AIBU to think these people need to raise their expectations in life?

[Sarjest]

DH often teases me for being a pushy parent but this is stratospheric. It’s an advert for personal tutor for pre-schoolers. Can anyone top it?

eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tes.com%2Fjobs%2Fvacancy%2Fprivate-tutor-travelling-tra-0718-likely-home-counties-with-significant-international-travel-1108543&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cceb4ae39831f47fdd65208d625370df0%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636737315713731014&sdata=z8Ebwo3%2Fx731qZAzIv0IH1G7QhLaDq7iYc7%2Bg8pXVv4%3D&reserved=0

Is it real?

[Sarjest]

www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/private-tutor-travelling-tra-0718-likely-home-counties-with-significant-international-travel-1108543

That’s a neater link!

[Flashingbeacon]

Dammit I can speak fluent (or any) Arabic otherwise I would be kissing my own family goodbye. Sounds wonderful.
Can you imagine how demanding that would be?! Not sure how to demonstrate they were not ahead of their peers should they enter school at some point.

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Not asking for much, are they?

[Iwasjustabouttosaythat]

They obviously want to homeschool their children while travelling the world but they don’t have the capacity to do it themselves. They want someone who can provide a preschool curriculum on the fly. You make it sound like they’re pushy parents when they sound like the exact opposite. I would have much preferred a tailored preschool program while I travelled the world and had fun rather than going to the same boring building with the same boring teachers and kids every day. These kids sound really lucky.

[deptfordgirl]

Oh my goodness. It's well paid but sounds an possible job! Love the robotics and martial arts training for 2 year old! Wow.

[BalloonSlayer]

There was a similar thread when Gwyneth paltrow advertused for a nanny.

Someone pointed out that the situation was likely to be that they already had a nanny/tutor, needed a work permit for them, but would have to be able to prove that they would not be able to employ anyone from the country in question to do the job instead. Easiest way to do that is to describe the existing nanny/tutor's skills in a wildly over-exaggerated way as the requirements for the job and voila! No applicants. One work permit on its way.

[MrsStrowman]

I'm not sure if I want this job or the life of those children!

[TooTrueToBeGood]

Teaching a 2 and 4 year-old:

1. Tech, coding, AI, robotics

Uhm, OK. Maybe start with play-doh and stickle-bricks first though.

[MrsMozart]

Depending on which countries they end up in they won't always get to home ed.

I wonder what the parents will be doing whilst the Tutor provides all this stimulating education.

[Sarjest]

I don’t get the forty hours a week. If you’re travelling the world you wouldn’t say “That’s me finished - I’m clocking off now” (in Arabic, of course) if you wanted to star gaze...

[QueenOfTheAndals]

I'm sure it's a lot more than 40 hours per week. The section about days off is quite telling!

[ButchyRestingFace]

£90,000 a month would hardly be enough to entice me to put up with what those parents are likely to be like. 🙈

[tinytemper66]

Hilarious 😂

[megletthesecond]

That's interesting about the work permit.
I remember the Paltrow/Martin add. It was nuts.

[tinytemper66]

Gregarious 😆

[ButchyRestingFace]

Does anyone have a linky for the Consciously Uncoupled duo's ad? I would be so terribly grateful.

[EggSurprise]

I don't think that sounds too bad, actually. If you are very rich international nomads, why not have someone who can home-ed your children really well, and cover all kinds of fields?

The only bit that really makes me boggle is the bit where the tutor is supposed to arrange play dates wherever the family is in the world. I'm trying to imagine teaching the children robotics and Mandarin and Tai Chi while frantically thinking 'It's Tuesday! We're in Singapore/LA/Toronto! Must find some unknown children to come round!'

There's a nanny for a ME minor royal (I think) family on Mn sometimes, posting about whether she should continue in this incredibly well-paid job that leaves her zero time for any kind of life, let alone meet a partner and settle down, or quit.

Her situation sounds much odder, though, in that she's a nanny, rather than a tutor, but she's the Executive Head Nanny, with a team of comparatively badly-paid under-nannies beneath her, and her job is managing the other nannies and the children's timetable etc.

[PiperPublickOccurrences]

Poor kids.

[AnotherDayAnotherDollarRight]

'I wonder what the parents will be doing whilst the Tutor provides all this stimulating education.'

Working? Some peope do you know, and strangely the ones that do tend to need some form of childcare for their pre-school children.

Tbh if you added the words 'age appropriate' it wouldn't seem so outlandish. Everything on their list is perfectly do-able in an age appropriate way.
Tech and AI - any number of on-line kids activities, or robotic toys
Environment - nature walks, rock pooling
etc
Not difficult
Working unspecified hours at the will of the employer would be the trying though. That woud put me off.

[lifetothefull]

How fast can I learn arabic?

[QueenOfTheAndals]

It gets even odder when you read the full ad that the one in the OP linked to.
https://www.tutors-international.net/advert/443

[DishranawaywiththeSpoon]

Hmmm..do you think they will notice if I just use Google translate? Not sure how I'm going to spend my 90k a get a though with everything they are paying for!

[DishranawaywiththeSpoon]

I like the idea of a gregarious 2 year old

[mumsiedarlingrevolta]

a google search found this:
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1393509/Are-Gwyneth-Paltrow-Chris-Martin-advertising-60k-year-multilingual-tutor.html