Reply to Asking nanny to report on how time is used

Forum Index » Employer Issues

Reply to "Asking nanny to report on how time is used"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MB here, I would not do it. Our DD goes to preschool two days a week or 3 hours.  I don't care what our nanny does frankly with that time. It is a 10 hour day; five days a week and our child is very active.  [/quote]

This.

OP you do not like this Hannah. You should probably find another.

In general, I am totally confused by people who are entirely willing to have a strained relationship with someone who cares for your children for many many hours per week. These are your children. Nannies and babysitters are not the same as someone who vacuums your house. They care for children!!! They are helping to raise your children. So I think you treat them differently and with more leeway than a housekeeper. First because caring for children is exhausting and some downtime during the day is reasonable. Second, I want the person who spends that much time with my kids to love it, them and me. Period. If the nanny is unhappy then it will show in the interactions with the kids. Actually it probably won't because nannies are professional and genuinely love kids despite their not-picking and frugal parents.

I am a parent of three who works in an industry where I have a lot of contact with nannies and working parents who use nannies. I have witnessed bad. A nies but boy do I see a lot of the attitudes throughout this thread in parents who treat nannies as no different than gardeners and maids. It's totally different because the people you love most hang in the balance. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics