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    Anonymous wrote:MB here. I dont want the TV on during playtime or with the kids at all. If the kids are asleep -I have no problem with my nanny relaxing a bit and watching TV.

[b]I think you're mistaking this thread for one where MBs were asked how they felt about it. No one here did.[/b]

I don't watch any tv at either of my main jobs unless I'm working a date night. Then I'll watch on their Apple TV or from Netflix from as soon as the little one is asleep until the parents come home. No children's programming of any kind during the days either. Maybe half a dozen times when I've arrived and the tv has been on to some morning news show, I've left in on for 15-20 minutes after MB left.

However, I have one family that uses me as a sitter and they are my absolute favorite family ever in over 15 years of babysitting, plus 5 years of nannying, and they are very liberal with the tv. I love going there because 95% of the time, the tv goes off as soon as I get there - we usually play Clue, or charades, or some other activity concocted by the 7YO (18MO, 4YO, &YO boys). Occasionally we will play a game on the Wii - fencing, bowling, boxing and just once they watched one episode of Spongebob. But just the fact that I don't feel at all judged by the parents no matter what we end up doing, that they are just so laid back with me and with the kids and with each other, and they understand that television is an important tool of communication in our time and place and don't demonize it, it just makes it that much more fun just playing with the kids. I actually appreciate them so much I charge $2/hr less off my regular rate, too, just so I know I have the chance of going back more often. The key here being first, they don't expect me to run the house any differently than they do and they watch tv often. And second, the kids are awesome anyway - advanced readers (4YO listens and 7YO and I spend an hour reading chapter books aloud before bed), imaginative, generous and kind to one another and never aggressive or mean-spirited, articulate, polite kids. It's really made me question my own aversion to exposing kids to tv. [/quote]

I would never hire someone so rude to watch my kids.[/quote]

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