Parents please check up on your nannies

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you saying that it doesn't matter if a parent does it, I have to wonder what your issue with a texting nanny is, especially if you think it is okay for you to do it yourself? Either it is harmful or neglectful to the child or it isn't. And if it isn't, then your bitching is nothing more than a power trip. If it is, then you shouldn't do it either.

I make a point of paying attention to my charges while they are awake because I enjoy my job and I want to engage them during our time together. A parent looks just as ignorant texting on their phone at the playground as a nanny does. I also would have no time for a parent that can talk the talk, but isn't willing to walk the walk. Some of you are so pathetic.

Grow up. It does not matter what you think about anything your employer does on her free time. Any employer can ask you do do or not do anything that is legal. If I say "no texting/talking on phone" unless the child is in his crib asleep then that is what you have to do or risk being fired. You answer to your employer - your employer does not answer to you.

My employer understands we are essentially co-parenting.

LOL So are you going to copay for college?

Nope. That part of the equation isn't mine.

You are ridiculous and childish, PP. You are not co-parenting your employers child. You are caring for the child, for a fee, when the parents are not available. You have no right to even consider yourself equal to them. What they do in their free time is no more your business than what you do on your free time is their business.

Some of you children have to grow up as previously suggested. You are an employee and you do what your employer asks (as long as it is legal) or you find another job.

Here's how a former employer recently introduced me to her friends:

"I'd like you to meet Miss X, who made my daughter who she is today."
(Her daughter is a compassionate physician.)

Well, this apparently touched a nerve. Amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Nannies are not children. Employers should be employers and manage their employees, but the tone of your post infantalizes nannies. Most nannies do not do the nonsense you describe and there is no reason to whip everyone up over it. There are probably plenty of other indicators that this nanny is bad at her job, and it probably doesn't require "checking up" on her to see it.

Nearly all occupations I can think of have a check and balance system. I don't think OP is infantilizing anyone. DH is a cardiac surgeon and routinely has superiors watching his surgeries.

As well they should because alcoholism and drug addiction are rampant in the medical profession.