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[Post New]02/27/2013 16:11
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I do think that anyone, ok, almost anyone should be able to catch a baby. As long as they don't interfere with the natural birthing process.
See how easy it is to simplify someone else's job. Anyone can play your game.


[Post New]02/27/2013 16:23
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Anonymous
Alright, you win. It's not that you don't want to do housework, it's that you lack the skills and talent. Better?
[Post New]02/27/2013 16:27
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Nanny care is commonly held to a higher standard than parent care, for good reason. She's getting paid to perform her professional duty, which is child care, not housekeeping. That's the point.

This is the issue here.
[Post New]02/27/2013 19:46
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Anonymous
Parenting is easy when you get paid to do it, difficult and draining when you don't.
[Post New]02/27/2013 20:37
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Parenting is easy when you get paid to do it, difficult and draining when you don't.

What? No work with children is easy, paid or unpaid. It's actually the hardest work there is. Why do you think no one (almost) wants to do it? Many parents would rather do whatever it takes, not to do the work themselves.
[Post New]02/27/2013 23:08
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Anonymous
Most women barely break even, when they calculate all the associated costs with taking that downtown job. Clothes, shoes, meals out, car and gas, nanny salary or day care fees, not to mention the insane stress of running around like a mad woman.
But maybe it's all worth it, even if hubby needs to financially supplement your "successful" life-style.
And we haven't even asked what it is, that you think your children are getting out of all the recklessness.
[Post New]02/27/2013 23:42
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Anonymous
No one is paid to parent. Childcare is not parenting.
[Post New]02/28/2013 05:28
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:No one is paid to parent. Childcare is not parenting.

Parent vs. primary caregiver is often blurred, especially when the paret routinely sees the child for only 15 minutes a day, if that.


Parent has legal custody. Hired caregiver does not. Parent is normally long-term. Hired primary caregiver is "here today, gone tomorrow", resulting from frequent MB firing ("caregiver eating too much our junk food", etc., etc.) and nanny quitting (MB making her be the housekeeper, etc.).
[Post New]03/01/2013 12:21
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Parenting is easy when you get paid to do it, difficult and draining when you don't.

Caring for kids is never easy.
[Post New]03/01/2013 21:48
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Anonymous
Caring for kids is always easy.
[Post New]03/02/2013 08:22
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nannydebsays

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Anonymous wrote:Caring for kids is always easy.


The way you do it may be easy. The way truly good nannies do it is actual hard work.
[Post New]03/02/2013 14:50
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Anonymous
PP you're referring to, nannydeb.

You have an excellent point. I stand corrected.
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