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[quote=Anonymous]MB here, my child can't watch TV while my nanny is there, but I do let him watch TV when I get home.  That's because he gets 30 minutes of screen time a day, and I need those 30 minutes to take off the work clothes and start dinner.  I don't feel hypocritical about it at all.  Sure, I could give my nanny those 30 minutes, or split them evenly with her, but I'm the employer and I'm paying her to do what I ask, so we are not both equally entitled to those 30 minutes.  Not to sound like a dictator or an awful MB because my nanny is awesome, but it's just true.

And I don't let him watch because I'm tired (not sure why that is the assumption on this thread), not that I think it would be inappropriate if I just wanted to sit for 30 minutes, but I don't, and neither do most of the working moms I know when they get home from work.

Also agree with PP who said that we are not alternating shifts in the same role.  I can't put clients in front of the TV while I sit down at work for a break either (or any other equivalent shortcut).  So I don't think it is hypocritical for that reason as well - when I am acting as an employee, I have to do as asked even if I don't like it or think my boss is a big fat hypocrite.  Same thing.   [/quote]

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