Are nannies as good for kids as parents?
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Are nannies as good for kids as parents?
| Mon, 04-06-2009 - 4:13pm |
At lunch, I was walking at a park near my office.
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No thanks.
well, I'll just have to supercede your observations with my own ACTUAL experiences with having nannies. While we had a few instances of nannies not doing their job -- in fact most of the job that they did the least of was the light housekeeping -- NOT slacking on the childcare.
Several were outstanding. Most were very good. One stayed 4 years, one stayed 5 years and our current one has been with us a year. None of them would have stayed if they weren't doing a good job.
eileen
Can you explain the basis for superseding, lol,
I can remember one especially contentious weekend way back in the dark ages (when John...and probably some of the Moms currently on this board! LOL... was 3 or 4). The weather was horrible so not much to do outside and he'd just been fractious all day and my nerves were on edge, too, so we'd been in conflict the entire day. Or maybe it seemed that way, but finally after a what seemed like the last in an endless number of tantrums and blowouts, we were both in recovery mode on the sofa, sullenly sitting next to each other and mindlessly looking at, without really seeing, whatever was on TV.
John gave out this huge sigh, leaned against me and said, "I wish I were at daycare today."
LOL, I just hugged him a bit closer and said, "I wish you were, too."
Kitty
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