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IMHO some people have gone completley batty

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 10:25

IMHO some people have gone batty

Some of the mad ideas I have read on here in last couple of days

Bonkerz the lot of them

How they treat their nannies or au pairs

They work long hours for not much pay.

There are some very fair parents who are working hard AND treat their au pair with

RESPECT

KINDNESS

But others

who spend all their time finding something to moan about.........

Why can they not treat them the same way they would like their DD to be treated if she wanted to become an au pair?

Would they want their DD to work in same circumstances?

LOOKING AFTER CHILDREN IS THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD

THEY ARE OUR FUTURE

It is also the best job in the world and the most fun,

seeing their faces when they have completed a jigsaw puzzle

learnt how to build a tower with 3 bricks

Please remember to treat others as you would like to be treated

.......

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UKMickey · 22/04/2005 00:19

Not 100% what this thread is all about but parts that has interested me is Ameriscot2005.
To a point I agree what you have said...doesn't take rocket science to access a childcare course or to most carers pass it to. One can have all qualifications under the sun...but it is the personality & vocation that is also needed.

Most nurse practioners etc (including the name nannies) that I know are was called NNEB, BA Hons & to top it off with PGCE. Most of my aquaintences (nannies) started & graduated their degrees in either Law or medicine,topped off with either masters degree or PGCE.

Most professional nannies do actually have a degree ++. (though indeed most people do I'm sure in other professions Mummies & Daddies to)

Some of us oldies(nannies etc) as we rank up further the ladders of our career we tend to get a little more exspensive..some of us also have fine lifestyles..some of us also came from a previlaged background where our parents wanted us to have a degree etc to fall back(is often the comment).

What it all boils down to is that all/most families can only afford certain salaries thats life....Regardless what a family is paying for their carer/childcare all children deserve the best care, saftey etc just because someone has low pay that doesn't allow them to abuse a child.

There are all types of salaries out there & obviously all standards of childcarers. Some jolly expensive others are not.

Some nannies I know who have started on a low salary others on £100,000.00 per annum.
Myself being an expensive nanny through salary raises throughout my career but I would always treat my charges the same if I was only being paid £1hr

Aimsmum · 21/04/2005 23:46

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mishmash · 21/04/2005 23:44

PARENTS RULE
No matter what anyone thinks
We are the anchor
and always will be

sorry for gaps - but what is good for the goose

mishmash · 21/04/2005 23:43

To be totally honest - I am the most important person in my kids lives - SWITCH THINGS AROUND FOR A MINUTE - I am the one who is there when they are sick, when they are sad, when they are let down, when they are bullied, when they achieve something special, when they make their own stab at new words, when they ask ?????, when they are ecstatic over something - sorry but the childcare is secondary - they will always jump to me first

Bozza · 21/04/2005 21:57

And me bk.

Heathcliffscathy · 21/04/2005 21:55

errrr....whilst i have a distinct dislike for overuse of emoticons, i have to say that i think that nannies/childminders/aupairs and teachers play an crucial formative role in how a child develops...i think we live in a totally upsidedown and nonsensical world that values the ability to make money far more than the ability to help a young human being become and adult. and i believe strongly that until we change that and start to value those roles/jobs and the job of parenting in monetary terms our world will be as f*cked as it is.

bossykate · 21/04/2005 21:17

skeptic, agree with you, especially "thinly veiled attack on one or two m'netters"...

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 18:56

SmileSmile

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HappyMumof2 · 21/04/2005 18:55

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 18:54

LEMON SQUASH obviously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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HappyMumof2 · 21/04/2005 18:53

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 18:48

TESCO WHOLE LEMON SQUASH with no added sugar

Go on give it a go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ADD WATER to TASTE

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 18:45

I am sorry Twiglett

This LEMON SQUASH and the excitement makes me get carried away

I have to go and get ready now so will leave you in peace for a while anyway.

I LOVE YOU ALL esp those who "get" me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Blu · 21/04/2005 18:42

Can you reveal the recipe for your 'lemon squash' RTKM?

Twiglett · 21/04/2005 18:41

kanga

your posts are becoming increasingly difficult to read

cos I like reading your posts I for one would love it if you could cut down on the smileys and spacing a little please

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 18:34

Parents are included in the list of influences on the children

This has been a DEFFO BRILL Thread and now I hope you are all high on

LEMON SQUASH

If not WHY NOT??????

IMHO it gives a deffo brill slant on life

GO ON TRY IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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mishmash · 21/04/2005 18:03

You ladies have been busy today. LOL Started reading this thread then thought I had skipped into another by mistake, it came round again and then went totally off the wall again.

Don't understand the point of the majority of it.

Childminders, nanny's, aupairs, teachers - don't play the major role in how your child turns out - it is the parents and the morals, beliefs, nurturing that is instilled by the parents that is the most important. Yes they play a role but not the major one.

And we are entitled to a moan every now and then. Life would be dull if we were all perfect

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 17:08

Deffo brill

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JoolsToo · 21/04/2005 17:07

and a cricket fiend?

cod · 21/04/2005 17:06

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 17:06

How old is he? DS with the PJs

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JoolsToo · 21/04/2005 17:06

'nicked'?

do you know any good magistrates?

cod · 21/04/2005 17:04

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RTKangaMummy · 21/04/2005 17:03

@ COD DS

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