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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the thing: employers think that nannies accomplish more during the day and get better behavior from the kids because we don't have the added stress that they do of trying to run a household, and because the children love them more and therefore save their bad behavior for their parents.  Those things are true, but in my experience they only account for maybe 25% of the difference.  The bigger component of the difference between what I accomplish and how your kids behave for me is simply that I have a skill set that I have mastered.  I have gone out of my way to gain information and experience about child development and discipline and I apply those things in every encounter with your kids. I know more about it than you do and I don't sometimes decide that I'm too tired to actually deal with the discipline problem and just given I give them the best possible discipline every time. That means that over time they get out of the habit of even trying to push the boundaries with me.  I also have the necessary skill set to run a house. I have been in nanny positions where I did all the grocery shopping, all the cooking, and kept the kids laundry done and the kids play spaces in order during the day.  I did all this by myself. You have two adults on the weekends with the same number of children and while you may have more tasks, there are two of you to tackle everything. Juggling a household and general household management is a skill set. It is not something that just anyone can do.

The reason that nannies can be so critical of parents is that so often parents seem to think that they could in fact do our jobs just as well as we do, but they simply choose to work out of the home instead. The reality is that you could not do my job. You would suck at it and fail every day. Please acknowledge my skill set, instead of saying that you could do my job perfectly...if you weren't just "too busy on the weekends."[/quote]

Hate to break it to you hun, but nothing you do is hard or tricky, a parent who wasn't out earning a real living could EASILY do your job. The sooner you learn that the sooner you will be happy.[/quote]

So stay home, Hun, and raise your own children.  [/quote]

I don't need to sit home with my kids every day. I can afford to pay someone to do that and change their diapers and fold their clothes. I work so I can give them more than that, so we can all travel around the world, have experiences others can't, live a certain lifestyle, etc.[/quote]

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