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 understand it. Where do you figure I don't?
" Heck, I've never even BEEN to Minnesota, let alone lived there, and I understood why it might be more expensive there than other places. And I'm just a lowly hourly wage employee working night shift."
Just a "lowly" wage worker? You said it, again, not me.
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."
What *are* you talking about? I didnt research for Maryland! I researched for nanny salaries in general in the US, but specifically I was interested in my own area, Northern CA, and Minnesota, given the context of this discussion. But whatever!
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You do realize that not all
why? Well for me a sahp with a nanny, I have a large family and have responsiblities other than my children and my home.
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Jenn
But think of all the other volunteer activities that are NOT filling a lack that should be provided at home by parents:
All volunteer activities that are for the elderly. Their parents died decades ago.
Special Olympics and all the other programs that are about providing fun and life-affirming activities for those with disabilities. Special Olympics is something that no parent, no matter how devoted to their special needs child, can re-create at home.
School volunteerism that makes up for a lack that was formerly filled by paid employees, not parents. It isn't negligent parenting that causes a need for cafeteria and library volunteers.
Shelters for battered women. These women can't run to their parents. Their parents' homes is likely the first place that violent husband/boyfriend will look for them.
I could go on. But you get the idea.
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