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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To fire my nanny?

74 replies

AnneNonimousLetterToSanta · 31/12/2012 16:32

I am a widower, and a single father to 7 children. Since my wife died I have employed various nannies to help me handle this responsibility. They never seem to last long...

My current nanny has been dressing my children up in rags, answering back, and teaching them god awful songs to sing to my new gorgeous girlfriend. She has also been hiding my eldest DD's love affair with a racist boy from me.

WIBU to send her back to the convent we got her from?

TIA

Captain

OP posts:
StanleyLambchop · 31/12/2012 17:40

And stop blowing that bloody whistle!!!

dequoisagitil · 31/12/2012 17:42

Fire the silly songstress Grin.

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 31/12/2012 17:44

on a separate issue, do you know any other songs except ones about small white flowers?? its getting a bit samey

whoneedssleepanyway · 31/12/2012 17:46

Sounds like it is time to say so long farewell auf wiedersehn goodbye

manicbmc · 31/12/2012 17:49

And can you get Gretel's adenoids done please and tell her to mime.

Binkyridesagain · 31/12/2012 17:49

Do you know she thinks the hills are alive?

Nancy66 · 31/12/2012 17:54

I also reckons she is knocking off Uncle Max...have you seen the way those two look at each other?

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 31/12/2012 18:01

and there's this lovely baroness I know..

she'd make a super mum.

MichaelaS · 31/12/2012 18:03

i have no advice on your nanny, but i hear you're throwing a spectacular party soon, a sort of anti fascist fundraiser? please can i come? i'm very good at drinking champagne and slagging off the nazis.

purplewithred · 31/12/2012 18:04

The kids love he, she works all the hours god sends and she believes in cheap/free entertainment for kids. Marry her and you'll get extra benefits and not even have to pay her any more!

LeeCoakley · 31/12/2012 18:04

Can I shag you?

NonnoMum · 31/12/2012 18:05

Did you get her from a reputable agency? Or did you just contact the local nunnery?
Does she have any skills she could offer? Is she musical in any way?

I don't think you'd have any MIL trouble somehow.

BTW watch out for your eldest girl. I think she should let her try a sip of champagne. She is 17 FGS!

Tee2072Thing · 31/12/2012 18:09

Watch out for that Rolf, he is well aware your oldest is 16 going on 17.

StanleyLambchop · 31/12/2012 18:11

Can I offer you a bit of advice? When you find yourself having to flee Salzburg in a hurry to escape the Nazis, don't go over the mountains. You will find yourself in Germany, not Switzerland. You should know by now that Salzburg is close to the German border !! (or ask your Governess, she has spent alot of time up them mountains!!)

SarahStratton · 31/12/2012 18:17

High on the hills lives a lonely goatherd, possibly she'd be happier with his carefree lifestyle.

meMillyme · 31/12/2012 18:18

YABU; you loved her from the moment she sat on that pinecone.

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 31/12/2012 18:18

I do sense you are feeling concerned and worried about all this.

How do you feel about whiskers on kittens?

Hesterton · 31/12/2012 18:23

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ElphabaTheGreen · 31/12/2012 18:29

YABU

She should only be looking after six of your children as your oldest definitely doesn't need a governess.

DonderandBlitzen · 31/12/2012 18:40

Hmm. She does sound like a bit of a flibbertigibbet

ReindeerHooves · 31/12/2012 18:45

Sack her. Give me the job. I would lock the children in a small room so they couldn't do anything common or noisy and take you outside to that lovely summer house and do unspeakably filthy things to you.

I may or may not be ovulating

ShiftyFades · 31/12/2012 18:56

Yabu. Who else would teach your children to sing and cycle at the same time? It's a rare talent and probably useful Confused

Doe a deer...

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 31/12/2012 19:05

...a female deer.

TheFallenNinja · 31/12/2012 19:14

Pisser Grin

FeistyLass · 31/12/2012 19:19

YANBU, do you know how she treats dog bites and bee stings?! I don't think she's qualified at all.