http://www.selfmademom.net/2007/03/16/the-real-nanny-diaries/ Off-Ramped and Unbalanced Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.selfmademom.net/2007/03/16/the-real-nanny-diaries/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Jackie Van Tilburg Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:11:47 +0000 http://selfmademom.net/2007/03/16/the-real-nanny-diaries/#comment-353 In today's "busy Mom world" it seems that everything has gone crazy! Though my children are grown, I used baby sitters when they were tots. I gaged my choice of caretakers being good, bad,other by the way my child greeted me on my return to pick them up. A happy, clean and well rested child who had ventures to share with me was my review. I fired only two sitters in the years I used them. One had my child sitting in the floor wrapped in a towel because she had run out of clean clothes. I had only packed four outfits. It would have cost her 10 cents to dry one of the used outfits, which I would have gladly paid. He was taking an antibiotic for an ear infection. The other returned a blouse which was literally in shreds. She had no explanation of how this occurred. Thankfully, my daughter was in perfect condition! I think nanny's can write anything down in a log. You have to work with intuition as to whether or not the caretaker is a good fit. Lots of Mothers work, the time spent with their children after pick-up tells a multitude. And, in this age of two income families, you are going to experience giving up the same first moments that fathers have done for generations. It's the moments recorded in the Mothers' Minds' Eye that count. In today’s “busy Mom world” it seems that everything has gone crazy! Though my children are grown, I used baby sitters when they were tots. I gaged my choice of caretakers being good, bad,other by the way my child greeted me on my return to pick them up. A happy, clean and well rested child who had ventures to share with me was my review. I fired only two sitters in the years I used them. One had my child sitting in the floor wrapped in a towel because she had run out of clean clothes. I had only packed four outfits. It would have cost her 10 cents to dry one of the used outfits, which I would have gladly paid. He was taking an antibiotic for an ear infection. The other returned a blouse which was literally in shreds. She had no explanation of how this occurred. Thankfully, my daughter was in perfect condition! I think nanny’s can write anything down in a log. You have to work with intuition as to whether or not the caretaker is a good fit. Lots of Mothers work, the time spent with their children after pick-up tells a multitude. And, in this age of two income families, you are going to experience giving up the same first moments that fathers have done for generations. It’s the moments recorded in the Mothers’ Minds’ Eye that count.

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