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[quote=Anonymous][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]

But you probably DO get some kind of lunch break during your day. It would be very hypocritical of you not allow your nanny any down time during her work day. [/quote]

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