What's the most ridiculous thing you're been reprimanded for?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't call it "reprimanded," because they were cheerful about it, but both MB and DB chided me for NOT sitting their infant in front of the tv! At first I thought they were joking, but they were like "He loves to dance [in his excersaucer] to Barney!" and "Sesame Street is his favorite!" They honestly wanted me to make sure their baby didn't miss his tv shows.

Liar. No parent would do this.

Wow. First I get accused of being a terrible nanny, and now I'm a liar, too. I didn't know there were so many psychics here in the Nanny Forums!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't call it "reprimanded," because they were cheerful about it, but both MB and DB chided me for NOT sitting their infant in front of the tv! At first I thought they were joking, but they were like "He loves to dance [in his excersaucer] to Barney!" and "Sesame Street is his favorite!" They honestly wanted me to make sure their baby didn't miss his tv shows.

Liar. No parent would do this.

Wow. First I get accused of being a terrible nanny, and now I'm a liar, too. I didn't know there were so many psychics here in the Nanny Forums!

I knew it. Door number three:troll. More of them here than psychics so you should find lots of friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't call it "reprimanded," because they were cheerful about it, but both MB and DB chided me for NOT sitting their infant in front of the tv! At first I thought they were joking, but they were like "He loves to dance [in his excersaucer] to Barney!" and "Sesame Street is his favorite!" They honestly wanted me to make sure their baby didn't miss his tv shows.

Liar. No parent would do this.

Wow. First I get accused of being a terrible nanny, and now I'm a liar, too. I didn't know there were so many psychics here in the Nanny Forums!

I knew it. Door number three:troll. More of them here than psychics so you should find lots of friends.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't call it "reprimanded," because they were cheerful about it, but both MB and DB chided me for NOT sitting their infant in front of the tv! At first I thought they were joking, but they were like "He loves to dance [in his excersaucer] to Barney!" and "Sesame Street is his favorite!" They honestly wanted me to make sure their baby didn't miss his tv shows.

Liar. No parent would do this.

Wow. First I get accused of being a terrible nanny, and now I'm a liar, too. I didn't know there were so many psychics here in the Nanny Forums!

I knew it. Door number three:troll. More of them here than psychics so you should find lots of friends.

Huh?

Please refer back to 15:42 and all shall become clear to you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't call it "reprimanded," because they were cheerful about it, but both MB and DB chided me for NOT sitting their infant in front of the tv! At first I thought they were joking, but they were like "He loves to dance [in his excersaucer] to Barney!" and "Sesame Street is his favorite!" They honestly wanted me to make sure their baby didn't miss his tv shows.

Liar. No parent would do this.

Wow. First I get accused of being a terrible nanny, and now I'm a liar, too. I didn't know there were so many psychics here in the Nanny Forums!

I knew it. Door number three:troll. More of them here than psychics so you should find lots of friends.

Huh?

Please refer back to 15:42 and all shall become clear to you

Except the troll, liar, etc comment was referring to a different poster. You have egg on your face.

[Anonymous]

I was doing one task exactly as instructed when I began the job. I saw the DB every morning and most nights. One night, I got a text from the MB saying that every time I did this task (not an every day thing) that it drove DB crazy and to please find a new way to do it. O.o

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was doing one task exactly as instructed when I began the job. I saw the DB every morning and most nights. One night, I got a text from the MB saying that every time I did this task (not an every day thing) that it drove DB crazy and to please find a new way to do it. O.o

Oops, meant to say I'd been working for them for over a year when the text came!

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Anonymous wrote:I was once asked (so not really reprimanded) if I could please back the stroller into the apartment instead of rolling it in front first. I'm still not sure why.

It's actually easier to do this with a stroller/dolly/wheelchair and prevents the stroller from going over front first.

Why would a stroller go over front first when rolling into an apartment, but not when rolling anywhere else? I don't see people backing their strollers down the sidewalk or into or out of stores, so why apartments?

Is there a threshhold to go over? I assumed there was. If not, it doesn't matter.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't call it "reprimanded," because they were cheerful about it, but both MB and DB chided me for NOT sitting their infant in front of the tv! At first I thought they were joking, but they were like "He loves to dance [in his excersaucer] to Barney!" and "Sesame Street is his favorite!" They honestly wanted me to make sure their baby didn't miss his tv shows.

Liar. No parent would do this.

