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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Working for a stay at home mom who employed me for 40 hours a week and full time housekeeper 5 days a week. Lots of happy hour/tennis/unch dates for her, which is fine but hard for me to understand why she needed me in the first place other than not wanting to watch her kids. She would have her friends over for wine (at 3pm) and leave me to deal with all the kids. Also the dad was very entitled and thought he should be treated like a king. He wouldn't change diapers or stay at home alone with the kids. Hard to respect a family that had zero interest in their children but more so in their social life Or work. I know a lot of families are like this but it just was not a good fit for me. On top of 40 hours a week they would ask me to stay late with little or short notice at least 2x per week, usually unpaid. This was my first nanny job so have learned SO much!![/quote]

I think it's definitely difficult to work for a family that has totally different ideologies than you. I could never work for a family who decided to have children, but just wanted someone else to basically raise their kids even while they weren't working. I worked for a family for about a week who at the interview told me I would be watching one kid. Their rate was $10 an hour, which isn't bad for the area for one kid (not in DC). I accepted, and then during the first week of work I was babysitting 3/4 of their children! The five week old was with mom, but I had a 4 year old and 3 year old on top of the 18 month old which was the one we discussed me watching. The parents said I would "typically only be watching the 18 month old, but since the other two were home from school I could watch them too!" Like it was a treat, and they didn't offer to pay me any more! Then the dad would come downstairs while we were playing and be condescending towards me. He yelled at me for "allowing" his 4 year old son to dress up in his sister's princess costume and play with her doll house. The older kids were terrible too. I've never met kids worse than these-- called me stupid, told me I smelled, etc. Just stupid stuff, but I've honestly never had a kid who acted like that, and I've met some bad ones. Needless to say, I wasn't with that family past that week, and they were all so confused as to why I didn't want to continue the job. [/quote]

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