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Anonymous wrote:She is not a nanny. I am so frustrated by this. As though this lady is a forecast of what other parents will have to deal with. I am usually on the side of MBs on this forum. But this? This is fear based garbage and sensationalist.

Exactly. Anytime the press thinks they can get away with the word "nanny" in their headlines, they've got guaranteed success.

So pathetic that they believe any warm body can be a nanny.

What do you think makes someone a nanny or not? If you care for kids on a schedule you are a nanny.

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Anonymous wrote:She is not a nanny. I am so frustrated by this. As though this lady is a forecast of what other parents will have to deal with. I am usually on the side of MBs on this forum. But this? This is fear based garbage and sensationalist.

Exactly. Anytime the press thinks they can get away with the word "nanny" in their headlines, they've got guaranteed success.

So pathetic that they believe any warm body can be a nanny.

Anonymous wrote:She is not a nanny. I am so frustrated by this. As though this lady is a forecast of what other parents will have to deal with. I am usually on the side of MBs on this forum. But this? This is fear based garbage and sensationalist.

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Anonymous wrote:No one cleans your house and sits your kids for a room. How can any parent be that stupid? That mother is a real bimbo, if I ever saw one.

Not to start trouble or anything, because I don't know this families arrangement with this woman, but I used to trade childcare for a room without salary back about 4 years ago. I used to live in my own house that I was trying to sell and I was caring for some kids part-time for about $200 a week (just mornings with a different family in the afternoons). One day a guy sent my realtor an offer for my house of full asking so I took it without having anything lined up. I asked the family if we could work out a live-in scenario and we did. They stopped paying me, I stayed in a room upstairs near the kids, I still did my normal morning routine with them and I also babysat very occasionally for them without any extra pay.

Could I have commanded more $ than the trade was worth if I had searched around? Maybe, but they were there to help when I needed it, I already knew and loved the family and the kids, and I felt safe living with them for 6-7 months until summer while I found a new house in a nearby town.

So, basically just wanted to point out that depending on the amount of childcare and housework I'm sure you could find a number of nannies that would consider such an arrangement. In my situation there was no stay at home parent, but in the article the MB said she is a stay at home mom, so there likely might not have been much too do at all.

If this elderly woman wasn't a crook and just couldn't work a 8-10 hour day, it might be beneficial for her to trade a place to stay for some minor help around a house. If she can't make enough to cover rent elsewhere on her own comfortably I don't see why this wouldn't be a good idea.

At least you were a nanny. She wasn't.

I don't see how that changes anything. Except for the housework aspect (and that really could mean anything, maybe she was only asked to vacuum once a week and wipe the kitchen countertops, nothing hard) if she worked similar hours as me (~8 a week) it might be a perfectly fair trade, housing for 8 hours of work.

You must be new around here.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one cleans your house and sits your kids for a room. How can any parent be that stupid? That mother is a real bimbo, if I ever saw one.

Not to start trouble or anything, because I don't know this families arrangement with this woman, but I used to trade childcare for a room without salary back about 4 years ago. I used to live in my own house that I was trying to sell and I was caring for some kids part-time for about $200 a week (just mornings with a different family in the afternoons). One day a guy sent my realtor an offer for my house of full asking so I took it without having anything lined up. I asked the family if we could work out a live-in scenario and we did. They stopped paying me, I stayed in a room upstairs near the kids, I still did my normal morning routine with them and I also babysat very occasionally for them without any extra pay.

Could I have commanded more $ than the trade was worth if I had searched around? Maybe, but they were there to help when I needed it, I already knew and loved the family and the kids, and I felt safe living with them for 6-7 months until summer while I found a new house in a nearby town.

So, basically just wanted to point out that depending on the amount of childcare and housework I'm sure you could find a number of nannies that would consider such an arrangement. In my situation there was no stay at home parent, but in the article the MB said she is a stay at home mom, so there likely might not have been much too do at all.

