Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?
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Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?
| 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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I really push your buttons, don't I?
Here's an idea, for a change, try to debate the issues instead of the people. You're so predictable.
Edited 2/18/2004 7:08:12 PM ET by islimshady
You're still not debating the specific issue.
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You can backpedal all you want. I personally don't have time to go back and research the derivation throughout the thread of the various financial and parenting philosophies spouted by you and PJM. Suffice it to say, I am sure I am not the only one who got the impression that you guys disapprove of people who are working hard at something other than taking care of their immediate families and their future college expenses.
For the fourth or fifth time, you're missing the point.
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I can understand paying a caregiver for 40 hours a week so a person can go out and do good works. I wouldn't see it as all that much different than the person who chooses to teach school in a blighted urban community when they have plenty of other work choices.
Too many issues here: SAHP having a full-time nanny, SAHP devoting 40 hours a week volunteering, SAHP not working at a paying job AND not having appropriate (in your standards) college funds saved, SAHP not actually spending his or her time with children, and so forth, it really is confusing. You have a lot of strong opinions about what a SAHP should be doing even though you don't really value SAH in and of itself. Why don't you stick with the People Shouldn't SAH mantra instead of My Ten Important Rules For Those Who Make the Mistake of SAH?
I must confess, I don't have time to go back and re-read and find out whether I made a mental leap that wasn't there (don't think I necessarily did) but I do know enough of your attitude about paying for college to know that you probably want to say that no one should be doing anything other than working for money when they haven't got Harvard or Yale paid for for their children.
I don't think I will take your advice about keeping up. I think I will go away for a while and do some good works. I caught a whiff of some of what I consider a yucky attitude about taking care of others only after a very prosperous future is secured for one's own children and it made me feel outraged. I think I will turn that outrage into something positive. I think I will spend more time volunteering and less time on this board. Don't you think that would be a good idea? (I really would feel so much better knowing I have your approval...)
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