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PiscesHow Much Do You Know about Your Nanny?
Cindy Crawford found out the hard way that hers was anything but trustworthy.
Momlogic's Julie: Yesterday, we told you about the guy who is trying to extort money from Cindy Crawford after their nanny passed along creepy pictures she'd taken of Cindy's daughter Kaia. As someone who has employed many nannies, this sent shivers down my spine.
I never had much luck with nannies. The first one we had for a year. We treated her like family, and my son loved her with all of his little heart. Then, a few minutes before she left on her first paid vacation, she told us she wasn't coming back. No notice, no nothing. I was devastated. When my husband called to tell me at work, I sobbed and sobbed. Two weeks later, my husband saw her unloading groceries from a car at the house five doors down. Our neighbor had poached our nanny right out from under our noses.
The next nanny left bottles lying around with curdled milk inside. When I saw her, she wanted to talk more about her boyfriends than the baby. We let her go pronto.
We hired another one. After her first day on the job, I checked my web history and saw she had been posting for jobs on Craigslist. I was in shock, and talked to her about it. She apologized profusely and said she'd give this job her all. Then a month later, she didn't show up. I found out from her Facebook page that she was in rehab.
So the day I could put my kids in preschool and be done with all this nanny nonsense was one of the happiest days of my life.
I could really sympathize with Cindy Crawford. Finding out someone you trusted with your kids -- with your LIVES -- could take such perverted pictures in some "cops and robbers" game must have made her heart leap out of her chest.
I never had a nanny cam, so I really have no idea what my nannies were doing when I wasn't around. I hope to God they weren't doing anything shady, but I really have no way of knowing that for sure.
Stories like these make me really wish I would have put a nanny cam in. Attorney Sunny Hostin says she has one -- and she encourages other parents to do the same."I was a sex crimes prosecutor, so I have seen the worst of humanity," she says. "I tell any potential nanny that my house is wired. I say, 'I'm sure you're not going to do anything, but this makes me feel more comfortable, and should make you feel more comfortable.' Your children are the most precious beings in the world to you -- why not have that insurance? My kids are 7 and 3, and I enjoy seeing what they are doing during the day via a web cam. It really reduces mom guilt and gives me peace of mind when I can see them in real time. I don't know why someone would NOT do it."
Do you have a nanny cam?
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Tennmom, some people cannot afford to have a one-income household, whether they save up or not. When I had my child, my then-husband made considerably less than I did. It just made sense for me to go back to work, and frankly, we couldn’t have afforded for him to have been a stay-at-home dad either. We were married for four years before we had her. We had a woman babysit her for the first two years of her life, and when that woman moved, she was in preschool. I do raise my child. My ex-husband raises our child. Try being a little less judgmental and remember that we’re all trying to do best by our children here, and that all families are different. What works well for your family would have never worked for ours.
Raise your own damn kids and quit whining.
no, i do not have a nanny cam yet, but i am going to get one
I could not trust anyone other then my girls Auntie and Grandma to watch my 2 little girls, I am a Stay at home mom, my husband and i were only married for 10 months before we had our first and we have been living on a one person income the whole time, it is hard but we make it work. thank goodness i dont have nanny problems…
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Well I love my my job and it gives me a great deal of personal fulfillment. Some people have to quit their jobs because they can’t afford to pay for childcare, but I am lucky enough that I can afford to be with my kids and also to work while someone else watches them. I am proud of my own mother for always having had a job and standing on her own two feet, even though she was and still is happily married to my father. I hope my daughters will be grateful for the example I am setting for them, and that they feel free to choose what is right for them when they grow up. As for the subject of “nannycams”, if my current nanny stays with us I don’t need one, but I would consider one if it were anyone else.
Here is an interesting solution: Raise your children instead of paying someone else to do it.
My late-husband and I were married for 8 years before having our first child. We both worked, saved money like crazy so I could stay home with our daughters.
I loved my job and was well paid but I love my children more than my career. When my older daughter is old enough to drive I will probably go back to work. I feel no sympathy for a person whining about a nanny.