Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The heartbreak of leaving is the worst.

+1. But only if the parents refuse to let the nanny see the former charge again. I have had one miserable mother who refused to ever let me see my charge again but fortunately had two other mothers who have welcomed me into their lives as a family friend. A true blessing!

Treasure the families that are as willing as you are to maintain some relationship post employment. They continually remind you that you were important in their child's life.

When parents make selfish choices that negatively affect their children. Divorce and custody fights, arguing in front of kids, drinking, smoking, watching tv all day, the list goes on and on. Kids watch everything, they see everything. They need to see that disagreement happens, but they also need to know that tiny tiffs don’t always blow up into yelling and screaming.

Verbal abuse is thegrey area for me. As long as the above aren’t spilling over into obvious harm and the parent isn’t physically or mentally abusing their child, I’ll keep my mouth shut. But when parents yell at their kids repeatedly, swear at them? As soon as I have a chance to talk to them away from kids, I will. That’s verbal abuse, and while it may or may not rise to the level of caulking cps, I won’t stay in a house like that.

Anonymous wrote:The heartbreak of leaving is the worst.

+1. But only if the parents refuse to let the nanny see the former charge again. I have had one miserable mother who refused to ever let me see my charge again but fortunately had two other mothers who have welcomed me into their lives as a family friend. A true blessing!

The heartbreak of leaving is the worst.

Selfish, self-centered mothers. And saying goodbye to a charge when the position ends.

I am working as nanny almost six years.
Being honest now I don’t like my job like before.
I used to enjoy children company I still do but I get so bored with babies.
I hate when mom feed kids junk food and explain to me how healthy food important for their children and I have to be careful about it .

Usually I love being a nanny and I’ve been with my family for 7 years, but I hate being a nanny when:

- people look down on me and think I don’t have a real job
- Being embarrassed about my job
- when I regret not going to college because while I’m well paid I will only ever be a nanny
- when the parents are home
- When the mom takes credit for my work
- when even after all these years the parents just think of me as staff and don’t realize how important I am to the kids
- when I do my job so well the parents don’t realize how much harder their lives would be without me and just think life is this easy
- when the grandparents visit
- whenever I think about my job ending because it will destroy me to leave these kids