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[quote=Anonymous]I am surprised at the reactions!! You guys act as if two preschoolers are going to be ruined for life and get addicted to hot Cheetos when they're older because their nanny ate them. I completely understand wanting kids to eat healthy, be active, etc but there's no need to take it too far (speaking broadly now). It's one thing if you want to control how you and your young kids eat, but you cannot control what a grown woman eats. Period. Especially if what she's eating is NOT all that bad in the first place! (yes, "bad" is subjective, but I'm talking like, she's not sitting down to eat only hoho's and a whole BAG of Cheetos in a sitting. It's a sandwich or crackers and cheese with some chips "aka hot Cheetos [no worse than ruffles, imo]" on the side. Get a grip.)

Anyway, I still get that some people are super into being ultra-health conscious. Still doesn't mean those people can dictate what someone else eats. Even IF that someone is your nanny, yes. To the PP who made the comparison to smoking-well, all i can say is, I feel sorry for your neuroticism if you really think that's the same thing. (btw, taking a smoke break once a day "would" cause harm to the kids--secondhand smoke. What comparable "harm" is there in this situation??) Children are smarter than what we give them credit for. Even 3-4 yr olds understand that people eat different things, and "mommy wants them to grow up as healthy and strong as they can be" so that's why they eat gros- I mean, healthy, food. ;)

If the MB wants to fire her nanny over this, as another PP suggested, by all means, she has the right to. If this is an essential trait of what she wants in a nanny, then she is certainly able to try again in the hopes of finding a better fit. However, there is going to be some give and take. A nanny can be a superior nanny (and I'm not saying that the OP is, necessarily), but she will never be you, no one is exactly alike. If you are trying to find perfection, good luck trying to find that. [/quote]

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