Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?

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Registered: 01-28-2004
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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Registered: 07-21-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:17pm
You've obviously never had your child wrap his arms around you and beg you to stay home with them. It's a little easier if you "have" to go to work, not so easy if you're going to get a facial or to play tennis.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:21pm
It's a luxury regardless of the cost, I agree.

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:23pm
I'm with P&J on this one. If I didn't have my kids education savings in line, I'd get a paying job before volunteering. Oh, wait a second, I did get a job...and I volunteer.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:29pm
Not paying for college is neglectful?

SUS

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:30pm
Well, I'm thinking of the hundreds of thousands of hours of volunteering that must go on in my community from parents who do not have their children's projected college expenses saved yet. I'm thinking of how many parents would be involved in PTO and church work and the myriad of other great causes who would have to stop contributing and go to work, should they carry your philosophy. Especially at my local Early Childhood Family Education center where most of the volunteers are mothers of young chidlren who haven't had a whole lot of time to start that college fund.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:31pm
But it is not about you - the parent - it is about the child.

SUS

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:35pm
You must be kidding.

No, I absolutely don't agree that leaving my children with a nanny while I voluteered for the arts, or the underprivileged would have been more beneficial to them than me staying home with them myself and not putting them in the care of a nanny.

My kids learned that staying with them was more important to me than saving the whales. Now that they're in school I can save the whales.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:36pm
Why would anyone spend 40 or 50 hours, week in and week out, volunteering, and then tell their children to take on loans for college?

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:39pm
Man, don't I know it!

Hugs,

Bridget & Ethan (5)

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Tue, 02-17-2004 - 3:40pm
Yes, if you have the time to volunteer at the expense of your children's college savings then I would call that neglectful.

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