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
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 5:29pm
I didn't know you were volunteering that much.

That is what the discussion is about, being away from your kids for the equivalent amount of time as a fulltime job without having a fulltime job.

How many times did we have to say it before it finally sank in?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 5:50pm

Well *I* have managed to work FT and volunteer in various capacities without having to use 40 hour a week daycare.

SUS

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:14pm
Why would your taxes go towards a loan? A loan is just that a loan of money paid back in full with interest.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:21pm
No she's not "as American as any." She's a Mexican national with a green card. I'm sure she's a lovely person, but that doesn't make her a Mexican American.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:24pm
Because they feel 1) their volunteer work is both important and necessary and 2) because they feel their kids should pay for college themselves.

Doesn't make them neglectful parents. it makes them different from you.

Different from PJM does NOT equal neglectful.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:35pm
I went back to work 8 years ago when my DD3 went to full day school. For my first three years back in the work force I worked in the school system so worked when they were in school, the exception being the last year and a half I had to be at work at 6:30 so DH got them up and off to school.

When I moved to the job that I am in now (which I did after he retired) I worked around my DD3 school schedule expanding my hours as she went from elementary school to middle school and now to high school. I now work from about 35-40 hours a week. In the summer I cut back on my hours to about 30 and go in earlier so that I am usually home by 1:00.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:35pm
Your taxes aren't supporting student loans. Student loans are made by private lenders; they are only guaranteed by the feds. Sallie Mae is the vehicle under which the majority of student loans are funded and Sallie Mae is a privatized company (since 1997) that, much like FNMA and Freddie Mac will soon been entirely out from under government funding. The only remaining portion of Sallie Mae (now officially SLM Corporation) that has ANY government connection is the Student Loan Marketing Association, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sallie Mae and which is just a fraction of SLM's net worth.

http://www.salliemae.com/about

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:38pm
More important? No. Equally important? sure.

and perhaps the reason many people don't volunteer at night and weekends is the same reason why many people don't WORK at night and weekends. Because that isn't when the majority of business takes place in this country. It makes little sense to volunteer at a time when people don't need you. Just like it makes little sense to be a secretary from 11p to 7am if the people you support work from 8am to 6pm.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:40pm
You're not holding your breath or anything are you?
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-21-2003
Wed, 02-18-2004 - 6:58pm
Yes, I see that your point has absolutely nothing to do with mine, you're talking about 2 different things.

Unless of course that you're implying that some SAHM's are so incredibly incompetent that they actually need a fulltime nanny.

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