Nanny Rants
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Anonymous
| Just like any job, being a nanny has some downsides. I’ve seen a few rant threads, so I thought it would be nice to have a place for nannies to vent after a long, hard or ridiculous day. |
Anonymous
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Today is not a particularly challenging day for me (so far), but as the op, I thought I’d just get the ball rolling.
To procrastinate nap time, my charge likes to hang out in his mom’s office and play on her work computer (yes she works from home, yes it sucks!) for a while. So, one day, he was particularly ornery. He was begging to do this and that on her computer and she was letting him do whatever. I got completely ignored whenever I mentioned that we should get started on nap time. I was extremely frustrated. When we finally got him into his room, he held onto her neck and told her he wasn’t letting her go ever. She indulged him for an additional five minutes, just laughing and allowing him to hang on her, until it was 15 minutes past the time he needed to be laying down. I was fuming. Then, since she helped screw up his timeline, he didn’t fall asleep. He had a very loud quiet time in which he yelled and begged me to come up there every few minutes. It was great. After his hour of “quiet” time was up, he was straight back to her office to do more stuff. This time, she attempted to tell him no and that she had stuff to do. He smacked her in the face and she picked him up and took him downstairs (where we usually play). He started crying and growing a huge fit while she failed to talk to him or do anything productive. And do you know what she did? She let him back upstairs to do the thing he was throwing a fit about doing. Absolutely ridiculous. I thought my eyes were going to roll out of my head by that point. So yeah, that’s the most recent insane day that I had. |
Anonymous
My MB works from home too and yea it sucks at times. I feel like telling MB to lock her office door because my charge also tends to go in her office. |
Anonymous
| Babies are teething...need I say more. |
Anonymous
I had a similar situation in my last job, OP. Give your notice. It never gets better. |
Anonymous
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I once had a position just like yours (above) OP, and every second OF every single day sucked.
I hated that job, but as a Single Mom..... I felt I would hate starving even more. The job ended on bad terms because like a previous poster stated, these types of jobs just never get better at all. I NEVER work w/the parent home all day anymore. The parents interfere too much (when they are supposedly “working”), the child misbehaves more knowing their parent is in the house + I cannot stand Being micromanaged like some child/student. Thanks for sharing! |
Anonymous
I would love to tell her just to stay away completely lol! I wish I could ask her to at least not come around for nap time, but she loves him too much. Every time we come up from the basement she has to come see him. Does your MB give in to your charge often? |
Anonymous
| ^ Sorry, forgot to say that I’m the op if it wasn’t obvious haha |
Anonymous
Ugh, I’m so sorry! You could say more if it’ll help you feel better. Its such a frustrating time! Back when I worked at this daycare, I would ask all the parents of teething babies to bring me whatever they could, such as teething tablets and numbing gel, so that it would lessen the pain for them and the stress for me. It actually seemed to work (especially the gel!) so maybe you could try that? -Op |
Anonymous
Yeah, I’m not really holding out hope that it’s going to get better. I’ve been with them for over three years, but it’s been so bad lately that I’ve definitely been thinking of finding a new job. I would just feel awful leaving. If you don’t mind me asking, what happened in your last job? I hope you’re in a way better situation now! 
-Op |
Anonymous
I totally get it. Sometimes you just need literally any job to make ends meet. That’s actually how I ended up in my current position. I would never work for a sahp/wahp ever again, either! Lesson learned. I completely agree that the parent interferes too much and yes, my charge totally misbehaves more when his mother is around. Just a few hours ago when I was there, we were calmly building with some legos, and as soon as his mother came down to relieve me, he was jumping all over the place and on her and trying to throw legos at her face. It was so bizarre because that change occurred within seconds. I guess I’m used to it by now, but it’s still crazy to me. -Op |
Anonymous
| My youngest charges slept poorly last night, and he told me himself, after I had already lost track of the number of tantrums. This is information I should have gotten in a text before work or during hand off! Add in that he didn’t want to eat, and it all adds up to the start of a monster of a growth spurt! |
Anonymous
PP here. My employers are actually lovely people and I loved their son - but working with basically a SAHM just was not for me. I felt like a mother's helper! As her child got older, I had no authority in the child's eyes because his mother would undermine me. The child would just look at me and do what he wanted. I got back up in words only - no actions. We parted on very good terms and I still see them. My situation now is brilliant for me. The mother and father both work out of the house and I have total autonomy over the child during the day. We have our classes and our friends as well as our routine and schedule. My employers also let me design the entire playroom and garden play area outside. My charge is amazing! And the job is well paid with travel, healthcare and a new Lexus! And I love the parents. The perfect job for me. |
Anonymous
| You should insist on hazardous duty pay when working for Work at home parent. Twice your hourly rate. |
Anonymous
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To the previous poster who mentioned a free Lexus....
Did your employers actually purchase a brand-new vehicle just for you??! Can you use it during non-working hours too? Is it your car overall....?? That is awesome as heck!! 
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