Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?

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Registered: 01-28-2004
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: 10-08-2003
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 10:06am
if hours of operation and transporation options were what mattered, you'd have the point you seem to think you do. if the classroom in your hypothetical "preschool" is staffed by a certified teacher and a good-sized support staff that offer the children age-appropriate and interesting environments and activities, then, yes, it would be comparable to my son's dc; if it is a kennel run by a group of mommies who found they could rent out a church basement and photocopy workbooks for next to nothing, then, you're right, it wouldn't be comparable.

i can't imagaine that any certified teacher would consider the foundation of a program embedded in its hours of operation and unrelated to the skills that she would use in a full-time as well as a part-time classroom. maybe the type of "teacher" who would work in the kennel-like example i've offered couldn't imagine how she could hold her own during a longer session than she does, but a trained educator wouldn't be so superficial.

the most important differences between programs have to do with how appropriate and interesting the environment and activities are, not with what hours children can attend, and in that regard there are some "preschools" that are more like some daycare centers than other "preschools," and vice versa. generally, though, it takes at least some full-time enrollment for a program to be affordable to parents and to afford to attract and keep appropriately trained staff.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 10:15am
These are preschools. Administrators & Teachers that have went to college to "teach" preschool and pre-kindergarten.

They have enrollment periods and only so many can be accepted due to class sizes. If you get accepted the classes are designated times and if you work you must provide transportation and daycare for your child as of 11:30 dismissal time. All children must be potty trained. The teachers greet you at the car for arrival and dismissal at the appropriate times of *30 and 11:30. They do not provide transportation to your daycare, that is the parent's responsibility. There is no childcare on site, only the preschool open during their hours of operation.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 10:37am

Actually the concept was introduced earlier than that when people began talking about how 40 hour a week volunteering wasn't needed or wasn't beneficial to them.

SUS

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 10:48am
Maybe I am a militant SAHM underneath my CTWOHM exterior.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 10:49am
I understand that, but we're still talking about 40 hours a week.

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Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:00am

If

SUS

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Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:09am
"Income and savings to live."

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Registered: 10-08-2003
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:10am
i can't imagine that anyone who has an education in education could possibly believe that the toilet training of the students and the specific number of hours of operation have anything to do with whether a preschool program is like or unlike a daycare program; trained educators know that those things are relatively if not absolutely insignificant. as i said, i doubt that anyone but a dilatant would make such a distinction. i can't know whether trained educators actually are telling you that these things make an important difference, but i do know that the majority of trained educators would tell you that they don't.
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Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:17am

It may not be the intent, but part of teaching is also caring for the child.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:23am
Not the point. I don't see preschool & childcare as one in the same. That is my entire point. That is the point I brought up about the preschool teachers & administrators I've spoke to on the subject. They say "no, we are not childcare, we are a preschool and the differences are as I described above as it has been described to me. It isn't childcare. It is "school". Big difference. The mothers I know who put their children into the programs I've checked about using myself in years to come as that time arrives are not doing it for "childcare". They have baby sitters that they use frequently days, evenings, and weekends. They are sending their children to "school". If they want some free time to spend time at the gym or go to the salon they pick up their phone & hire a sitter to be at their house from a to z time. They do this often (weekly basis).

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