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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, we all want Alice, but no one here can find that dear sweet lady who does it all, -with a smile![/quote]

There is a whole range of providers between the warm-body, DCUM, nanny-princess types and Alice.  Everyone I know, including myself, who has kept a nanny for more than a year or two has found someone who goes well beyond basic child-minding and doesn't trumpet self-made rules about what nannies do and don't do.  The new parents who ended up with someone who did nothing of value while the kids napped all canned the nanny after a year or two, sometimes lying about plans to put the children in daycare or have the mother SAHM.[/quote]
Some parents (not you), feel that excellent childcare is something of "value". Obviously, they are the ones who respect childcare as a "real" job. You, on the other hand, seem to see your child unworthy of the full attention of a professional. Now, before you throw another toddler temper tantrum, that doesn't mean nanny "can't" do anything else.

It does mean, that I as an adult woman, shall determine what else I shall do. Now, again, before you get bent out of shape, that's just how I operate. You'd be wasting your money on a professional, so don't bother. You're the type who wants a "nanny" to just obey your random orders.

Btw, you do know, that's not a nanny, don't you?[/quote]
No adult person, including the POTUS, determines what they do on someone else's time and dime.  You may have ideas about what you'd like to do, but if your employer disagrees, you are not a match.  It's not because they've never dealt with a professional nanny before, it's not because they don't respect childcare, it's because you don't have a meeting of the minds. You aren't the maker of rules in nanny kingdom, you're just one service provider on a very plentiful market.  There may very well be distinctions between nannies and non-nannies, but not honoring parental rules isn't one of them.[/quote]

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