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

So most people with empathy for the OP have done the long haul then?

dunno about the thread, but if i was goiing to do an 11 hour flight i'd LOVE a nanny there to help if i could afford it.
anyway ladies, Bringing Up Baby is coming onto channel four. it's that bonkers Claire Verity woman... lord HELP the poor OP if she employs her for the flight.

OO - it won't be terrible. It will ahve it's moments but it will be fine- you can walk around, the kids can. You can give a mild sleeping draft if you fancy. Buy some decent head phones adn they can watch films.

I do get pissed off with all this 'god it was hell' worst days of my life' stuff

YOU ARE GOING ON HOLIDAY TO AN AMAZING PLACE/

welshmum, not i. the longest i've done with a child is 3 hours. long enough

oo - was not shouting at you - it was at the ether!

not holiday, we will only do the flight once (emigrating)

I have to be off to make sandwiches from hell, toodledoo

well newlife etc

others were holiday

OO - I didn't know you're emigrating!! When? Why? And all other questions beginning with W??!

Did Florida with 3 under 6. They were all ACE, despite me working myself into sweat about before hand.

DD who was about 18mnths at the time did sometimes kick the seat in front by mistake obv. Fantastically rude man turns and says 'Can't you keep your bloody child under control'???

So often it is the reactions/expected reactions of other pple which make public parenting so hard. Its very sad. Perhaps if we had a more accepting society the poor OP wouldn't feel the need for a nanny.......

What a shameful thread!

Oh, I have done the long haul, but never more than 24 hours travel time in total. I do many short haul flights within Europe a year, mostly with airport transfer. I have had hired help on ONE such journey, but I was not physically capable of doing it on my own. I guess that is why I have had empathy for OP from the beginning.

I'm putting countess draculas links into my favourites file in case I can ever afford it.

I've just come back from ds (20mths) first airline trips, only 7 hrs each way and the daytime flight with us all awake was more stressful than the overnight one where ds slept & dp & I stayed awake watching him. I wouldn't want to do it without help, and in 3 mths time when ds2 comes along (hopefully) I will appreciate as much help as I can get.

I suspect that making my life as a parent so hard that my children might feel guilty for their existence would not be healthy for any of us.

Why don't Issy and OO fly together and split the cost of a nanny?

Well Niceglasses, I refer you to my 7.00 post on seat kicking. Yes, it was Cod's DH.
Indeedy.

eh? Not sure I get youre point. Being dim, am tired.

wasn't going to respond to this....but can't resist.....kerrymum, take a chill pill! Go get a mums help to take some of the pressure off, cos you seem stressed.

Deaf in one ear isn't a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, one of my sons has partial deafness in both ears, it doesn't make much difference to him, just means he has to sit at front of class, not exactly a disability

It's fabulous that you can do all your parenting, all of the time. I and many others don't feel the need to and I'm sure if the money was there, the others wouldnt either. I'm glad of all the help I can muster (even without ANY SN, i'd still take it)

Hope the OP comes back and sees the reasonable support she got eventually

Well, I haven't been involved in this thread, either, but I have to disagree with your post, minority, on two levels.

The first, is that Kerry has her own anxieties. They're not for you to belittle. She's raising kids on her own (she doesn't need me to defend her), and her posts are always consistent.

And to the second: you imply that all mothers would happily let someone else take a crucial role in their children's early years if they had the money. Well, some might. But I wouldn't. You see, I feel the need to raise my own kid, in my own time. If you don't feel the need to, that's your life and your judgment on the role of parenthood.

But it's not mine. And I'm afraid that money ... and I thank God I don't have any .. wouldn't change my view on that.

i was resonding to this.....

^Sorry MR but he is classifed as having a disability. But I guess doctors and consultants don't know as well as you? AND you are OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND if you think having multiple allergies that can KILL you merely by touch or breathing them in is a FUCKING MERE INCONVENIENCE.

You are WAY out of fucking line^

I wasn't rude to her, I just have different views on what a disability is and what a health need is, from personal experience with anaphalaxis and allergies

And just because people choose to do ALL their own childcare, doesn't make it wrong for those who are happy to share the load, whether working or sah. Her views so far have been pretty extreme and I won't apologise for responded

Completely off topic and pointless but I did once see Helena Christiansen getting off a plane with her son at Nice airport and she looked fabulous (no make up hair tied back sort of fabulous) i was also getting off plane with DH and DS and needless to say looked dreadful.

NG, a bit more for you, I am tired too.

(Sorry you got told off for small child seat kicking, not nice, not tolerant)

The OP was mocked by some posters including Cod and was upset at their reaction.

In a ?Chat thread a few months ago, Cod's DH threatened to fucking kill a seat kicker.The OP, Cod, thought this was funny.Others on MN didn't.Cod appeared to be upset at their reaction.

Cod was of course one of those referred to elsewhere as (I paraphrase) gently mocking the OP in this thread.

Please feel free to insert quotation marks using your right and left hands around any of the above verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

So...does "parental martyrdom" ie;never (it seems to KM),letting anyone else other than you look after your dcs make you a better parent???????

Certainly not, but it can hardly make you a worse one ..

Really?????????
I know several parents (SAHM included) who if they didn't have grandparents or a couple of hours creche/nursery time booked would definitely be worse parents.