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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"Relax" Iam relaxed pnjm ! Even more relaxed now that i have a nanny :-)
Edited to add~ what does how many hours i volunteer or tend to other responsiblities than my home and family
A sad fact about mentally ill or drug addicted adults is that they simply walk away from helping hands put out by their families. The schizophrenic ones may not even be aware of what they're doing, but their families can't legally force them into institutions and can't legally force them to stay at the family house.
And then there are the older ones who may not even HAVE families. Not everyone has a family. Some people have no siblings and the single parent who raised them is dead. They may have aunts and uncles whose existence they are unaware of (and vice versa) because single mother was not close to her own family.
Then there are those volunteer activities that are NOT making up for a lack in the family:
Volunteering for school (that's making up for a lack of paid employees)
Volunteering to provide life enhancing extras for people with disabilities: it's not like Special Olympics is something parents can do at home.
Volunteering for political causes and causes that are not about helping specific people such as enviromental volunteering (planting trees and such).
Volunteering to help the poor. The rest of their family is just as poor as they are. Habitat for Humanity is not filling a void created by uncaring families.
Battered women's shelters: they SHOULDN'T run to their families. That's the first place their abuser will look for them.
Suicide Hotline and all other hotlines. If their families could fill this need, they surely would. They probably already tried. But sometimes you just need the ear of an anonymous person who knows the right thing to say.
And on and on and on.
What about Princess Diana or Fergie? What about all of the first ladies and true corporate wives? Are they all negligent parents? None of them get paid for the over-40-hour-a-week they put in in their official and unofficial capacities.
What about other wealthy people that could support communities on the interest of their prinicpal holdings but hire a nanny and go to work anyway. Is that okay? And if so, why? I don't mean the run of the mill working wealthy guy, I mean the stratospherically wealthy people that couldn't increase their SOL by drawing a salary. What are they doing for their family by working?
SUS
Some things I was wondering myself but was not sure how to address. Im glad you did.
I too would like to know why is it that
For me, I have other responsiblities than my children and home so I have a nanny who is like family to care for my greatest blessings:-)
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exactly right. different states have different requirements, training programs, licensing requirements...CT has one of the most rigorous programs which is why, if you get a teaching degree here, you can teach just about anywhere in the country without applying for another license.
as for substitutes (in CT) -- the only requirement is that the person have a bachelor's degree.
eileen
I don't know the particulars of the "vehicles" you asked about, you'd have to ask our financial planner, that's why we pay him. He is a partner with the LPH Group (Lomas, Pratt, Heaney wealth management advisors)in Westport, CT. Feel free to make an appointment but you'll need investable assets of 250K or more to get one.
I don't really want to tell you about it, but if you insist, there you have it.
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