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[quote=Anonymous]I am a nanny for two families.  My Monday, Wednesday and sometimes Saturday family moved last summer to a wealthy neighborhood in a gated community.  The kids are 4 and 7.

Yesterday the kids and I were bike riding and walking around their neighborhood.  I noticed another kid outside so I said to the kids, "Let's go say hi and introduce ourselves."  The kid was assembling a soccer net in their driveway.  My charges thought it was really weird to just walk up to someone and say hi.  I did it anyway.  The mom came outside, we chatted a few minutes.  Turns out the kid was in 5th grade, so really too old for my charges to play with.  I didn't realize how much older he was since he was sitting on the the driveway at the time I saw him.  Anyway, we chatted a few minutes, then we went on our way.

My 7 year old charge was astounded that I was so bold as to just walk up and  say hi.  Turns out my 7 year old charge has seen another girl who looks about the same age as her in the neighborhood and has wanted to get to know her.  So we went to that house, but they weren't outside.  We knocked on the door but they weren't home.

I am in my late 50's.  I told my charge that back when I was a kid, all the moms stayed home, and therefore all the kids stayed home after school too.  And when I was growing up, the kids would just knock on doors in the neighborhood asking if they had any kids to play with.  My charge thought that was so weird.

After I got home last night, I was telling my husband out it.  He said I was inappropriate.  He said wealthy families don't actually interact with the neighbors.  He said I was teaching the kids to be "middle class."

By the way, I have been with this family for almost 3 years.  There have been many times when I have encountered similar situations while working for them and felt like  I don't know how to "do" upper class lifestyle stuff.

Was I inappropriate?  Do wealthy people not interact with their neighbors?   
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