To think this dream job is just sad.

Sounds like the job of a parent to me (except the salary that it!) I wonder what on earth the real parents are up to

Madness, I'm surprised it's even advertised.

Are they going to keep the younger child separate from the older one, given that the older one has already been corrupted?

This raises a question as to why these people have children in the first place?

It reads like something from Harry Potter: a pisstake of what some high net worth people think they need to mould their children into due to pressure to fit the mould. “English gentleman” indeed.

Nauseating and I feel for the kid.

No need to be racist

Be reassured that England has no lack of rich social climbers.

Yes, this ad sounds foreign, because of the insistance on culture, but there's no shortage of rich English or British "entitled" social climbing parents in this country. Some famously very successful in their social climb.

Why "entitled" by the way?

Setting aside any debate on the way to do it, what's wrong with using what resources you have to give what you think are the best chances and life to your kids? That's what normal parents do everyday, that's why we all move to the best location we can, that's why top schools are over-subscribed, that's even why private schools and Universities get flooded by application the minute the current princes are said to attend, from William and Harry to now George, Charlotte and Louis for people who are into that kind of things and put the Royal Family on some pedestal.

I’m tempted to apply for the job - pay is great and I’d be a great role model 😁.
Alas I’m Welsh, so probably not what they’re looking for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I'd go and play with a one year old for that salary! I could hedge it round with plenty of blurb to fit their brief. I can blag with the best of them!

Poor little bugger .......

They can hang out with me and my one year old if they want. He enjoys putting things into the washing machine and pulling them out. We could alter that to make it tweeds and cricket whites for full English effect.

My one year old already says “Da” which is Russian for ‘yes’ and Mandarin for ‘big’ so I feel he’s already very sophisticated.

Crikey. I’m feeling the pressure for the poor sod already.

Desperate for their child to join a club that no amount of money can buy. (Why anyone would want to be in that club is entirely beyond me but that’s bedside the point). It reminds me a bit of Al Fayed’s obsession with the royal family (odious man that he was), but it didn’t matter how rich he was and how close he got to certain individuals- he was never accepted. This family will spend their life chasing a dream, and an ‘idea’ of a life, instead of enjoying very privileged one they already have- and their children will be all the poorer for it.

This is exactly how Mohamed al Fayed tried to bring up Dodi, to elevate his family into English society. It seems extreme to us, but for someone desperate to fit into high society it probably makes sense.

WTF! The self-hatred directed at their own culture and clearly viewing it as lesser is really sad.

Yup.

And I imagine the nanny will be dealing with that.

I wonder how much the nanny is being paid. Plus the car and driver which will be provided for excursions.

The money flying around is just insane.

(I also think there is not a hope in hell of whoever they employ living up to their expectations).

Jeez it sounds like the start of the sort of novel that gets made into a Netflix series. Definitely with a trigger warning for 'extreme graphic violence' as I expect this is how it will end.

You forgot about giving them an iPad to play with or shoving in front of the telly with a bag of stinky crisps while you have your nails and eyelashes done.
We could job share so kid gets a balance with my estuary accent

I was thinking Middle Eastern royal family.

Those parents sound insufferable

£180k for 5 hours a day!! Wow! Imagine being so rich, you can afford this and a nanny and a driver and probably a cook etc. Absolutely insane wealth.

Sadly, they wouldn’t want me. I didn’t go to private school and I don’t have a RP accent so they wouldn’t want this little toddler exposed to someone like me 😆

This poor little boy. All these expectations on him. Hope his older brother is ok!

Yes this is it, new money keen to be accepted by UK racists.

I was thinking Middle Eastern royal family.

I was laughing reading it, it can't be real can it? They've given up on the 5 year old, seems he must have got in with the wrong crowd 😆, he's been mixing with new money rather than aristocracy and royalty. The whole thing is just mind boggling, I imagine these children will be in therapy for many many years to come, but at least they will have plenty of money to pay for it I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️.

I don't think so, MN has a strong community of classic cultural loving parents and there is that show for kids Horrible Histories that makes history more accessible. The language in the advert goes beyond extra tutoring to get into a grammar school or a tough private school. It's like one of those insane threads we get once or twice a year, usually from rich, entitled, foreigner parents new to the UK and keen to assemble their children and use them to social climb.

Seriously? You don't see anything wrong? Bizarre

On MN, where interesting a child in Greek Mythology is called "pretentious horseshit", you can guess how that kind of advert will be read 😂

I thought Hong Kong parents when I read it.
Do they realise that there are lower class quintessentially English experiences and expressions as well? They sound absolutely intolerable if it's a genuine advert. I doubt Social Services will be interested in emotional abuse by rich parents, they sound awful.