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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, this is the type of position I seek.  I don't want a run-of-the-mill family.  I like challenges, I like researching how best to help,  and I like proving to parents that I am willing to put in more time and energy to care for their children than they expected when I was hired.

Offhand, I can think of five different ways that would be easy to try to teach herself to self-soothe, but it depends on the child's personality as to which (if any of those) may work.[/quote]
You sound young and naive. 
You actually can't fix everything.
Believe me.[/quote]

Interesting.  You don't believe that it's worth helping the child?

By the way, I'm not interested in fixing everything.  I'm interested in unusual scenarios and children who need a different approach.  I find that parents I seek are looking for someone creative. [/quote]

Yes, you are very special and obviously a better nanny than any of the rest of us.   :roll:

Look, I’m not the other poster who responded to you, but I can tell you that solutions can only be found to problems that the parents a)  also consider to be a problem and b)  are willing to work on with you. The red flag here is not that the child will have to make this adjustment. It is that the child will have to make this adjustment and mom has had no advanced planning on how to facilitate that change. That tells me that Mom is not doing extended on-demand nursing as part of a choice about her family but because she personally doesn’t want to have to say no to her child and she is looking to outsource that to a nanny. That is not a philosophy of parenting, it is a failure to parent.  I can tell you right now that whatever strategies you use to teach self soothing are going to be an uphill battle when mom goes right back to all day nursing every single weekend. And if you imply that reinforcing self soothing techniques that you can’t replicate during the week is not best serving her child, mom will accuse you of not being good at your job and of judging her. But you go ahead and track down and take all of the jobs you want with parents who have opted out of as much of the parenting struggle as they can. I’m sure that you will never have any problems with that. Because you are so special. [/quote]

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