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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, we all want Alice, but no one here can find that dear sweet lady who does it all, -with a smile![/quote]

There is a whole range of providers between the warm-body, DCUM, nanny-princess types and Alice.  Everyone I know, including myself, who has kept a nanny for more than a year or two has found someone who goes well beyond basic child-minding and doesn't trumpet self-made rules about what nannies do and don't do.  The new parents who ended up with someone who did nothing of value while the kids napped all canned the nanny after a year or two, sometimes lying about plans to put the children in daycare or have the mother SAHM.[/quote]
Some parents (not you), feel that excellent childcare is something of "value". Obviously, they are the ones who respect childcare as a "real" job. You, on the other hand, seem to see your child unworthy of the full attention of a professional. Now, before you throw another toddler temper tantrum, that doesn't mean nanny "can't" do anything else.

It does mean, that I as an adult woman, shall determine what else I shall do. Now, again, before you get bent out of shape, that's just how I operate. You'd be wasting your money on a professional, so don't bother. You're the type who wants a "nanny" to just obey your random orders.

Btw, you do know, that's not a nanny, don't you?[/quote]

How exactly does your refusal to take direction from an employer make you a professional?  How exactly is sitting on the couch for five hours a day providing "excellent childcare" or utilizing the "full attention of a professional?"

I expect my nanny to provide excellent childcare.  I expect her to be a professional who gives her full attention to my children.  I expect her to take direction from me in addition to using her own judgment where I have not specified my preferences.  My children are worthy of all this and more.

I also expect my nanny to take an hour or so break and use the rest of her downtime to assist with household and child-related chores so that I too can provide excellent childcare when I'm home, as opposed to doing a million chores while the kids entertain themselves so the nanny can enjoy her five hours of couch-sitting each day.  Being a professional nanny and being a diligent worker are not mutually exclusive.[/quote]

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