IMHO some people have gone completley batty

[RTKangaMummy]

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

.......

Is is not that they are the same it is that until school age children are looked after by:

Parents
nannies
au pairs
childminders
nurseries
grandparents etc

When they get to school they are being guided by

Teachers etc.

So please show respect to all of them

You get the respect you earn, RTKM, and it goes both ways.

I suspect that a brain surgeon or top politician is much more likely to be influenced by their genes, their relationships with their parents, and university & school teachers than they are by their nannies.

I would say that the attitudes they were exposed to were far more important than building a small tower of bricks (which they do without any teaching anyway).

i wondered that too, skeptic.

skeptic's post of 3.51

teachers need to earn respect like anyone else. they dont automatically get it just cos they are a bloody teacher im sorry

And I'm going to be heading down the same road if I see any more of those smilies.

Yes ok I admit I have been drinking all day today

LEMON SQUASH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lets all retire to the bar. A nice chrisp Sauvignon Blanc would be nice. This thread has been going on so long yawn and RTK just isn't making sense to me at all. Come on the bar is empty and the first round is on me.

Yes, earning respect is good idea

Reading between the smilies, I think it started off as a thinly veiled personal attack against one or two other m'netters. It is pointless otherwise to talk in hypotheticals.

I agree that most people treat their staff fairly and with respect. FGS, if you are going to have someone look after your child, you have to at least like them, and when you genuinely like someone, respect is very easy. It's much harder to respect staff who cheat on you, deliberately go against your wishes, etc.

Thank God this board doesn't have the facilities for animated gifs, marquées, flashing smilies etc.

so what about other people we rely on? nurses? shoe fitters in clarks etc? they do important jobs too. do you respect them? no you dont

just teachers

oh teachers are fantastic

all hail the teacher

yes it looks 'stuck up'

No RESPECT KS . Now I am bloody using these little faces. Going back to the bar, but it is really quiet there. It is a super pub so theres room for everyone. Party!

No one had to post on this thread did they?

I said at the beginning it was me and my humble opinion

Am just high on LEMON SQUASH

Should have goverment health warning shouldn't it?

I only drink lemon squash though watership

It was hardly a humble opinion, though. Quite the opposite.

IMO or IMHO

what is an H between friends

Nailpolish is right, being a teacher doesn't mean you should automatically get respect - like any job, there are those who frankly don't deserve it!

But I also think that implying all teachers are tossers (presumably a la "those that can, do; those that can't, teach") is not fair, and I think that is what Donnie was saying happened on a different thread...of course respect has to be earned, in all walks of life.