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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, spend a week in your house with your baby. Dont meet anyone for lunch and dont run any errands. You cannot do any personal house stuff either, pretend you are your nanny. You can only do "educational and stimulating" things with your child. 
Let us know how fun it is.
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It's a job.  It doesn't have to be fun.

I am a nanny who has take. Kids with me on errands many times--for the family.  I think it's beneficial for the kids to practice going on errands during the day, because it is a low-pressure situation.  If they have a fit and we have to leave the grocery store to make a disciplinary point, I can do that, because I can try again tomorrow.  I also think a well-planned outing can be good for kids of any age (meaning it's timed well in their day and I'm prepared to wngage them with things like "grocery lists" made of pictures and initial letters of some of their favorite foods).  The problem with personal errands is that it is too easy for the nanny to slip into a mode where she is there to get her stuff done and is just dragging the kids along.

My point is that it is hardly unreasonable to expect the kids to be the number one priority, since their care and education is what she is being paid for.[/quote]

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