Wow. First I get accused of being a terrible nanny, and now I'm a liar, too. I didn't know there were so many psychics here in the Nanny Forums!

I knew it. Door number three:troll. More of them here than psychics so you should find lots of friends.

Huh?

Please refer back to 15:42 and all shall become clear to you

Except the troll, liar, etc comment was referring to a different poster. You have egg on your face.

Huh?

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Anonymous wrote:I was once corrected for using 2 or 3 sheets of papers towels to dry my hands instead of one.

With a different family I was told I was cutting a banana wrong!

I would say something about the paper towel use too - we have dish towels specifically for drying clean hands.

I would have a fit for using dish towels. They are dirty the first time someone dries their hands. I only use paper towels, Bounty, in my house.

You are an idiot. You're telling me by drying my freshly washed hands, I'm dirtying a dish towel?

PP isn't an idiot as it depends what your definition of "dirty" is. Yes, every time you dry your skin with a towel you leave skin cells behind to decay. Those decaying cells are transmitted to the next person who uses the towel. Not to mention that if you do not wash your hands correctly (lathering for 30 seconds) you can transmit cold and flu viruses to the next person who uses the same towel as well as anything collected under your nails (including fecal matter).

I would rather my nanny, family members, children all use paper towel after washing their hands as well.

Congrats on killing our planet.

[Anonymous]

One time I got in trouble for wearing shorts (they weren't at all revealing) and had to wear leggings to work the whole summer. Same lady told me not to bring lunch and I could eat whatever I liked from the kitchen. I didn't eat much and mostly still brought my lunch well one day I guess she had a bad day and i occasionally had a peanut butter sandwich, until she said 'do NOT eat the organic peanut butter that is for my CHILDREN NOT YOU. It is too expensive to keep buying it'
Anyway I quit haha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One time I got in trouble for wearing shorts (they weren't at all revealing) and had to wear leggings to work the whole summer. Same lady told me not to bring lunch and I could eat whatever I liked from the kitchen. I didn't eat much and mostly still brought my lunch well one day I guess she had a bad day and i occasionally had a peanut butter sandwich, until she said 'do NOT eat the organic peanut butter that is for my CHILDREN NOT YOU. It is too expensive to keep buying it'
Anyway I quit haha

Come on now, that is a duh. Why would you think the organic stuff is for you. Chips and crap like that you may help yourself too (as long as it's a small serving) but not their good things.

Was that really the first time you had ever been offered food at someones home??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One time I got in trouble for wearing shorts (they weren't at all revealing) and had to wear leggings to work the whole summer. Same lady told me not to bring lunch and I could eat whatever I liked from the kitchen. I didn't eat much and mostly still brought my lunch well one day I guess she had a bad day and i occasionally had a peanut butter sandwich, until she said 'do NOT eat the organic peanut butter that is for my CHILDREN NOT YOU. It is too expensive to keep buying it'
Anyway I quit haha

Come on now, that is a duh. Why would you think the organic stuff is for you. Chips and crap like that you may help yourself too (as long as it's a small serving) but not their good things.

Was that really the first time you had ever been offered food at someones home??

You're reaching. PP clearly said she was told not to bring lunch. Any reasonable person would assume that freed up peanut butter sandwiches for consumption; we aren't talking steaks or $9 frozen meals here.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a stupid troll thread.

[Anonymous]

I've had the basics; using too many diapers, wipes, laundry detergent.... I don't think it's ridiculous, just obnoxious. I know how many things we go through a week because I'm the one using them.

Did have a parent say they only wanted the child's diaper changed if he had a BM or it was so heavy with urine it leaked. I left that position very quickly.


I had a parent flip out that their 2-year-old was bitten at daycare. They went on and on and said they'd sue the daycare for negligence. I held my tongue for as long as I could, but eventually told them they were in for a long hall if that was their attitude and that they might as well wrap her in a plastic bubble.

The parents go nuts because a toddler bit their child, saying they wanted to contact the child's parents. Yet not a week before the father spanked the child's bare bottom so hard it left a handprint for several days.

This and the other situations described are purely ridiculous! Either these parents were already stingy, penny pinchers, or it's just dawned on them how expensive babies and children are. Getting the baby's bottom clean; not subjecting the baby to negligence with infrequent changes and high probability of diaper rash/infection; paper towels are more hygienic, etc. are all the bottom line for proper--and loving parenting--childcare. It's best to leave these M/DBs alone. I do feel sorry for the babes/children.