WWYD re nanny

I agree with Ulwila

not for the first time

Well I havn't read the whole thread but wanted to add my opinion.

I think this was perfectly reasonable. As others have said this WAS NOT Controlled crying and if DD is 4 then she is certinaly capable of playing up!

4x of checking and then letting them cry/whine for up to 15 minutes before falling asleep is what I would expect to do. I'd only be upset If I felt that the babysitter had fibbed and there was no checking before letting DD cry, or that it was actulaly longer than 10 mins! But then if you don't trust your babysitter why on earth are they with your children?

I loved the reference to Mary Poppins btw, can you really imagine Mary Poppins (a fairly traditional and strict nanny) to allow children to play up at bedtime?

Well just think, if there were no slaves one could employ to 'wipe arses' then one would have to look after one's kids one's bloody self

And that would never do.

I'm with you "Mrs Rusty Legs"

I think she needs a good slap. But this thread...as they say in Baaaarkshoire where I grew up, Oi larfed Oi did, Oi larfed till Oi nearly peed oi drawers. And when Oi peed oi drawers oi legs went rusty...

Norland nanny, 4 kids and not working, my arse. Now, dahling, if it had been a slattern from Slovenia, one could understand, but a Norland nanny, ho no.

No sign of her coming back here to defend the indefensible then....

I dont think i have a problem in people having nannies if thats what they choose, after all i am a childminder and earn my money from working parents. but i do have a problem with the attitude HD has towards her nanny, as i have said on an earlier post its almost a servant/master attitude
I have worked with children for 16 years as a nanny, mothers help, pre school worker, nursery nurse, deputy manager of a nursery, and now a mum and childminder. I think that to describe my profession as nothing more than wiping bums is an insult.
I tried to be helpful and polite at the very beginning of this thread (was the first to post after op) but how can you help when there is an attitude like that?

Of course they arent hard work if you pass them over.

PMSL at that post on other thread!!! Wish I didn't have to go and pick the kids up from school. Oh well, will be catching up with this later!!

HD doesn't actually make it clear whether the poor girl in question is her full time nanny or a babysitter who happens to be a qualified nanny...

As for large families not being hard work ROFLMAO!

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she's pg too? - another child on the way

sorry, i don't know how to do links - but i saw this and rolf. hd commenting on how large families aren't hard work!!!! cause they're not when you don't actually parent them yourself...

By HelloDolly on Sunday, 25 June, 2006 9:17:12 AMWell I'm 30 and on the verge of having number 4, large families aren't as much hard work as people make out. My children are quite close together and spend hours playing together and are the best of friends.
I think you have to look at the finances too and decide if you can give a good quality of life to all three children and if so go for it, you'll never regret having a baby.

HelloDolly, tried to CAT you, but you aren't accepting them. I hope you come back. You are welcome to CAT me if you like.

Greensleeves-I think that many nannies come accross their fair share of HD types.
Personally I genuinely love my nanny as much as she genuinely loves my dd.
I know that she would never let any harm come to her and to be honest,whilst I started with some basic ground rules, it really is a partnership now and I totally trust her to make decisions about dd when I am not around (ok so not life or death stuff)
I couldn't/wouldn't leave dd with someone I didn't trust in this way.
I really feel for HD's nanny-I can't imagine what she must be like as an employer.

LOL no... she called ME a prat! lol

its nice to see that most otehrs dont agree though.... my opinion of her is not very high anyway!

Thankfully i know of far more employers who respect their nannies and treat them nicely... including all my bosses!

Can i just point out, if you read my post, i was in fact, being a bit rude. I couldnt help myself because the OP seemed to place herself above general advice/conversation. I went for shock tactics. It may have worked. Although I note that HelloDolly did not call me specifically, a prat.

I hope that clarifies the situation.

oh, just did a search for her and nothing today that I could see?

assuming hellodolly and HelloDolly are the same person, she is still around loonytune..

ive just had a bit of a look through this thread..
i thought people had moved on in recent years!!

I used to encounter people like this when I was working as a temp after I left uni - I did audio typing and data entry and various other temp office jobs. Some of the more old-fashioned outfits I worked in were shocking. There was one bloke who insisted on being addressed as "Mr XXX" by me but called me by an abbreviated version of my Christian name in a really patronizing way. He asked me if I wouldn't mind wearing a skirt to work as he felt it looked "smarter" than trousers There was another one who used to interrupt me when I was working every twenty minutes or so, to order me to "do another round of teas and coffees" for him and his horrible wife and son (family firm - shudder). I ended up telling him it wasn't my job to make him drinks, I accepted the job as an audio typist, not a maidservant. He said "I pay for you, you do whatever I tell you to do!". I replied "No, you pay for my fingers, my ears and one of my feet. You couldn't afford the rest of me."

Anyway, I digress . But I despise people who have this constant need to assert their superiority by treating other people like dirt. I bet most nannies come across the occasional rude egomaniacal snob.

PLEASE COME BACK!!!

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TBF perhaps she phrased it badly. I would like to understand where's she coming from because TBH I don't right now.

Yeah

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!! hehe