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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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 9:56am
You're starting to sound like a militant sahm . . . .

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Registered: 10-05-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 11:08am

I have no idea what you were going to say, i cant read your mind :-) that is why i asked you . Although i dont think that is the reason everyone has a housekeeper! so I guess we dont all know why

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Registered: 10-05-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 11:14am

I did come late your right, but you do realize that some families can raise their families on one income and

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 11:48am
Preschool IS childcare. And I don't have a full 3 hours a day every day to myself. Joe goes to school 3 days a week. During the time he is in school I try to do family stuff and my volunteer stuff. I rarely have any time in my day to do anything for myself other than go to the gym.

Jenna

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 12:07pm
I have never looked at preschool as childcare....I've always considered it education.

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Sun, 02-22-2004 - 12:42pm
When I was working we had a nanny for childcare and preschool for education. We also paid for both. Now that I am not working preschool still functions as education for Joe, but for ME it functions as childcare.

PNJsmom was under the impression I was using additional childcare. I was just clarifying that for me preschool functions as childcare.

Jenna

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Registered: 07-02-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 1:41pm
Oh I see, so as long as mom tends to the children, daddy can follow his bliss without being considered selfish. Can you hear yourself here?
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Registered: 09-25-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 2:02pm

But a quality nanny, child care center, family child care home or any other ECE setting you can name, should provide educational opportunities. . .just like a quality 'preschool'.


Children are at an age where they soak up learning opportunities in their world. . .everything is education to a young child. . .whether in a formal setting or not.


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Registered: 10-05-2003
Sun, 02-22-2004 - 3:26pm
I agree with you preschool is childcare while recieving a education. My school age children recieve childcare while they attend school.
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Sun, 02-22-2004 - 4:13pm
"Preschool IS childcare."

Not in my opinion. Not by a long shot. If it was childcare, why would everyone I know who has nannies also send their children to preschool? I know I didn't send my kids to preschool just so that I wouldn't have to watch them for a few hours, I sent them because I considered it enriching and beneficial to them.

You're easily the first person I've ever heard refer to preschool as childcare. That's definitely a first for me. Do you call the people who staff the school teachers or daycare workers? The people who taught my sons were teachers, with degrees and experience, not daycare workers. The place I brought them to was Community nursery SCHOOL, not ABC DAYCARE CENTER.

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