Stay at home mom and nanny?

[Anonymous]

"Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?"

No, there are many reasons the patients she treats need her services and it's possible that those reasons have nothing to do with their parents or their parent's money.

Secondly, just because a mother is physician who may know a thing or two about some of the qualities of happy and healthy adults doesn't mean she mean she has to pay a lot of money to get a good nanny.

Logic would instead indicate that a smart, wealthy person got that way by not overspending when they can get a quality product for less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?

Nope. I'm sure your MB would be indispensable for medicating a schizofrenic child, or for treating actual medical illnesses. If pediatric psychiatry was about raising "healthy, happy adults", it would take 8 years of training to get there. You want to look up the difference between psychology and psychiatry perhaps. If you want to provide evidence that children of pediatric psychiatrists turn out happier and healthier than other children, please do so.

I don't get your worship of money. Wealthy people aren't necessarily smarter than us in every single detail. Would you be as reverential to your MB if she was a partner at a la
w firm? It doesn't matter what they do as long as they are rich? What about wealthy trust fund MBs?

No worship of money on my part, lol. Please resist your urge to pronounce someone's relationship with money, especially those people who you have never even meet. Perhaps you have an issue with people who are in fact wealthy?
The point here is that they typically can afford more, and better, than those who are not wealthy. It so happens that wealthier families can afford to hire those higher priced nannies if desired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?

Nope. I'm sure your MB would be indispensable for medicating a schizofrenic child, or for treating actual medical illnesses. If pediatric psychiatry was about raising "healthy, happy adults", it would take 8 years of training to get there. You want to look up the difference between psychology and psychiatry perhaps. If you want to provide evidence that children of pediatric psychiatrists turn out happier and healthier than other children, please do so.

I don't get your worship of money. Wealthy people aren't necessarily smarter than us in every single detail. Would you be as reverential to your MB if she was a partner at a la
w firm? It doesn't matter what they do as long as they are rich? What about wealthy trust fund MBs?

No worship of money on my part, lol. Please resist your urge to pronounce someone's relationship with money, especially those people who you have never even meet. Perhaps you have an issue with people who are in fact wealthy?
The point here is that they typically can afford more, and better, than those who are not wealthy. It so happens that wealthier families can afford to hire those higher priced nannies if desired.

Higher-priced isn't necessarily code for "better." Didn't a rich family's nanny at NYC just off kill her charges? I've said it before - if a better nanny was as easy to spot as a larger house, we wouldn't be here. And I recall you weren't just chest-thumping about your wealthy MB, you seemed to take a particular pride in her MD degree. What if she was a poor MD? Would you be just as enthusiastic?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Are you seriously so self-centered to think that your opinions are the only ones that matter? Come to your senses, woman.

Well, I'm suggesting that you ask other parents so clearly I don't think my opinion is the only one that matters.

But I'll give you, that on the matter of whether nannies with children are more or less marketable than nannies without children, I think that opinions of parent employers matter more than opinions of nanny applicants.

Clearly the opinion of parent employers is more relevant to an inquiry about hiring preferences and marketability than the opinion of one unhinged nanny. Unfortunately, this probably isn't a great place to poll parents, because the behavior of a couple of the nannies on this board has driven most of them away.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?"

No, there are many reasons the patients she treats need her services and it's possible that those reasons have nothing to do with their parents or their parent's money.

Secondly, just because a mother is physician who may know a thing or two about some of the qualities of happy and healthy adults doesn't mean she mean she has to pay a lot of money to get a good nanny.

Logic would instead indicate that a smart, wealthy person got that way by not overspending when they can get a quality product for less.

You may do with your money as you see fit. Lots of other parents choose the best childcare they can afford. No need for you to keep arguing about it. You sound like you are terrified of losing your nanny to a better family. Sad.

[Anonymous]

You realize that you're the one who keeps arguing about it, butting into every thread with your Fable of Child Psychiatrist Who Picked Me Because She's Smart and Rich, right? People who respond to your drivel aren't the same person because everyone reads your crap the same way.

You don't even know that this person has a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You realize that you're the one who keeps arguing about it, butting into every thread with your Fable of Child Psychiatrist Who Picked Me Because She's Smart and Rich, right? People who respond to your drivel aren't the same person because everyone reads your crap the same way.

