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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, if you're looking for outdoor sports, board games, etc - yes, of course, a woman is capable of doing this with teen boys, but I've never seen a female nanny do it. [/quote]

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You are looking for the wrong women then, PP. I had charges who were 8 and 11, we played outside every day, all day...basketball, softball, building forts, going for hikes, science projects, going to museums, art projects, water sports in the summer...I was never at a loss for activities and the boys were never sitting around saying they were bored.

The issue here is not that your nanny is a woman and not a man, OP, just that she isn't figuring out what kid of activities your son likes to be engaged in. At 11 he should be able to tell her if he wants to hang out together or have some time on his own, but your nanny needs to be available and ready with ideas when the time comes that he DOES want her around.

You clearly have the wrong nanny. Time to find a new one, man or woman![/quote]

Of course there are active nannies, but when we switched to male APs, the difference was striking. The physicality with the boys was nothing I've seen out of the most active female.

This summer my AP was at an mountain bike park weekly doing straight downhill mountain biking with my boys. He's a hockey player and taught them to ice skate. I got them roller blades as his request and they all play street hockey for hours on end. He has a relentless passion for getting on the floor and wrestling. The difference is this is not "work" for him. This is what he enjoys doing. On his free time he'll come upstairs and see who want to play street hockey with him and in no time there is a mob of children in front of our house. My boys are strongr and more athletic because of it.

Again women are active, but the difference is so stark. [/quote]

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