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[quote=Anonymous]Today the mother of the kids across the street from my charges addressed that she is very unhappy with the way out outside play is going...

To give you some backround info, I am a nanny for a foreign family, they are minimalists. The kids In this circumstance are all under 4.

We play at least 3 times a week with this particular family. We go to their house, we go to them, we go to lunch and activities together etc. The kids are very close and the mom and I have become close because of this...

My bosses don't have a lot of outside toys for the kids. We have a few thing but not much.

The family we play with has an insane amount of toys for outside. So they invite us over frequently or we just end up playing together outside because of promiximity. I though this was going well until recently. Friends mom has started to voice concern because we don't have many toys to share and she feels her kids aren't getting to play with their toys. Fine. I get it. But being the nanny, I can do absolutely zero things about it...

So today when playing she wanted her child to play with a certain toy that was a gift to him while my charge was on it. Totally fine. I get my charge off. Her kid wants nothing to do with new toy. Kid wants an old toy and wants my charge to keep playing. Friends mom is not okay with this and takes her now screaming child and tries to get them play with it again. More screaming. My charge is now onto something else. After she tried to get her kid to play with it and failed again she tells my charge to play with it - totally confusing my charge because thirty seconds ago this was not okay...

Friends mom tells me that they will not be inviting the kids over or letting them play together when their mom is home to try to show her she needs to buy more outside toys and continues venting to me about it... I feel bad but I also think the whole scenario was a little ridiculous. Her child didn't even want the toy.

I don't know, I guess this is more of a vent... I'm just really sad and disappointed. The kids love each other but that really tainted the way I feel about her and I'm also unsure if there's anything I can do or if I am in the wrong in someway..

Any opinions would be appreciated. Let me know if you need clarification, I'm writing from my phone.
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