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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve found that many parents who’ve employed nannies since day 1 tend to lack confidence in their ability to perform certain parenting tasks.

I’ve started most of my nanny positions with first time parents  when my charges were under 6 weeks old.  Many many many of these families don’t believe it’s possible to perform tasks parents without nannies do daily.

My last three families have been very bad about this.  Neither parent believes they can take any of their children out of the houses by themselves.  They don’t believe it’s possinle to get ready for work and watch their children at the same time.  They don’t think it’s possible to cook or clean when in charge of their own children.

Of course, it’s much easier to do these tasks with help, but they are possible.  It’s harder and a pain, but doable.  [b]My current set of parents don’t think it’s possible to bathe their infant alone.  [/b]

Now I’ve had some parents who could do it all, and often better than I can.  But it seems like nannies become crutches for a lot of people.[/quote]

I have never had employers as fearful as you have described but I did have the bolded with one of my employers.  It took both of them to bathe the baby so they assumed I couldn't do it alone.  I showed them once how I did it and that was that - I bathed the baby alone before they got home from work every day after that.

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