To think this dream job is just sad.

There will probably be an advert for a therapist for the children in a few years time.

Oh how the other half lives. The stuff individually is not too bad, outside of the comment about the 5yo. But together with the tone and adjectives it makes it sound really messed up.

I have a feeling nobody will be good enough. They'll hire and fire a lot. 1yo are all the same. No matter on money and pedigree. The parents will he disappointed if the child likes Peppa and blame the tutor. If the child wants to play with cars instead of polo, tutors fault.

Completely forgot about that experience. With that much disposable income they will probably have a cinema room so we can put Peppa pig on the cinema screen followed by paw patrol so they have experience or multiple different types of screen time. After all, TV screen time is different screen time to iPad screen time.

I am an early years eacher, but wouldnt be suitable. I would encourage too much learning through play. My accent would not be good enough either .

But, if they can afford that , then hopefully they will have money for his (and especially his sibling's therapy later on )

You just know they are going to be right bastards to work for and the nanny will want to twat you for stepping her toes.

If that poor little bugger hasn’t got his PhD by 2 years old, the mug taking on this job will mysteriously fall out a window.

Do it and report back! 😆

Expect the Nanny does 3pm onwards, who no doubt was also very carefully selected to be quintessentially English.

I just realised both parents are from a different culture. I was confused how they can cultivate bicultural environment if they libe in england and needs the most English person ever to be the tutor

I actually find this really weird. Could it be fake ? If not , are they right in the head ?

They obviously know nothing about child development and what's really important at this stage of child development. Poor child.

I didn't see the other thread either @Cucy

Also thought Chinese parents.

They basically want to raise a Jacob Rhys Mogg.

This job would be a nightmare. I also wonder how anyone with early years experience would also tick all the other boxes.

they’ve also decided that this kid will like cricket and rugby- poor child can’t even choose their own hobbies.

Every single thing in that advert goes against all studies into what actually benefits a child’s development.

@Thepeopleversuswork Agreed. No-one is jealous. 🙄 Most people are just gobsmacked that anyone would want to do this to a child.

Fuck me. And I thought I had seen it all!

@ThisGentleRaven

I don't really care about them one way or another, they from a different world than mine, but I find some of the posts on this thread very hypocritical - and posters sounding more jealous than anything.

That's a real stretch. What this job ad describes is an environment where all the child's education is geared towards enabling him/her to fit into a particular world which he hasn't come from (and which only really exists in public imagination, not in reality).

There's nothing wrong with assimilation and aspiration but training a child to basically become two-dimensional checklist of what British privilege looks like suggests a very one-track approach to child-rearing. A child reared like this will feel that he or she has "failed" if he or she doesn't exactly match up to the expectations of this world. It's very high pressure, very binary and very lacking in nuance or empathy.

I don't think its hypocritical to point out that this isn't an environment which promotes much individuality or free thinking (or care). And I'm certainly not jealous: honestly I can't think of anything worse.

It's possible to think that other people's aspirations are off-key and self-defeating without being racist or hypocritical.

YABU to start a thread about a thread, what’s the point?

Ugh, those poor kids. Doesn't sound like they'll ever get a chance to really be children, it's all about what the parents want. Just goes to show money is no assurance of decent parenting.

I'm not angry I just think it's cringe-worthy and internalised racism on their own culture. They will never be fully accepted by the people they're hoping to rub shoulders with eg Al Fayed. The UK is not like other countries. I actually think they might go further by being more proud of their own cultural heritage.

he’s going to grow up an absolute knob

You are taking everything so personally, no need to turn it around.

And speaking of Kate Middleton, let's pretend that money to push her in the right circles and the right schools and places didn't have anything to do with her "marriage", nothing at all, shall we 😂

But at least she was British, so that's all that matters, "British and English culture" remain safe, is that it?

They are looking for a young Rory Stewart 😂

How gutted would you be that you fit all the criteria but you had a regional accent!

The family sound like a PITA - they obviously are trying to buy into the British class system - they'd be better just buying a country estate and getting them playing polo and shooting. Also getting them signed up for a posh prep school.

I wonder what their parents actually do and why they think it's all necessary?

I do know a few landed gentry and it's all outdoors activities, having a nanny and posh schools (not necessarily the schools for the very bright like the ones listed on the job description)