $600 a week is good pay makes me ill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact that she think $600 a week is good pay makes me ill.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.romper.com/p/my-nanny-quit-its-all-my-fault-2295/amp

While I admire the honesty in this article, I am dumbfounded that the mom thought she was actually paying her nanny well. Employers, do you take your areas COL into account when deciding if you can actually afford a nanny? Nannies, how do you handle potential employers who offer poverty wages?

The nanny is not an indentured servant. She chose to accept a job at a certain salary. If it wasn't acceptable to her she could have negotiated for more or declined the job offer. That nanny did not quit because of the salary - she quit because of the way the mom behaved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.romper.com/p/my-nanny-quit-its-all-my-fault-2295/amp

While I admire the honesty in this article, I am dumbfounded that the mom thought she was actually paying her nanny well. Employers, do you take your areas COL into account when deciding if you can actually afford a nanny? Nannies, how do you handle potential employers who offer poverty wages?

The nanny is not an indentured servant. She chose to accept a job at a certain salary. If it wasn't acceptable to her she could have negotiated for more or declined the job offer. That nanny did not quit because of the salary - she quit because of the way the mom behaved.

+1, that is a reasonable salary for child care.

[Anonymous]

This is REALLY old, I think. It seems like someone posted this a few years ago...before there was a separate nanny forum. This probably was a somewhat respectable wage when the article was written.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.romper.com/p/my-nanny-quit-its-all-my-fault-2295/amp

While I admire the honesty in this article, I am dumbfounded that the mom thought she was actually paying her nanny well. Employers, do you take your areas COL into account when deciding if you can actually afford a nanny? Nannies, how do you handle potential employers who offer poverty wages?

I think she sounds like a narcissist.

She sounds like many, many parents I have worked with. If you, as a parent, see yourself in this: if you work WITH your nanny, she can and ahould help you to maximize the time you spend with your kids and build your connection with them. If you instead view her as the competition, not only will she likely quit, she also won’t and can’t facilitate your relationship with your kids as much as she otherwise could. If you feel disconnected from your kids, as nanny to help you with that!

I don’t see myself in her at all. Bizarre.

[Anonymous]

This Mother/Writer has too many personal issues to even deal w/a Nanny.

Talk about very immature, insecure as well as mental too.

No one can blame that poor girl for leaving that family for good!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is REALLY old, I think. It seems like someone posted this a few years ago...before there was a separate nanny forum. This probably was a somewhat respectable wage when the article was written.

It was published less than 2 years ago. And in one of the top ten most expensive cities in the US, I don't think $600 a week has been a respectable wage in a very long time.

[Anonymous]

$600/week for TWINS? I'm in the Midwest and that is low.

[Anonymous]

I'm a nanny. I would not work full time with 2 kids for that amount. That is not a livable wage, nor is it decent pay for the work required. I do admire that the writer provided reimbursement for health insurance, however. That's hard to find in a nanny position. Why do parents think their nanny doesn't need health insurance?