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

I'm definitely a worse parent without help. For starters we're housebound. Bit of help the kids get out somewhere during the day, I get a chance to cook proper food, the kids get someone to play with them.

The OP isn't asking for anyone to 'raise her child'. She is looking for someone to assist her with a particular task for 2 days. She will actually be there - unlike a child going to nursery or on a visit to a grandparents!

Exactly-and since when has asking for help or advice been a crime or make you a bad parent?

OK am putting my oar in.

Before shouting troll try searching a Posters name. OP is an infrequent but fairly longstanding poster.

Before judging her read some of said threads and you will see she is as insecure and real as the rest of us.

OP - hope you have had your answer and find the help you feel you need for whatever reason.

Sorry Kery-you have no problem with that but you do seem to have a problem with someone admitting they fell they will have a problem on a flight and needs help???

Don't understand....

I really must be being a little dense here Kerry-what is the difference between asking or making use of "help" at home or at 37,00 feet???????

Well, what else do you want to do with a 2 year old on a plane??? Of course she wants help with the entertainment, keeping him amused for a dull dull dull confined 24 hours

Yes, but you do that all the time any way, that is the norm. Why is it so difficult to understand that it might be best for mother AND CHILD to have some help on a long and very tedious journey? Not everybody is able to cope with that?

Will you stop nit-picking?

The OP asks for a nanny (oh, and I'd rather not pay recruitment fees), to entertain her child.

I guess it's because she's frightened of flying. Oh, what money can buy, hey? I'm frightened of spiders. Perhaps I should employ someone to eradicate them?

The OP, and I may say this in the dearth of evidence to suggest that she is in some way physically or several emotionally disabled, is just trying to pass the buck. Just what the feck is wrong with loving and looking after the people you brought into the world? Yourself. Because they're yours. Are some women so frightened of their own offspring that they don't trust themselves to be able to entertain them? Maybe a flight to Sydney is the longest period they've had to look after them since they were born?

Well, if anything ever taught me that money stank, it's this thread.

And she doesn't want to pay a recruitment fee, either, which makes her a tight-arse, and all.

Having done a few long haul flights, it is hard hard hard work to keep them amused. You get bored of them and they get bored with you and the small amount of toys you can take on board, there is no way to let off steam

Could you really, sit in a chair for over 24 hours, with little or no sleep, in a room with 3 cars and 4 books and keep a two year old happy??? Only get off chair for a pee break (of course taking child into a loo barely big enough for 1, and not wanting to upset anyone??

Of course it can be done but if you can share the load, where is the harm in that??

Having a few days in doors due to sick kids you used to send me crazy even when you have all the home comforts

The OP's idea makes perfect sense to me

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And so it makes us bad parents if we ask for help, see, that is where I disagree.

I agree doodledotoo
Couple of people trying to help and a lot of jeering. It's really crap isn't it

Many years ago, a mother didn't raise children all alone and by themselves. Most people didn't move far from home and had an extended family around them who helped hugely

My grandparents had 9 children, and lived next door to my great aunt that only had 2. They shared childcare (with other aunts and great grandparents) one of my aunts slept in the other house for 8 years as there wasn't room for her in her own house!

No one did it completely alone, nor were they expected to, today that luxury has gone and so parents soemtimes have external help, it's how it should be imo

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But starry, you made it clear very early in this thread that you employed help because you were physically incapable of doing otherwise.

That, my darling friend, is more than understandable, so I hope you don't think my comments were addressed to you. They most certainly weren't

And who cares if the nanny does do it?? If that is how life is in that household, then why any different on a flight. Or maybe she was looking to share the work. We prob won't find out now as people were mean to start with

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Desi, appreciated. Having an "off" day, took both you and CoV personally, though it wasnt.