If this elderly woman wasn't a crook and just couldn't work a 8-10 hour day, it might be beneficial for her to trade a place to stay for some minor help around a house. If she can't make enough to cover rent elsewhere on her own comfortably I don't see why this wouldn't be a good idea.

At least you were a nanny. She wasn't.

I don't see how that changes anything. Except for the housework aspect (and that really could mean anything, maybe she was only asked to vacuum once a week and wipe the kitchen countertops, nothing hard) if she worked similar hours as me (~8 a week) it might be a perfectly fair trade, housing for 8 hours of work.

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Anonymous wrote:No one cleans your house and sits your kids for a room. How can any parent be that stupid? That mother is a real bimbo, if I ever saw one.

Not to start trouble or anything, because I don't know this families arrangement with this woman, but I used to trade childcare for a room without salary back about 4 years ago. I used to live in my own house that I was trying to sell and I was caring for some kids part-time for about $200 a week (just mornings with a different family in the afternoons). One day a guy sent my realtor an offer for my house of full asking so I took it without having anything lined up. I asked the family if we could work out a live-in scenario and we did. They stopped paying me, I stayed in a room upstairs near the kids, I still did my normal morning routine with them and I also babysat very occasionally for them without any extra pay.

Could I have commanded more $ than the trade was worth if I had searched around? Maybe, but they were there to help when I needed it, I already knew and loved the family and the kids, and I felt safe living with them for 6-7 months until summer while I found a new house in a nearby town.

So, basically just wanted to point out that depending on the amount of childcare and housework I'm sure you could find a number of nannies that would consider such an arrangement. In my situation there was no stay at home parent, but in the article the MB said she is a stay at home mom, so there likely might not have been much too do at all.

If this elderly woman wasn't a crook and just couldn't work a 8-10 hour day, it might be beneficial for her to trade a place to stay for some minor help around a house. If she can't make enough to cover rent elsewhere on her own comfortably I don't see why this wouldn't be a good idea.

At least you were a nanny. She wasn't.

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Anonymous wrote:No one cleans your house and sits your kids for a room. How can any parent be that stupid? That mother is a real bimbo, if I ever saw one.

Not to start trouble or anything, because I don't know this families arrangement with this woman, but I used to trade childcare for a room without salary back about 4 years ago. I used to live in my own house that I was trying to sell and I was caring for some kids part-time for about $200 a week (just mornings with a different family in the afternoons). One day a guy sent my realtor an offer for my house of full asking so I took it without having anything lined up. I asked the family if we could work out a live-in scenario and we did. They stopped paying me, I stayed in a room upstairs near the kids, I still did my normal morning routine with them and I also babysat very occasionally for them without any extra pay.

Could I have commanded more $ than the trade was worth if I had searched around? Maybe, but they were there to help when I needed it, I already knew and loved the family and the kids, and I felt safe living with them for 6-7 months until summer while I found a new house in a nearby town.

So, basically just wanted to point out that depending on the amount of childcare and housework I'm sure you could find a number of nannies that would consider such an arrangement. In my situation there was no stay at home parent, but in the article the MB said she is a stay at home mom, so there likely might not have been much too do at all.

If this elderly woman wasn't a crook and just couldn't work a 8-10 hour day, it might be beneficial for her to trade a place to stay for some minor help around a house. If she can't make enough to cover rent elsewhere on her own comfortably I don't see why this wouldn't be a good idea.

Anonymous wrote:No one cleans your house and sits your kids for a room. How can any parent be that stupid? That mother is a real bimbo, if I ever saw one.

Anonymous wrote:I've read several arrivals that said the woman was supposed to provide childcare and cleaning, for room and board. Also, an article stated they found her on Craigslist.

Anonymous wrote:Did you ALL miss the fact that the family "hired" her to be a live-in full time mother's helper, but never agreed to pay her anything? Wow. Imagine that! Why can't we get that deal?

Who said, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

But, but they just thought they got lucky, and hit the jackpot. My ass.