Where can I find an EXPERIENCED travel nanny to fly London - Sydney - London?????????????????

[Georgiaplus1]

I'd rather not pay a recruitment agents fee, I've searched google, and still nothing......

I need an experience nanny who has the experience of entertaining my 2 year old son for the flight from London to Hong Kong (stay over night) then Hong Kong to Sydney - stay in Sydney for a month then back again. I'm a nervous wreck! I'll be on the flight too but can't stand the thought of my son not being happy or being able to run around.

I'll of course pay for the nanny's flight etc, does anyone know where I can find someone with experience without paying a recruitment fee?????

Thanks

gess - am so with you on this one -

Kerrymum - why does it matter? What is wrong with employing someone for entertainment?

Kerrymum originally implied that you are a crap parent if you don't look after your children all on your own for ever and ever amen

Well, if you're a crap parent, all the more reason to get in a professional I reckon. SOme people are good at keeping toddlers entertained, some less so. Only fair on all the other passengers to get the best available.

Really really can't see much of a difference btwn this and sticking kids in holiday clubs whilst on holiday.

Isn't that paying for someome to entertain your kids whilst you sip wine at the pool?

Is that so wrong?

In fact, on that rationale, its a MORE understandable use of childcare.

God this thread is weird.

If the childcare fairy were to grant me 24 hours of childcare to be used at any point in the next year and I was going to take a longhaul flight that year, there is no question - I'd use it for the flight. And people are criticising someone because she's going to Australia and wants someone to help out? Sounds damn sensible to me.

As for the 'I can do it so you should too' argument - well, children are all different. Some are entertainable, others aren't. (Kerry - given that your boys are G&T I'm guessing that they have pretty good attention spans - no way your ds1 can have got as far as he has without the ability to focus. Which not all kids have.)
We all parent in our own way. Have strengths and weaknesses. Nothing wrong with doing what we can and contracting out the bits we don't do so well.

How is this different to a babysitter?

So do you have a problem with kids in kids clubs whislt on holiday KM?

I think questioning the OPs parenting on the basis of 2 short posts is very very unfair.

Not exactly what I asked you. In theory, what do you think and does this differ from what the OP is proposing?

Hordes of pple put kids in kids clubs.

Sorry I thought you said you weren't playing competitive disability syndrome kerrymum? And if you think that ASD is 'behavioural issues' then it shows you know aboslutely fuck all about the condition. We don't go near planes & won't in the near future so I can't really stack up the what we have to do sob story to have a competition.

I don't really see how having help on a 24 hours flight is akin to failing to parent a child ffs. What a frankly weird idea. DS1 had several years of just me and no other main carer. DS3 has had loads of different carers. DS2 inbetween. TBH they're all pretty happy with no attachment issues. And they all now benefit from me having an extra pair of hands around the place & weirdly they like having fun people who come in and play with them whilst mummy loads the dishwasher....

Oh god this thread is turning me into a loon. OP I feel for you, not surprised you're shaking.

In your shoes I'd put the word out (try word of mouth) and tbh I wouldn;t worry too much about the experienced bit. If you could find a sensible Aussie wanting a trip back home you could be laughing. I've employed a lot of University students recently and have been impressed by their maturity, energy and reliability. If your trip coincides with a holiday season that may work.

PMSL Issy. Quite agree.

What is worse KM?-A toddler with a mother at the end of her tether,unable,after 23hrs to entertain her child merely ignoring (having exhaussted her repetoire) "it" and thereby making other peoples' journey unbearable OR someone who loves their child enough to pay someone to "entertain" said child and make the journey enjoyable for all?????

"martyred smuggery"

Precisely

GO Issy,Gess et al who "get it"!

KM, what is your other childs SN?? You said you had 2??

My brother isn't disabled!! He has a severe allergy, a health need, a scary one I'll grant you but he even managed fishing on holidays, he would just get someone to put bait on rod and someone to take fish off hook and wear gloves, all with an allergy that could kill him too

He also travels regularly on planes without too many problems. He has an inconvenience not a disabilty (so do the people that live with him) There was no hysterics when he was growing up, as he was alone with his problem (not many had it then) His life is relatively easy now as he has an epipen so can deal with the problem himself

I'm very confused about your views regarding this person and her childcare or anyones childcare, you are very blinkered

And when you have had the difficulty of wedging a non sitting up, young adult on a plane, with 2 people holding them up, changing pads on the floor of the plane or dealing with a child that has no understanding of the world around them, no safety awareness and difficultiy in making sense of the world..... then you can equate and allergy to a disability!

But KerryMum, you havent been on a plane with your kids, you dont know what you are talking about when you slate somebodys parenting skills for wanting help on a 36 hour journey.

I flew to South India via Sri Lanka with a 2 year old. I did not think it would be that bad, only, it turned out he had an ear infection and howled 12 hours non stop. You dont know in advance how a flight might pan out.

I took my 3 month old out flying, the airport computer system was down, I was queueing for 3 hours with him on my arm just to check in. I lost my connecting flight and spent hours meandering an airport with a knackered baby.

You dont know how knackereing it is to fly with children until you have done a couple of international flights.

Issy

Oh...and Tellusmater....

I travel Aukland to Heathrow through Hong Kong annually on my own with my boys aged 7 and 3. It is the shit nightmare from hell every time. So much so that this year I am not going. ROll on next May. Don't assume the op is a wind up, I would say that I see it on at least every flight. Often the mother sits in the row in front sleeps and entertains the child intermittently. I was a bit horrified the time the mother was in business class and the children and nanny was in peasant class and she popped out every now and then to say hi. The youngest then spent the next hour screaming psychotically every time she went back behind the curtain. They were sitting in the seats across teh aisle from us and I could have throttled her with the curtain as everytime I got one of the boys asleep she would appear. Having said that if I could afford it and not spend the rest of the year thinking what else I could have spent the money on, the thought of being able to go home this year, get off the plane not in tears, frazzled and exhausted so much that I fight with my mum on the way back to her house so badly that we hardly speak for the rest of the 5 week hols has alot gong for it.

It's also common amongst those living in Asia who have nannies anyway.

I think Kerrymum is getting a hard time on this thread as most of the supporters of the OP seem to think hiring a stranger to look after your kids on a flight would be a super idea

and she obviously isn't trying to have a "my sn child is harder work than yours", she's just telling us about her daily problems she has encountered.

FWIW I think putting kids into all day holiday clubs, paying a stranger to take them off your hands because you can't be bothered with the hassle and then not being able to take any criticism is a bit rich

why has the OP not come back? this must be a wind up