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[quote=Anonymous]Last year, my family returned from a long overseas assignment in West Africa with our first nanny, a kind woman who was our housekeeper there. She asked if she could be our nanny and we thought it was a great idea! And it mostly is. We pay her for 40 hours a week, but really only ask her to work ten or 15 -- being present from when the kids come home from school until one of the parents gets home from work, and making dinner. She also does some light housekeeping and occasional grocery shopping. The rest of the time, she's in her room, in the dark, watching YouTube or napping. That is literally all she does. We include her in family outings on weekends -- everything from ice skating to movies to plain old DC sight-seeing -- and she goes happily enough, but then it's straight back into her room. We've asked if she'd like to take classes or find a church; no thanks. YouTube in the dark. On the few occasions when we've come home unexpectedly in the middle of the day, that's also what she's doing -- it's not like she has a secret fun life when we're gone. She's had a health checkup and there's apparently nothing wrong physically. She's always been very quiet, and my attempts to make conversation fall very flat. She's about to return to her home country for a long vacation, then come back to nanny for us in the summer, when she'll truly be needed because the kids won't have school. I had thought that maybe she's overwhelmingly homesick, but it turns out that she doesn't [i]want[/i] to leave for vacation! She'd rather... sit in the dark and watch YouTube. Or nap. My husband thinks I'm overthinking this, but -- it's strange, right?[/quote]
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