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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Just FYI, we belong in the latter catagory. We're all set.
It's not the people who can afford a life of leisure who I have a problem with, it's the one's who can't afford it yet insist on pursuing it. You know, the ones who think their leisure time is more important than saving for their children's college. Apparently there are loads of them. If you don't want for anything then by all means, live it up!
Edited 2/19/2004 7:27:58 PM ET by islimshady
Secondly, if you're wit is that good, feel free to demonstrate it. I love a good comeback....when I actually read one, that is. When I hear someone say they had one but decline to post it, not so much. it's like the fisherman who lost the "big one". Right. Sure ya did.
And finally, you aren't attacking Mapper's position, you're utterly avoiding it. Suggesting "for argument's sake" to dismiss everything she said as irrelevant is NOT attacking her position. It's attempting to avoid attacking it, and I think we all know why you would prefer NOT to address her arguments, as you've nothing with which to rebut them.
You're just mad at me for pointing it out.
As for the rest of your post...as I said, I've never even been to Minnesota, and why you would research nanny salaries for Maryland when my son is full grown is beyond me.
And if those folks DIDN'T put in those hours, I believe with every fiber of my being that YOUR children would suffer directly for it.
You can pretend to yourself that benefit isn't a direct one to each member of society, but you're only lying to yourself. It won't change the fact on iota.
Frankly I shudder to imagine a world in which volunteerism is dismissed as a valuable contribution with affects the entire society as beneficial. That's one reason why Dubya needs to go; with his ilk at the helm, aided and abetted by the disgusting likes of Ashcroft and Rumsfeld, our society is heading exactly there....and the irony (if you can call something that repulsive ironic) is they're doing it under the hijacked flag of "Christian values."
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