You don't even know that this person has a nanny.

+1 and I'm a nanny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You realize that you're the one who keeps arguing about it, butting into every thread with your Fable of Child Psychiatrist Who Picked Me Because She's Smart and Rich, right? People who respond to your drivel aren't the same person because everyone reads your crap the same way.

You don't even know that this person has a nanny.

Do you have a point to make or did you just have a tough day?

[Anonymous]

No worship of money on my part, lol. Please resist your urge to pronounce someone's relationship with money, especially those people who you have never even meet. Perhaps you have an issue with people who are in fact wealthy?
The point here is that they typically can afford more, and better, than those who are not wealthy. It so happens that wealthier families can afford to hire those higher priced nannies if desired.

You've been bested, over and over, by posters smarter than yourself.

Hush. Really. You have gone way over the line in embarrassing yourself. I'm doing you a favor, child. Hush.

[Anonymous]

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You've been bested, over and over, by posters smarter than yourself.

Oh this x100000000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?"

No, there are many reasons the patients she treats need her services and it's possible that those reasons have nothing to do with their parents or their parent's money.

Secondly, just because a mother is physician who may know a thing or two about some of the qualities of happy and healthy adults doesn't mean she mean she has to pay a lot of money to get a good nanny.

Logic would instead indicate that a smart, wealthy person got that way by not overspending when they can get a quality product for less.

A physician must excel at science but that does not necessarily translate to being good with financial matters. I would not assume a wealthy physician is good with money, only that they are well-compensated for their work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?"

No, there are many reasons the patients she treats need her services and it's possible that those reasons have nothing to do with their parents or their parent's money.

Secondly, just because a mother is physician who may know a thing or two about some of the qualities of happy and healthy adults doesn't mean she mean she has to pay a lot of money to get a good nanny.

Logic would instead indicate that a smart, wealthy person got that way by not overspending when they can get a quality product for less.

A physician must excel at science but that does not necessarily translate to being good with financial matters. I would not assume a wealthy physician is good with money, only that they are well-compensated for their work.

My preference is to help the parents who truly want the best for their child, not parents who are looking for their next bargain nanny. To each his own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?"

No, there are many reasons the patients she treats need her services and it's possible that those reasons have nothing to do with their parents or their parent's money.

Secondly, just because a mother is physician who may know a thing or two about some of the qualities of happy and healthy adults doesn't mean she mean she has to pay a lot of money to get a good nanny.

Logic would instead indicate that a smart, wealthy person got that way by not overspending when they can get a quality product for less.

A physician must excel at science but that does not necessarily translate to being good with financial matters. I would not assume a wealthy physician is good with money, only that they are well-compensated for their work.

My preference is to help the parents who truly want the best for their child, not parents who are looking for their next bargain nanny. To each his own.

Yes. Clearly, out of arguments, so time for the slightly wounded haughtiness. If you disagree with me, you must be a bargain hunter. Did you borrow a book on personality disorders from your psychiatrist MB or something?

[Anonymous]

Remember? To each his own. In other words, you should do whatever you like, pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Indeed, physicians are not gods, thank you. However, it stands to reason that if a wealthy mother happens to be a pediatric psychiatrist, she knows a thing or two about how children grow into healthy and happy adults, as opposed to the patients she treats everyday.
Agreed?"

No, there are many reasons the patients she treats need her services and it's possible that those reasons have nothing to do with their parents or their parent's money.

Secondly, just because a mother is physician who may know a thing or two about some of the qualities of happy and healthy adults doesn't mean she mean she has to pay a lot of money to get a good nanny.

Logic would instead indicate that a smart, wealthy person got that way by not overspending when they can get a quality product for less.

A physician must excel at science but that does not necessarily translate to being good with financial matters. I would not assume a wealthy physician is good with money, only that they are well-compensated for their work.

My preference is to help the parents who truly want the best for their child, not parents who are looking for their next bargain nanny. To each his own.

Yes. Clearly, out of arguments, so time for the slightly wounded haughtiness. If you disagree with me, you must be a bargain hunter. Did you borrow a book on personality disorders from your psychiatrist MB or something?

I don't think this particular poster needs to borrow any books on personality disorders. She's one of the classic case studies on which they were written. Seriously, I had no idea nutjobs like her really existed. It's been eye opening.