To think this dream job is just sad.

[Cucy]

MN posted a link with a ‘dream job’ so of course I clicked it and when I saw the insane salary I read on.

It just made me so sad.

It feels like they’ve had children just to moulded them into what they think is the perfect person.

They waited too long for the 5yo, so now they’re starting on the 1yo.

Its like something out if a movie where babies are bred and moulded into a certain design.

Why not let kids be kids and give them support and opportunities but let them choose their own path.

AIBU to feel so sorry for kids like this?

www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/private-tutor-london-england-oxfordshire-2256768

Between 10 and 3 isn’t going to leave much time for much around lunch and napping.

Honestly, anyone who takes this job for the salary is a sell-out. They cannot call themselves an early years professional based on the job description because they would be complicit in a very privileged form of child neglect.

These parents seem to be buying what comes naturally/free to mixed marriage families (parents of different ethnicities and speaking different languages where neither of the parents is a native speaker of the other parent's language) with a strong academic background. I have always thought children from such families incredibly lucky, so I can only admire such opportunities. It is not sad at all, I think.

This job in centered around immersion into English life at the upper level and the employer is most likely from East Asia, where 'learning' starts very early. Who are we to judge cultural differences and preferences?

I found it strange that they kept referring to him as 'the boy'.

Wow. Half tempted to apply for this job. Doubt if get it what with my Northern accent and I might be a bit rough for the client.

However, I feel I could contribute greatly to their absorption of British Culture and I think I can be very creative.

To expand culinary horizons- I'd take the kid to Greggs for a sausage roll and on that salary we could possibly stretch to a steak bake. We could go to a greasy spoon for breakfast and if we are lucky and pick a decent one we might be able to interact with multiple tradespeople.

In order to expose the child to different parts of British culture we could take a walk down our absolutely trashed and depressing high street and observe the homeless, drug addicts and chavs. A Saturday afternoon out at wetherspoons then on to a sport's bar pub when the football is on.

To help with musical horizons my plan is to take them to the footy (go see one of those teams with great football chants to and covers the 'western composers' element). No one more inventive than footy fans when it comes to composing chants about the opposing team. Also I notice football is not on the list of approved sports but is very much part of British culture.

Feel like we should also get a visit into a soft play in somewhere. Preferably in the middle of towards the end of the 6 weeks school holidays when the children all turn into feral beings and all the parents sit on their phone "having a break" for the entire session whilst their "darlings" run feral.

What a crazy world. So, I'm assuming, non English parents want to raise their child to be "quintessentially" English. Makes you wonder if they have hopes for eventual marriage into the royal family or very upper landed gentry at the very least. Clearly their child becoming moulded into exactly who they want them to be is far more important than the child being an individual.

But those will never be everyday experiences in that child’s life , they don’t need to know about that.

suppose what is interesting when you read all the uk bashing threads is that for some rich people its still extremely aspirational.

can someone apply and tell us where the family are from?!

Just skimmed that and honestly I’m disgusted - it made my stomach turn.
Its a step away from eugenics.
I wonder if, should this genius child not reach the heights the “parents” hope for, they will sue? Perhaps there’s a clause on achievements required by 30??
Poor, poor children.

They don't want a nanny, but an "Early Years Specialist".... isn't that a well trained Nanny (thinking something like Norland?)

Nope, by the sounds of it they've already got one of them.

Yep me too. I waved my teen off on a week long school trip yesterday. He didnt even notice me waving frantically while he chatted to his mates on the coach! Im missing chubby 1 year old cuddles! He could sit on my lap at Lords!

It reads a bit like satire to me! How strange!!

He'll have the money for all the therapy when he's older at least.

My cousin grew up like this and she's the most neurotic person I know. Rich as shit though.

I’d take him to watch Charlton or Millwall play. Toughen him up a bit.

I used to work for a Chinese billionaire family living in London. I'd bet my house these people are from the same background.

That's what doesn't make sense! They've already got an employee whose job is to do all that.

Hideous but mostly feel sorry for their older child who they seemingly have disregarded already…

Clearly their child becoming moulded into exactly who they want them to be is far more important than the child being an individual.

I'm not disrespecting what you say, but individualism isn't encouraged in some Confucian based Asian cultures. In fact it is actively discouraged.

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.

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

Seriously? You don't see anything wrong? Bizarre

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.

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 was thinking Middle Eastern royal family.