Anonymous wrote:Do you want the person to play, teach, love and have an impact on your child's life or are you looking for someone who might play with them, and is mainly there to make sure your child stays alive? If it's the first then you want a nanny if it's the latter you want a sitter

This is complete nonsense. A good sitter plays with her charges and teaches them. If she sits for them often, she has an impact on their lives. There are good sitters and bad sitters, good nannies and bad nannies.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you want the person to play, teach, love and have an impact on your child's life or are you looking for someone who might play with them, and is mainly there to make sure your child stays alive? If it's the first then you want a nanny if it's the latter you want a sitter

Our sitter has the same values as the description of a nanny in your post. As a PP said, a nanny has a scheduled day/time versus a sitter who days aren't sporadic.

I'm a college student working one or two days a week watching your kids but when I "grow up", I want to be something other than a childcare provider or teacher - I am a babysitter. My friend got her bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education and works full time for a family with two small children - she is a nanny. She teaches them while I watch them.

Do you want the person to play, teach, love and have an impact on your child's life or are you looking for someone who might play with them, and is mainly there to make sure your child stays alive? If it's the first then you want a nanny if it's the latter you want a sitter

I would use the term nanny because it is a set schedule. In my opinion a babysitter is someone who you have watch your children on a Saturday night . This can be a number of sitters in the area. But a nanny is that 1 scheduled person who shows up for her scheduled time. It's not like you have to call and ask her every time because she is scheduled and you depend on her to show up.

I am the OP, and it wasn't a troll question. I am placing an ad and trying to figure out whether to call the person a nanny or babysitter in my ad on care.com. Didn't mean to offend anyone.

Anonymous wrote:NP here. Actually, I think the OP's question is a troll question.

When you are with the nanny, you call her by her name. When you are referring to her to your coworkers....who cares? The nanny isn't going to know and your coworkers couldn't care less.

I agree that this is a troll post but there most certainly ARE instances when you need to refer to someone by their title even when they are there. Obviously if I'm just talking to her I don't say "nanny." I use her name. But when she started working for us and I took her with me to DCs school to show her where it was etc I introduced her to the teachers. I said, "This is DCs nanny, Jane, she will be picking up DC from school sometimes." I can think of at least a handful of times I've introduced her like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, there is no difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Its all ego and self pretense. I would go with calling her a nanny to humor her ego.

You probably think your kid's teacher is a babysitter to. You're pathetic. I feel so sorry for your poor child.

+1. My heart breaks for this posters child/children.

Yeah, maybe PP is right, in that the pathetic mb poster is also the OP troll.

NP here. Actually, I think the OP's question is a troll question.

When you are with the nanny, you call her by her name. When you are referring to her to your coworkers....who cares? The nanny isn't going to know and your coworkers couldn't care less.