Would you hire a morbidly obese Nanny?

Sorry but kids do run. This is one thing we had to be prepared for looking after our grandchildren.

But if a child is on reins then why is anyone running after them? That doesn't strike me as allowing them to be very active now does it?

Unfortunately for you and your assumptions, mine are very active. They run and play and jump and climb just like every other child you know. Running around is normal, running 'off' is a choice - they just know what the boundaries are, even from very young ages. If I don't think they would listen and respect the boundaries they stayed near me until they could. Didn't take long. No running necessary.

Quite honestly if it's necessary for a nanny to be constantly chasing after her charge I would think she didn't have any control and would question her ability to do the job.

You cant estimate her BMI if you have no idea of her weight?

You have already seen she struggles to get off the floor so how would a trial help with that?

A BMI of 50 to 60 is huge and dangerous. At 5'7" I would weigh 25 stone to be midway that point. I would be unable to look after myself never mind a baby.

Likewise if your kids are sitting on their arse all day, I’d take a long hard look at your parenting skills.

I admit I haven't RTFT so this might have been said already, but I presume she's a professional with references? If she's qualified and has been in work as a Nanny, I would assume she's up to doing the job.

If your children are running all over the place and they aren't in a park/play area, then you should probably take a long, hard look at your parenting skills.

Maybe your kids are very inactive? It’s normal for young kids to be running here and there and yes for a parent to be running after toddlers, which is why reins are suggested on so many threads.

Maybe you are more judgemental than me and more scathing. I don’t consider them to be morbidly obese. But I don’t personally know their BMIs like you clearly do.

With my arms.

I moved after them in my wheelchair, same as anyone else would with their legs.

If you think 30+ 5-6 year olds do what someone says, and not always in an enclosed area, you don't know many 5-6 year olds

But WHY would it??? Everyone on here seems to be constantly dashing after their children like roadrunner?? I don't think I've ever had to 'run' after any of my kids. They just... didn't need that. If you're perpetually chasing 2 year olds on the verge of mortal danger maybe you should have a look at your safety expectations and teach them accordingly.

Point is for op nanny to be 50/60 bmi she must be very very overweight

or she has totally exaggerated

you can obv be heavy and classed overweight and bmi prove that

equally they can be overweight but be fitter then those who aren’t

And your point is?

Fit but fat. My Gym trainer used to say that to me

but I was a couple of stone less than you at the time

according to bmi charts you are 42.8 and morbid obese

Even walking them down the road/crossing the road, would be very difficult once they're out of the pram/buggy stage.

ETA: I mean if you were a wheelchair using Nanny.

It isn't ignorance. Your deleted comment criticised my comments so I've posted links as evidence.

It is understandably a sensitive subject, people are very defensive but it is a fact that someone who is morbidly obese, not just overweight, will be at risk of significant health issues. For them to be employed in a large corporation with sick pay etc fine but for a parent to privately employ someone they really do need to go with the candidate less likely to have fitness, sickness and mobility issues.

You sound extremely fit running 5m a day and eating a very healthy diet.

I’d be interested to know, so would OP possibly. How did you manage with babies/toddlers, presumably they were on the floor sometimes? How did you lift them up and down off the floor? How did you manage when they run off at the park etc.

I agree with @ShowerOfShites teaching 5-6 year olds who will do as you say in an enclosed area is obviously different to chasing after an excitable toddler.

I'm 5.8, around 20 stone. Used to be much slimmer when I was on a vlc liquid diet which made me lose hair and black out.

I can't do the splits but I too walk/run 5+ miles a day, lift heavy at the gym and have no trouble keeping up in HIIT/cardio based classes, unlike some much slimmer people - often to their open surprise/displeasure. I eat a Mediterranean style 'diet' i.e. lots of veg and seafood. Very little sugar. Perfect blood pressure and sugar levels, no known cardiovascular or other issues.

The ignorance and fat bashing on this thread is something else.

It's not ridiculous if you want your children to be able to run around with their Nanny though and get enough exercise during the day.

And teaching 5-6 year olds is completely different to being in sole charge of a toddler all day.

Surely you can see that?

If you Google endometriosis and obesity, plus pulmonary nodules and obesity you'll get similar studies.

Iron deficiency anaemia and obesity link

Asthma link. Not actually steroid related but due to airway inflammation.

If you were in a wheelchair then, it must have been hard.
Pushing prams around whilst in a wheelchair must be very difficult.

@TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis was it a recent hip replacement? I’ve had both done and look after a 4 month old and a 3 year old every week, I really hope their mum isn’t worrying. I had to take 6 weeks off looking after the 3 year old after each operation, she was around 8-9 months when I had my first one done and just over a year when I had the second one done but after the first few weeks were past, I was finally fully mobile and pain free for the first time in years.

I hope I don’t sound nasty by asking if it was a recent replacement, I’m just hoping the mum of those little ones isn’t secretly worried about me looking after them! I know everyone has different experiences with hip replacements though and not everyone goes back to how they were before the problems started.

I wonder how I managed with my own children 🤔