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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up with a full time sitter who had been my mother's teaching colleague prior to leaving the field in order to stay home with her kids.  She took care of her own children, one of whom was in school all day, along with my brother and I at her home.  She was fabulous, largely because she had so much teaching experience that she did it instinctively and constantly, through a zillion little seemingly unimportant moments.  You will be very marketable, OP.[/quote]

Funny how you refer to this teacher as a "full-time sitter."[/quote]
Even more funny how most of you don't know what a nanny is.[/quote]

The only difference between a full time sitter and a nanny is semantic.  Nannies love to think that they are somehow in a class above sitters, but there is absolutely no rational basis for that delusion.  In this particular case, the care provider called herself a sitter and so did we, despite her possession of a master's in education and many years of teaching and child-raising experience.  Why?  It may have been a function of the times. It may have been a function of locality.  It may be that she equated the term nanny with baby care and she was a professional, licensed educator whose charges were all in preschool and older.  Bottom line is that her title had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of care she provided.[/quote]

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