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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see parents often desperately searching for a similarly aged baby. Why? Do parents ever wish they had twins? I see twin parents of babies wanting support because of the exhausting work of two babies at once.

Why not appreciate the benefits of having an older child with a younger child? [/quote]

Because in a nanny share it's helpful for everyone if the kids are on the same schedule and doing the same things. A mom with two different aged kids can make a judgement call about interrupting a baby's nap to bring the toddler to music class or keeping a toddler indoors all day if a baby is having sleeping trouble, but a nanny in that situation is being asked to put one kid's needs above the other- and that's pitting one family's kids against another family's kid. It's easier for the nanny and both families if the kids are at the same place in their development.[/quote]
I hate to say you sound like a parent who hasn't studied child development or ever provided the full-time care of two unrelated little children of the same age. And I'm also a parent.

Btw, nannies make judgment calls all day, otherwise she isn't a nanny.[/quote]

Of course she does, but one family isn't going to be happy if their kid is woken up from their nap because of the needs of the other one etc on a regular basis. That's the nature of humans. Parents want the focus to be on meeting their own kids' needs- if the nanny has two kids from the same family, you don't get the tension. When you have two kids from different families, that's when there can be issues.[/quote]
An intelligent nanny will not regularly wake up one child because of another child, regardless of any parent insecurities. Why would she?[/quote]

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