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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you so against feeling like the help when that's exactly what you are? Some of you nannies are in extreme denial. No one's forcing you to be in this line of work. [/quote]

I have no problem being treated like a nanny, I am one. When someone says "the help" they mean it in the old school traditional way when rich white families hired minority women to care for their homes and children. That might be exactly what a nanny does, but certain attitudes and behaviors are no longer acceptable, and I don't have to tolerate them. For example, I call my bosses by their first names. There was a time when that wouldn't have been acceptable. I also eat at their table, using their dishes, with them at shared meal times. I know crazy right? There was a time in our country's not so distant futre where that would have been crazy. I take issue with being treated like a second class citizen, ignored or talked over/down to and expected to be invisible, otherwise known as being treated like "the help". I can completely understand how being ignored while simultaneously being handed a strangers child to watch while the moms gab and snack can make OP feel delegated to the position of "the help". It may not be their intention, but it is uncomfortable and degrading, and unless and until you experience it you will not understand. [/quote]

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