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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
11:21, it isn't the practice at ANY job for an employee to do light housekeeping, other than domestic employees. I can bring my lunch, have it delivered or go out to restaurant for lunch. Nannies are not free to do this. Comparing nannies to ANY other job is apples and oranges. No matter how you try to justify it, you are still cheap.

This logic is so bizarre to me. Your nanny is confined to your house during her entire shift and is unable to pack a lunch or have something delivered? Really? If this is the case, there is something wrong with one of you (you for forbidding her from leaving the house or her for not being a capable enough adult to plan her meals ahead).[/quote]

Exactly. I like to think my child's caregiver is smart enough to plan and pay for her own meals like the rest of the adult world.

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It has nothing to do with my nanny being capable or smart enough, of course she is!!! I think it is just part of being with my family and common courtesy to have my nanny be at home with my children and provide her food. I would never think twice about it! I think we need to agree to disagree. Among my friends and acquaintances who have nannies, we have talked about it and it is the norm to invite our nannies to help themselves to any food in the house just as a family member would. I completely disagree with your stance and that is ok, but you cannot say your logic is the norm, because I truly do not believe it is and you have no basis to back that statement. I truly believe the norm is providing food for the nanny while she is in your home during meal hours. It's just the nature of that job. I love our nanny like family and it would be very weird any different!![/quote]

I agree that we'll have to agree to disagree (I'm not the only one posting though, and I assume neither are you, so I can't speak for others).  I never once said that MY  "logic is the norm" though, and even said that there is no norm, which is why MBs and nannies need to talk about this stuff.

I find the rest of your assertions pretty laughable in their lack of self-awareness.  Ever heard the statement "the plural of anecdote is not data"?  Among MY friends and acquaintances with nannies, all of their nannies bring their own lunch and are free to have a snack here and there or eat what the kids are having.  I have never heard of an expectation that a live-out nanny would add food to your grocery list until I read this board.  So who's "normal" is right - yours or mine?  Obviously neither - just as you assert that I have no basis for what I think is normal, YOU similarly have no basis to back your statement that you "truly believe the norm is providing food for the nanny while she is in your home during meal hours."   Which is, again, why I have repeatedly said there is obviously no normal.  [/quote]

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