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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't trust who you're leaving your child with, shame on you. How can a mother take that kind of risk with her own child?? I just don't understand that kind of mentality. [/quote]

I'm so tired of hearing this same thing, usually by women who choose to stay home with their children.  If that is your choice I think that's great.  But you have no right to judge what someone else does.

You obviously haven't read the previous posts all that well either.  NO ONE has said they are choosing some random person off the street that they don't trust.  Those of us using cameras are still doing all the background checks and leg work to make sure we are picking someone we think is trust worthy.  But unless you have a magic crystal ball how does anyone know who they can trust completely?  And how does it hurt in ANY way to have a little backup.

Even though this has been said a thousand times apparently some people aren't getting it.  The point of the cameras is NOT because I don't trust my nannies to not abuse my kids.  It's because I don't know them well enough to know if they are good with MY kids.  They may have been great with someone else's kids but just don't click with mine.  If the kids are too little to tell us how do we know?  Most people are on their best behavior when their boss is around but who knows how they are when we aren't there.

I KNOW my kids were safe with every nanny we ever had but I'm not paying someone just to keep them safe.  I want to know they are being well cared for and also having fun with someone who genuinely likes them and enjoys taking care of them.

I tell the nannies before they start working that we have cameras, I don't think it's fair to keep them a secret.  I only really use them at the beginning to make sure they are good with my kids and then I stop looking at them.  No nanny has ever had a problem with them and they usually tell me they've worked for lots of people with cameras before.

So now that you've read my post, give me one good reason why I shouldn't have cameras.[/quote]

How about the fact that you're so defensive over a comment made by an anonymous stranger, and it shows how deep down you're not truly comfortable with the real reason you use the cameras. I don't know what that reason is, but you do, and you aren't comfortable with it clearly. [/quote]

No I'm actually just really tired of how judgemental people are on here and how quick they are to put down other people. I think it's because they can hide behind the anonymity of this forum. It's fine to have different opinions but the way they are expressed are often very unkind. It's not specific to this thread but often times someone innocently asks a question because they honestly want advice and some others will immediately jump on them and sometimes pretty viciously. I think most people on here have good intentions as parents so maybe we should all try to be a little more open minded about how others do things, even if it's different than the way we would.  [/quote]

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