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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My current job I see the kids more than the parents do COMBINED.  Parents are divorced so they each get a few weeknights and one weekend of custody each week.  I am with the kids from when they wake until when they sleep 5 days a week.  Parents see them maybe 2 hours each total during the week, then they each have one 13-hour weekend day.   I am the person teaching these kids how to connect and have a relationship with another human being. How to love and how to be loved. I talked them to walk, taught them to speak, and taught them basic life skills from potty training to shaking someone’s hand and looking them in the eye. But I am supposed to do all of that while constantly keeping in the back of my mind that I am 100% disposable and could be tossed out on my ear tomorrow if I said or did the wrong thing, or if one of the parents just decided they don’t like the look on my face.   Regardless of how well-intentioned a given family is, that is the truth about being a nanny. When we talk about the imbalance of power, we are not talking about a paycheck. We are talking about the fact that we love your children exactly as much as you do, and frankly in some cases more, but you could rip this child from me so easily, without even a backward glance. [/quote]

So true.  And so sad. [/quote]

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