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

471 replies

Georgiaplus1 · 24/09/2007 20:42

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

OP posts:
gess · 25/09/2007 20:24

I think so OliveOil. And agree with Blu.

niceglasses · 25/09/2007 20:25

[also wonders how this turned into special needs etc] Where did that come in?

Starry - it was more that I don't see the difference btwn this and kids clubs. Yeah, I sort of feel the same as you, but I know loads and loads of pple who relish a few hours to themselves on hols. And fair play to them!

Blu · 25/09/2007 20:25

Maybe she is truly terrified of flying and it makes her unable to function, at all. It happens.
But we don't knwo.
And maybe she plans to let the nanny get to know her child before they go!

gess · 25/09/2007 20:25

And why on earth does it matter to you KM? She can do what she wants. It doesn;t affect your life one little bit.

The woman who sent me out for coffee was o her first day with ds2 and ds3. They were fine, they had fun and didn;t need me hovering over them. Some children don't pass out at the sight of a stranger (some do- depends on the kids- presumably the OP has taken that into consideration).

Coolmama · 25/09/2007 20:26

oi-vey - this passive-agressive martydom stuff is tiresome, to say the least.
If the OP ever comes back (although if she has an ounce of sense, she won't), then the short answer to your question is, no, I don't know where you can look for someone like this, but try gumtreeor nannyjob.com and you may find what you need there. HTH
gotta go.

niceglasses · 25/09/2007 20:27

KM - if you don't believe in kids clubs then, no you wouldn't have any truck with what the OP is considering.

However, you have to admit lots of pple use them, thus making the OPs request not so mad and selfish.

oliveoil · 25/09/2007 20:27

could I get a flight nanny for dh? he is scared of flying so it would be like having 3 kids tbh

Blu · 25/09/2007 20:28

GeorgiaPlus1 - and try SimplyChildcare - it is a subscription list of all kinds of childcare needs and offers - no agency fees but you subscribe to 3 issues. You can place you own ad, and read all the others.

gess · 25/09/2007 20:29

I loathe flying (Someone from my school was on Lockerbie). Dh could do with someone to take me away- he says I frighten little children (we haven;t been post kids so I've never had to do brave mother).

BeetrootBevan · 25/09/2007 20:31

BUT Blu - she only gave us a certain amount of info and then left. -

A nervous wreck can mean anything - I would say I am a nervous wreck when I fly but it does not stop me functioning as a parent.

I thin the nanny would be a stranger (nothing wrong with that, but I question how useful she would be as the child would cling to mummy) if she wanted the person for the flight and the holiday - she didn't explain -

and perhaps everyone should have stopped and thought but to start with this thread was light hearted banter - it is only since she came screaming back in that it became madness

and Phuket was very funny

I would not have a nanny for a flight but I would go away without my kids no problem - I am not a martyr.

BeetrootBevan · 25/09/2007 20:33

fabulous use of the English language there beety!!! NOT

oliveoil · 25/09/2007 20:33

iirc Countess linked some nanny stuff about 299 posts down

BeetrootBevan · 25/09/2007 20:33

OO - you will be fine.

don't stress

oliveoil · 25/09/2007 20:34

I know I will, I will ask the OP for her nanny contact mwahhahahahaahahaha

Blu · 25/09/2007 20:35

Not good enough, beety. She did come back, but by then everyone was rolling in the aisles about her assumed incompetence etc and having a right old time adding post after post. No-one stopped to ask questions or wait for fut=rther explanation.

yes, completely fair enugh to question the efeectiveness of a nanny, but that wasn't what was making her hands shake as she came back, i thnk.

It's the bundling in i can't stand. It makes me sick.

Blandmum · 25/09/2007 20:35

Blimey.

Well, shoot me now, but when I've been on my knees, coping with my two NT kids, I've paid people to look after them so I could have a break, and have at least a chance of staying sane. I'd resist the temptation to judge what might be going on in other people's lives

barefeete · 25/09/2007 20:37

I flew on own to US and then on the Caribbean with DS 17 months and DD 3 weeks. It was HIDEOUS. No choice, DH started a new job and i followed him with x2 car seats, 6 suit cases, buggy, toddler, new born in papoose bla bla bla. hideous hideous hideous.

I would beg, borrow, steal and EVEN pay someone to help me if ever i have to get on a flight in that situation again.

Some of you are very funny and have amused me with all your whitty banter but come on no one knows why the op has posted and you all presume that you do.

I hope she finds what she is looking for. This thread has made see the really shit side of mumsnet.

BeetrootBevan · 25/09/2007 20:41

tbh - Blu - I do think they were egging each other on in a silly moment -

If she had been 'known' it would have been different - or if she had 'known' MN she might have reacted in a different way.

I agree more questions should have been asked.

There is a problem - and there have been a few similar threads recently, where people have asked out of the ordinary questions, and have also been new/name changers/trolling...guess it makes one assume that this COULD be a joke -

Perhpas we all need to take a step back and not assume anything before asking/listening?

welshmum · 25/09/2007 20:41

Oh thank goodness, I thought I'd gone soft in the head earlier.

niceglasses · 25/09/2007 20:45

About 20 posts in we were getting

'This is so a wind up.....

Not sure how that relates to light hearted banter.

It is the piling in. Its just not nice. She would have got the point around 5 posts in I would have said. Okay its not the worst problem in the world, but Christ don't see the need for such well plain rudeness.

She won't be back and I don't blame her.

Blu · 25/09/2007 20:46

Beety - Have looked at the early part of this therad, mostly it was people trying to help. The Cod and leisle got going, and others picked up the 'let's mock' and it got much worse after the OP came back. Yes, silly moment out of hand, but it makes v ugly reading, as a whole.

As someone just said - the shit side of MN.

P'robably best to draw a veil....but knowing when to shut up isn't MN-ers best collective quality, sometimes!!

arfishy · 25/09/2007 20:49

How many people taking the piss out of the OP have actually done this flight?

I did it on my own with DD when she was 2 and it was horrendous. Not just the flight, juggling the bags, trolleys, buggy, immigration, but also arriving at 6am after 2 days of no sleep, have to go straight to the supermarket to stock up on food/juggle temporary apartment and then not sleep for another few days dealing with jetlagged 2 year old.

If I'd been able to get a flight with a sky nanny I would. 24 hours of repeatedly adjusting headphones and preventing a toddler from stripping isn't fun.

welshmum · 25/09/2007 20:50

I genuinely did feel a bit stupid earlier even for what little I said, the OP must have felt awful. I know it got to an argument about bullying and what constitutes bullying - maybe that is too strong a word but it felt very unpleasant...

Tutter · 25/09/2007 20:50

it's the inverted snobbery thing kicking in again

boring and predictable

don;t you all know you have to suffer to be a proper mum?

oliveoil · 25/09/2007 20:53

now then arfishy, surely this is the norm:

I will get on an empty plane so will have a whole 3, no make it 4, rows to ourselves

dd1 will not be scared and throw up, dd2 will do as she is told for the first time ever and not have a tantrum

the food will be fab, no delays and I will look like Helena Christansen when I get off