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: 06-27-1998
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:23am

Why would limited hours and days, lack of transportation...and all the rest have to do with whether its a preschool or not?


Wouldn't it be based more on the teachers certification and the curriculum and not on all the *other* stuff?


Both of my boys attended a preschool within our public school district, with certified teachers, a wonderful educational curriculum, with extended daycare and a choice between 1/2 day and full day...not only the entire school year but also with a summer program.

PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:23am
LOL, neither do I. But I forget you live under a gated, professionally landscaped rock - that's the only way I can imagine you were not aware that she was majorly involved in charity work while her children were still in their single digits. Oh, and now we're saying it's OK to do major amounts of volunteering once the kids are in school, just not when they're under 5? Isn't that a bit different than what you've been saying?
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:27am

My sons preschool teachers went to college for ECE and are certified to teach in the state with a teaching certificate.

PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:28am
Sure it is. But I think those are part of what makes the differences distinct.

We also have preschool within our public school system. I just don't know if I'm for 4 full days or 4 half days either one. I think that can be a little much & such a young age. But my verdict is still out on that one. Yes, it is preschool. Yes, it does have morning or afternoon transportation. If you do mornings you have to provide transportation home, if you do afternoons you are responsible for bringing your child. Only all day have transportation to and from. They do have to be potty trained and the teachers are all college graduates with degrees.

Local private school also has preschool. Of course there is no bus transportation for any of the K-6th much less the preschool. You have the arrival & dismissal lines that most parents prefer to use.

Some similarities, other differences.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:30am
Usually child care is for longer hours (7a - 6p) and not for a short 3 hours of no one arriving before 8:20 for 8:30 start and everyone picked up by 11:40 after a 11:30 dismissal. I see that as a big difference.

I was just stating the differences I see in our local preschools and daycare centers (although I do know of a couple of daycares that do have the arrival/dismissal lanes, pretty cool for those who have to commute in heavy traffic, I'm sure it is a time saver for the parent).

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:34am
re: potty training

I don't know of any preschools who will accept children that are not potty trained (unless there is a medical reason for the child not being potty trained).

It is the same kind of thinking as Kindergarten. Unless there is a medical reason, they are expected to be potty trained, no training pants, diapers, etc.

This goes for both private and public policies that I'm familiar with on behalf of checking out possibilities for future enrollment. The ones I'm interested in with the best programs you have to put your name on the list by the child's 2nd birthday to get them in the 4 year old program. We are a long way from it but I want to be ready by the 2nd birthday.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:35am
So all of the surface qualifications that you listed for a preschool really don't make it a preschool.
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PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:35am

It's OK to do major amounts of volunteering, whenever.

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Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:37am
That's *not* the distinction in the USA. I teach at a state university that has something like six different colleges. " The College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Journalism, etc. The technical distinction between a college and a university is that a university is composed of more than one college. Sometimes it's an undergraduate college and a graduate school. Sometimes it's a School of Engineering and a School of Liberal Arts, both only offering undergraduate degrees. But technically, that could be a university.
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Registered: 02-23-2004
Mon, 02-23-2004 - 11:39am
To me there is a HUGE difference between a preschool and a childcare establishment. If it looks, smells, acts like a childcare establishment with a preschool conducted within the confines, I won't even pick up the phone to call about a possible enrollment. No thank you. I want them to be distinctly different.

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