Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?

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Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?
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Tue, 02-10-2004 - 6:41pm
Something I've often wondered about, but never had the opportunity to ask. Why do SAHM or SAHD need a full time nanny, especially when they aren't working from home. I can easily see the need if the SAHP is a WAHP, but what is the logic for a full time nanny otherwise?

Any comments?

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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:33pm
Wouldn't all that be nice....And I'm sure that's why some people HAVE nannies. But the whole point is that none of those are "necessities." People have nannies because they can afford one and the WANT one. THAT is one possible answer to the original question.

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And there are people who have a nanny so they CAN.

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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:35pm
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So you already had kids when you became a SAHM?

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:38pm
wow. There must be some nanny shortage in Minneapolis!
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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:43pm
No, I got pregnant while I was in the Air Force and got a pregnancy discharge. I got out three months before DD1 was born.
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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:43pm
In my book, a parent who WOH 40+ hours/week in a job that serves no benefit to the world but her/himself so that they can have their "frivolous niceties" doesn't sit well either.

But *no one* here fits that picture.
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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:47pm

Would you like to see our tax forms for proof?

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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:49pm
I am sure there are a few people who fit that scenerio. I (normally) WAH, which takes my attention off my children and it is totally for self satisfaction and *gravy*. Actually, dh continues to WOH when he doesn't have to. He does it because he wants to. His income is totally frivilous. Does that make him a bad parent? Should he give up his personal dreams and aspirations, his sense of civic duty so that he can be available to his children 24/7, simply because we don't need his income. This is such a double standard.
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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:49pm
I don't think so.

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Bridget & Ethan (5)

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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:54pm
So you can't say that your staying home had nothing to do with the kids, right? If you hadn't been pregnant, you would have still been working, no?.
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Mon, 02-16-2004 - 1:58pm
You do not fit the scenario I was talking about.

First of all, I mentioned that the "job" would not serve any other purpose other than that person's needs. You, I thought, worked for Children's services, which in my mind, serves more than just you. Second of all, by "frivolous" I meant way above and beyond the necessary things in life (the thread mentioned luxury cars, exotic vacations, etc.)

If your dh's income is totally frivolous, then does that mean he doesn't have to work to maintain a home/car/retirement savings/college savings/clothes/usual vacations/etc?

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