To think this dream job is just sad.

I actually do think this is a spoof advert

I get the feeling that this is a fly on the wall comedy sketch with hidden cameras

Either that or parents who should never have had children if they don’t want to look after their children or learn their personalities and their likes and dislikes

No parent can be that ignorant of child rearing (especially 2nd time parents)

If this is a real advert then maybe the parents should start by looking at themselves

They essentially want a child to be part of the English Landed Gentry whilst living in North London
They are not willing to change their own lifestyle and make the first move themselves by buying a country estate and changing to a career in farming and country pursuits and swapping designer suits and dresses for jeans and wellies and getting to know their ds’s

I’m assuming child number 1 failed their grade 1 piano and isn’t the highest batter at softball cricket and it just isn’t good enough, Horatio, how will you ever be an English gentleman if you don’t get this right!

what a weird, desperate advert. I would be so embarrassed putting that ad out!

This reads like the job description Jacob Rees Mogg's nanny would have had
It's absolutely tragic, that poor child

I know a lot of old boys from some of the schools they aspire to

I also know that at least one of the schools mentioned did have a company who came in for a week or two and who gave all the boys personality and careers tests and then wrote to the parents to give them the results of what career their child would be best pursuing given the results of the tests and interviews.

I know that one of these boys was given what he thought was a completely ridiculous career path and everyone (including the boy) fell about laughing. Fast forward 30 years and the boy is now a world renown expert in this field

Dh’s parent went against what the results of the testing said and lied to Dh as the career given in pils eyes was beneath what they wanted.
Dh really struggled with what he was told and was never as successful in his career as he would have been had he pursued the career he was supposed to do.
He would keep referring back to what he thought the test results said and could see everyone else doing something that they had an aptitude for.

I wonder what these parents would do if they were in a similar position to in laws and the career was not what they would choose for their ds

Well you only have to look at Prince Harry to see all the privilege and education in the world is not necessarily going to make you academically bright.

I really feel sorry for those kids.

You didn’t read the entire job spec then?

I’m chuckling at the idea of a one-year-old making a formal visit to a rowing club…

I provided exactly this for all my kids (starting from birth no less!) They've gone on to one of the most academically selective schools in the country. I should have charged their dad more (I will at least tell him to stop moaning about the state of the house).

One huge difference, though, was that my own kids had my very academic DNA. I'm genuinely curious as to what sort of result I could have got out of a less academically inclined child. (What's that you say? He's a real live human being, not just a science experiment? Bloody ethics committees are determined to ruin all experiments on young children....)

Netflix Christmas movie? Dan the Croydon scaffolder falls in love with the Norland nanny during a romantic montage where the two of them accompany the child to a succession of famous London museums and the Christmas lights at Kew. (There's a comic scene where Dan offers to take him to Winter Wonderland and the family reacts in horror at the idea of all those plebs, nearly blowing his cover.)

Oh please do. It’ll be fascinating to see how far you get.

What if the child in question grows up and wants to be an English Lady

From beyond the grave?

You never know, the little English gentleman-in-training might meet the blue-blood love of his life in the soft play area at Lord's 😂

A driver and car will be provided for excursions! Do they mean a driver or a body guard. I would want danger money if there is any possibility of a kidnap attempt😧

And only four weeks holiday. Uhhuh. I am ripping up my application.

Yes, they are breaking the upper-class code of inherited superiority. It's about breeding not social climbing. Rishi Sunak comes to mind.

Ok Dear 😁, Co-habiting with, is that better.

That has to be spoof. I fully believe that there are parents like that out there but surely they wouldn't be that obvious?

Imagine having all that money and using to try and buy your way into the same room as Prince Andrew and the like. Why not start a charity or something? Part of me hopes a scammer sees the advert and rocks up as Rupert from Chelsea with a posh accent and tweed suit to land the job. Then years later he turns out to be Dan, a scaffolder from Croydon that hired a voice coach and decided to chance his arm. Imagine the Netflix documentary!

Sidebar, but it is actually too late to avoid cultural bias. Babies develop a preference for caregivers of their own race at around 9m old.

That kid only has to marry Princess Charlotte (sounds like it's a boy) and they're in. Or one of the less public royals or upper class members of that "club".

Or at worst, even if they don't get accepted by marriage, if not them, their own child will be in if they stick to the right environment.

LIke it or not, there are examples everywhere, you just need the right connection s. It's the only criteria for choosing a private school for some people!

That poor child.

Exactly, no longer married, like the PP said.

That kid would so run away at 18 and join a band.

1986 🤔

(Divorced in 1996)

Yes I also thought it was spoof at first! Most likely drafted by a public school boy. Imagine a string of Etonians and Harrowians studying Early Years instead of PPE. Who needs to aspire to be Prime Minister if you can get paid more on a 5 hour work schedule and party on the side. The only thing missing is the Westminster wine cellar.

Married? When did that happen?