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[quote=Anonymous]PP I'm a different poster but I can give you an example.

I babysit for a nice family, two children 5 and 7. They have tried to poach me as their nanny for over three years and I have always declined. I like them, I like their kids, so it should be a good fit right? No. They are obsessively worried about everything, they have the strangest rules that I can't even predict (last time I babysat the older one was reading Little House on the Prairie as his bedtime book and I read him a few chapters - only when his parents got home did they tell me to skip over words like "gun" - why are you reading him a frontiers book if we can't talk about the guns they carried?) and can't seem to learn after years of knowing them. They aren't allowed to run, for example, unless they are on grass. Yeah try enforcing that every day with two active boys! Every behavioral thing, like when the 4yo was in a phase of threatening to cut people's body parts off with scissors ("I'm going to chop your hair!") meant an hour+ discussion about whether he was "normal" or not and how we should approach it. Language has to be Waldorf specific, so rather than "let's put the toys away" it had to be "the toys are going to rest now." That's a handful of approximately 800,000 quirks I had to navigate as a sitter. No way could I have been their nanny!![/quote]

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