Reply to I'm curious....

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "I'm curious...."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, find me a post where an MB said that she told her nanny not to touch her food under any circumstance.

Here's how I see it and I imagine many parents are similar. Our family is really busy. If I employ my nanny from say 8am to 6pm, I'm out of the house for a huge chunk of the day. I already have trouble keeping up with grocery shopping just for us. I eat out with relative frequency and sometimes there are days when I don't have much in the house at all. I have a nanny because it gives me and my kids some extra time and sanity. It is to make my life easier essentially.

So grocery shopping for my nanny, making sure she has something for lunch every day, making sure I have her favorite snacks every day. The other OP made it sound like a hot lunch needed to be available. All this adds up to NOT making my life easier. Indeed, adding additional stress. What if my nanny shows up for work without any food and I haven't had time to grocery shop??

She's welcome to eat whatever she finds, but you see, providing her food of choice takes it to a whole other level. And it does cost a not insignificant amount of money to feed someone 5 days a week for 9 hours.  You'd better believe that if I was providing that as a perk, it would be factored into her compensation somewhere or at the very least I would be expecting a higher quality of care than I would from a similarly paid nanny who I wasn't having to worry about feeding. [/quote]

It really isnt that hard and you are acting like a martyr.

If your nanny is in the house all day (or with your family) you can ask that she do some grocery shops for you. Now you don't have to have her pick up enough food for 3 months (a la costco), but she can get a few things.

That being said, the issue isn't that you don't have food in the house. The issue being debated is the scenario of a parent saying "We do not want you eating our food". I'm an MB, our nanny has full run of the kitchen and house! She can have anything in the fridge that she wants. If she wants a PB and J, go ahead. If she wants to eat frozen hot dogs, have at it. So on days that I have to go to the store, she still has run of the fridge/pantry, just not as many options. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics