Anonymous
10/30/2013 19:38
Subject: DB ate my food.
LMAO Lean Cuisines are unhealthy and modeling poor eating habits? That's a healthy choice for a meal on the go! You're probably anorexic and think anything aside from plain lettuce is the devils food.
Anonymous
10/30/2013 17:31
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tough if I want to drink a coke, eat chips and a Snickers in front of your kid, I will.
And nannies get upset when people refer to them as babysitters. This is the reason why you are a babysitter and not a nanny.
Wait, so now we are qualifying peoples job titles based on diet? So if my doctor eats a cheeseburger for lunch I have to refer to her as a nurse? Come off it, you are just ridiculous (and your comment added nothing useful or constructive at all).
Your doctor isn't eating in front of your children and helping to model good eating habits. I eat all sorts of things when I'm not working, but when I'm working, what I eat is healthy.
To hear things like "I'm not your child's role model" and "I will eat in front of your kid whatever I want" (though this poster says she is not a nanny, but in other discussions about food and children, comments like this have been made) do not speak highly of what a nanny is supposed to be.
Nannies spend up to 10-11 hours a day with their employer's children. To hear someone say, well, it isn't my job to model healthy behavior is just wrong. Children watch every move you make. Parents hired you to give quality care to their children while they are not there. If any of you ever spent even five minutes reading a book on childhood development, you would know this.
My employers know that their children's manners, eating habits and behaviors are greatly influenced by the time I spend with their children. To say we don't influence those things is wrong.
And yes, I know I got off topic here. Employer should not have eaten her food. She should be reimbursed.
If you would climb down off of your high horse, perhaps you would be able to read what I was actually responding to. The PP claimed that if someone eats "poorly" in front of a child, they deserve to be referred to as a babysitter, because no professional nanny would ever do such a thing. I was pointing out that eating habits do not correspond to job title. A nanny is a nanny, even if she eats 10 lean cuisines a day. Perhaps your healthy behavior modeling could extend past food and be reflected in the way you treat others as well (eg judging someone you have never met).
Anonymous
10/30/2013 17:23
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:I find it incredible that they ate 8 Lean Cuisines over a single weekend. How odd.
Of course they should apologize and replace or reimburse.
The portions are small. DB probably ate two at a time.
Anonymous
10/30/2013 12:21
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tough if I want to drink a coke, eat chips and a Snickers in front of your kid, I will.
And nannies get upset when people refer to them as babysitters. This is the reason why you are a babysitter and not a nanny.
Wait, so now we are qualifying peoples job titles based on diet? So if my doctor eats a cheeseburger for lunch I have to refer to her as a nurse? Come off it, you are just ridiculous (and your comment added nothing useful or constructive at all).
Your doctor isn't eating in front of your children and helping to model good eating habits. I eat all sorts of things when I'm not working, but when I'm working, what I eat is healthy.
To hear things like "I'm not your child's role model" and "I will eat in front of your kid whatever I want" (though this poster says she is not a nanny, but in other discussions about food and children, comments like this have been made) do not speak highly of what a nanny is supposed to be.
Nannies spend up to 10-11 hours a day with their employer's children. To hear someone say, well, it isn't my job to model healthy behavior is just wrong. Children watch every move you make. Parents hired you to give quality care to their children while they are not there. If any of you ever spent even five minutes reading a book on childhood development, you would know this.
My employers know that their children's manners, eating habits and behaviors are greatly influenced by the time I spend with their children. To say we don't influence those things is wrong.
And yes, I know I got off topic here. Employer should not have eaten her food. She should be reimbursed.
+1000 Another nanny here who cannot fathom how you all can claim to be worth ridiculous rates, then claim its not your job to model good behavior and habits. What exactly is it that you do? And don't say "care for children". If caring for children isn't teaching them good habits what is it? Do you honestly think someone should pay you $20+ per hour to do nothing more than keep a child alive? Get real.
Anonymous
10/30/2013 12:16
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tough if I want to drink a coke, eat chips and a Snickers in front of your kid, I will.
And nannies get upset when people refer to them as babysitters. This is the reason why you are a babysitter and not a nanny.
Wait, so now we are qualifying peoples job titles based on diet? So if my doctor eats a cheeseburger for lunch I have to refer to her as a nurse? Come off it, you are just ridiculous (and your comment added nothing useful or constructive at all).
Your doctor isn't eating in front of your children and helping to model good eating habits. I eat all sorts of things when I'm not working, but when I'm working, what I eat is healthy.
