Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?

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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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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 2:32pm
Really? Then how do you explain your failure to understand its application in this situation?"

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!


MM

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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 2:47pm
And I'll assume for all the hype you talk, you don't have your kids' college savings fully funded yet. Otherwise I'm sure you'd want to tell me all about it, right?

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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 2:50pm
Actually, in a post on this thread to It's Me Again islim said her college funds were "all set."

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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 2:52pm
LOL! Yeah...but, you know, my husband loves expensive watches. I could never understand that!
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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 3:03pm

You do realize that not all

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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 3:10pm

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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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 3:29pm
Are you away from your children 40 hours a week, every week, to volunteer?

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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 3:34pm
No I don't have a mental block, but WHO actually SAH and leaves their kids in dc ft?

Jenn

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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 3:34pm
Yeah, but I asked her for details and she conveniently ignored me.
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Fri, 02-20-2004 - 3:40pm
Even if all parents took care of all their childrens' needs, volunteers would still be needed. It's true that a few (few!) volunteer activities are picking up the slack for what parents can't or won't provide: the Big Brother Big Sister program comes to mind. (And even then, I'd welcome some more knowledgable poster defending the parents of kids in Big Brother Big Sister.)

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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