Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?
Find a Conversation
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?

Pages
Do you feel differently about lesser volunteer hours (which I beleive to be the norm)?
Jenna
Jenna
Jenna
Jenna
I disapprove of a SAHM taking off for most of the day and leaving her kids with a nanny when she's doing something other than what she has to do, ie, a job. I don't assume anyone is working for extra's, even p&j, I don't consider college, retirement savings or a comfortable home to be extras.
Maybe a SAHM who does leave her kids in someone else's care ought not call herself a SAHM, because essentially, she isn't one.
I don't think anyone really deserves a life of total leisure. Maybe that's just my hang up, but why do you think they do? Should we all get to do whatever we please, not work, not take care of our kids? Somebody has got to do it, why should only moms be exempt?
My point (which you can feel free to disagree with me on) is that both of us spend time on things that are not absolutely necessary. AND that we are both away from our children for some of that time. In that way they are equivalent.
Jenna
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
I do not think anyone "deserves" a life of leisure. But I can't understand why you would object to someone hiring a nanny to make their life more leisurely. Just because you don't live a life of leisure it doesn't mean it's immoral to have ANY leisure time.
Jenna
Edited 2/19/2004 5:10:23 PM ET by texigan
Pages