To hear things like "I'm not your child's role model" and "I will eat in front of your kid whatever I want" (though this poster says she is not a nanny, but in other discussions about food and children, comments like this have been made) do not speak highly of what a nanny is supposed to be.
Nannies spend up to 10-11 hours a day with their employer's children. To hear someone say, well, it isn't my job to model healthy behavior is just wrong. Children watch every move you make. Parents hired you to give quality care to their children while they are not there. If any of you ever spent even five minutes reading a book on childhood development, you would know this.
My employers know that their children's manners, eating habits and behaviors are greatly influenced by the time I spend with their children. To say we don't influence those things is wrong.
And yes, I know I got off topic here. Employer should not have eaten her food. She should be reimbursed.
Anonymous
10/30/2013 10:28
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tough if I want to drink a coke, eat chips and a Snickers in front of your kid, I will.
And nannies get upset when people refer to them as babysitters. This is the reason why you are a babysitter and not a nanny.
I do not take care of children.
Anonymous
10/30/2013 10:26
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tough if I want to drink a coke, eat chips and a Snickers in front of your kid, I will.
And nannies get upset when people refer to them as babysitters. This is the reason why you are a babysitter and not a nanny.
Wait, so now we are qualifying peoples job titles based on diet? So if my doctor eats a cheeseburger for lunch I have to refer to her as a nurse? Come off it, you are just ridiculous (and your comment added nothing useful or constructive at all).
Anonymous
10/30/2013 08:38
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Tough if I want to drink a coke, eat chips and a Snickers in front of your kid, I will.
And nannies get upset when people refer to them as babysitters. This is the reason why you are a babysitter and not a nanny.
Anonymous
10/29/2013 23:13
Subject: DB ate my food.
Tough if I want to drink a coke, eat chips and a Snickers in front of your kid, I will.
Anonymous
10/29/2013 23:01
Subject: DB ate my food.
Tell them to get you your own fridge and freezer.
Anonymous
10/29/2013 22:11
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Eating LeanCuisines every day seems that a horrible food choice. Aren't nannies supposed to model good eating habits?!
I don't eat it everyday. I just like to have it stocked in the freezer for when there is nothing else. I sometimes bring leftovers from dinner, but honestly I am a student and I work full-time so I don't always have the time. Why are you so concerned about my eating choices. I'm not eating a bag of chips and a Coke in front of the children. You are deflecting from the point of this thread, why is that? Why is it so hard for DCMDers to stick to the point?
Ha, he probably ate it on purpose! You stockpile their freezer as if it is your own?
Anonymous
10/29/2013 22:09
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You shouldn't be keeping more than a single weeks worth of food there. Bring what you need on Monday. This is a bit off topic, but it would irritate me if you took over half my freezer.
You realize some families have more than one freezer, right? And some nannies eat 8+ meals/week at work? A much nicer way to make your point would have been, "On a related point, how much space do your LCs take up in their freezer? I could see myself getting annoyed if I had to keep half the freezer blocked off for my nanny all the time. It doesn't excuse eating your food (which he should apologize for eating and either replace or reimburse), but it does sound like they're normally very accommodating so I wouldn't waste any time being outraged. We all do stupid stuff like that sometimes."
+100 "don't eat my food, and don't take up space" You sound like a peach. I eat breakfast lunch at work every day, and sometimes dinner. If you aren't providing food, you should keep your mouth shut about nanny storing food at work.
She had enough food there that she had 8 entrees still there over the weekend! Plus I am sure she had more there throughout the week when she was actually there to eat food. I am not saying that it is an excuse for DB. I am saying that it sounds over the top and would irritate me. Also, as a nanny, I would never take so much food to work that I had stuff still there over the weekend. I do take things to work that I may eat throughout the week, but try to be considerate of other people's space.
Anonymous
10/29/2013 21:59
Subject: DB ate my food.
I think they want you to eat their food.
Anonymous
10/29/2013 20:06
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Eating LeanCuisines every day seems that a horrible food choice. Aren't nannies supposed to model good eating habits?!
I don't eat it everyday. I just like to have it stocked in the freezer for when there is nothing else. I sometimes bring leftovers from dinner, but honestly I am a student and I work full-time so I don't always have the time. Why are you so concerned about my eating choices. I'm not eating a bag of chips and a Coke in front of the children. You are deflecting from the point of this thread, why is that? Why is it so hard for DCMDers to stick to the point?
Anonymous
10/29/2013 18:57
Subject: DB ate my food.
Anonymous wrote:Eating LeanCuisines every day seems that a horrible food choice. Aren't nannies supposed to model good eating habits?!
Didn't you already try to start this argument?