I wanted an older nanny (meaning, older than me.) I don’t have anything against young people but I work with 20-year-olds and I don’t want to feel like work continues at home. Also, 50+-year-old women don’t find it easy to get employed, so it’s important to give them a chance.
What I didn’t take into consideration, though, is that older people are into phones. And not in the comforting check-my-apps-and-text manner but in the creepy talk-into-them manner. And I’m not old enough to find this pastime entertaining.
Maybe I should hire a 20-year-old.
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Will you leave a nanny alone with the child? Especially if yes, I would’ve been more comfortable with somebody who has raised her own children and thus has real experience, not 20 year old with only babysitting experience.
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Eventually, yes, I will have to go to work in September. Klara will only be alone with her about 6 hours a week but still.
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Good luck! A good nanny is a godsend, but a bad nanny can do untold damage to a kid because she’s alone with the child all day. I never trusted myself to hire a nanny, I can’t read Midwestern-born Americans very well; I was afraid I would hire an axe murderer. We have always gone with a daycare center; they do the vetting, plus there is always backup when the teacher is sick, and the kid is never alone with one caregiver. Each of our kids got sick a lot in daycare that first year, but afterwards almost never (got antibodies to everything).
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Well, it’s not going to be anything like all day. I only need to be in the classroom for a couple of hours twice a week. The rest of the time I’m at home working on my research. I’m thinking she can start daycare after she is 18 months and potty-trained. Although there is nothing at all wrong with starting daycare earlier, of course. It’s just that since I’m mostly at home anyway, I didn’t see the point.
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If Klara is potty trained before she starts daycare, you will be every daycare teachers’s favorite parent!
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That’s the goal. 🙂
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I confess that I like talking on a phone: Not a cell phone, mind you, but a real phone, with a wire connecting it to the wall. It means that I don’t need to try to decipher “body language” which I am not good at at all. I don’t much like texts except for very brief information exchanges. I do not have any “apps” on my cell phone.
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I agree! You can train a monkey to send texts, but only human beings can talk.
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You can’t train this monkey, apparently. I’ve been texting a friend’s home number and wondering why there was no response.
On a serious note, you’d lose all interest in talking on the phone if you lived in an area where nobody understood a word you say. It gets very frustrating.
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