I very much hope you are not trying to warn nannies about pringles cans and baby wipe hidden cameras. these ideas are genius but should be kept private.
So what if a nanny sees this? Wouldn't you rather your nanny know there was a camera and just not do anything bad at all? Or would you rather your nanny beat your kid or do something weird and you get to have fun seeing it on tape? I don't get some people!
Your nanny cam should not plug in- unless it is hidden in an appliance like the alarm clock (great one). It must have been a discount nanny camera bear you had that "plugged in".
ble, I think the point of 4:29 was to say that parents should let their nanny know there is a nanny cam. I personally wouldn't mind a nanny cam on me, but I would want to know if there was one present. As a parent, I can say that we have a sitter who we trust and we don't feel the need to use a nanny cam. I would also be upset if I knew that my young daughter was being filmed at her nanny or babysitting job. There are sick nannies out there, yes, but just as many sick parents. Furthermore, I think that it is good for nannies to be aware of the different kinds of nanny cams out there. Many nannies may want to actually know if they are being filmed, and I believe they have a right to know. I for one would want to know of anyone who actually owned an image of me on a video regardless of what I was doing. It seems quite simple to me, and the concern is not ignorant at all.
julie...I understood what the poster meant. I was simply pointing out the odd way she expressed it.
I would not like my young daughter (were she old enough to babysit) to be filmed either, but a grown woman/nanny is a different story.
I would never use something of this caliber without reason, but they are a good thing to consider if you suspect your nanny is up to something.
If you tell a potantailly harmful nanny about the cam, then all you are left with is a nanny who acts proper in front of the camera and is still a bad nanny when she knows the camera can't see her (like out in the park).
Ble - If you have those kinds of trust issues with a nanny, you shouldn't have that nanny around. I'm 4:29 and not ignorant at all. I'm not saying you have to show the nanny where the camera is, or tell her what it looks like, but regardless if she's a teen or a grown adult, people have the right (in my state at least) to know that they are being filmed. If you are that concerned something will happen in the park, have a friend or neighbor drop by the park and see how things are. Again, cameras are for cowards unless they are up front and honest about it all. Do you teach your kids to name call... or do you let them know they can only do that as an adult? -Far from ignorant
A nanny has no reasonable expectation of privacy when working in someone else's home. It is your home. You have the right to do whatever you want with regard to video cams. The only thing you cannot do is record SOUND.
I don't and won't ever have a nanny anyway, but I do occasionally use a sitter and sometimes people you trust...even family...can have a side you do not know. It is just nice to know that there are VARIOUS options for parents who may start suspect something is not right.
Chuck...depends on the state you live in too. In my state you can record sound (not that I ever have). Just be sure you employers check the laws for your state.
chuck, ethics and legality are two different things. I don't care what the law is. I don't think it's right to film someone. As an above poster said, if you don't trust the person caring for your children, they should not be left alone with your children. I think if people are going to go so far as to pay hundreds of dollars to spy on their child's caregiver, they should re-think their career and their own trust issues, because they may not be emotionally equipt to leave their children with a childcare provider. Unless they are just the kind of person who likes that power that comes with "this is my home and if I want to film you I will." It may be legal but it's creepy if you ask me. If I were a nanny and I found out my employers had filmed me without my knowledge, I would quit without notice and forego the reference for the sole reason that they would be wackos in my book.
I know you were responding to Check, 7:28, but I have to wonder, if the nanny has nothing to hide, why would she object to being seen doing it? Provided the employer respected her private space...bathroom, etc.
Hey if I were working and needed to pick my underwear outta my butt and didn't have time to run to the privacy of the bathroom, I wouldn't want my employer seeing that. Little things like that we all do that wouldn't affect the children or disrespect their home, just somethings are personal and if you don't know you are being filmed, it's just not fair. Also, my employers urge me to take breaks while baby sleeps and use it as my personal time; computer, phone calls, tv, eating, etc. If I were to take a phone call and it be filmed and recorded without my knowledge, I wouldn't be too happy. Matter of fact, I'd quit!
4.39--That is precisely why they should only be used if you start to believe there may be an issue and you cannot seem to resolve (or prove) it otherwise.
While some may, I was certainly not advocating using a nanny-cam all the time from the get-go.
Maybe these camera are good for putting it in places where the nanny shouldn't be. For example, the master bedroom or walk-in closets. The nanny won't be trying to eat pringles in those places.
Genius! I always think that if a family need a nanny cam they have chosen wrong. I am used to working in homes that have all types of surveillance cameras and I know about them. This does not change my nanny behaviour much but sure it is good to know they are around. Especially while I am wearing the mothers designer underwear and swigging their champayne and playing with their sex toys and sniffing their hidden drugs! That said;
I would not like to work for anyone who has hidden cameras. I am sure there was some kind of law stating that anyone who works in the home that they should be notified of such cameras?
I am not against them and frankly I do not need to know where they are I just want to know they exist. Again I just feel that it is a shame they are needed.
Possibly these cameras should be more correctly called hidden or spy cameras to broaden the use of them other than watching the nanny. My friend's job keeps him away from home for 2-3 days a week. When he got home he thought he was missing food. Mostly snack items and beer that he was sure he had bought the week before.
I sold him a hidden camera that looks like a air freshener and is battery powered. This time when he got home there was more than snacks missing. His computer, stereo, DVD player, etc. were gone. We plugged the 8GB SD card from the hidden camera into his laptop and there was the lady from the apartment next door stealing his stuff. He had given her a key for his place for her to feed his fish.
I very much hope you are not trying to warn nannies about pringles cans and baby wipe hidden cameras. these ideas are genius but should be kept private.
ReplyDeleteI have a question..what if the nanny tries to use the wipes, or eat a pringle? Won't they figure it out. :)
ReplyDeleteI hear ya 122. I was cleaning out my grandmother's pantry after she passed away in 1996 and found a can of campbell's soup that was actually a safe.
ReplyDelete:)
These are really cool, but I wondered about the nanny using the wipes and eating the chips too. But still way cool.
ReplyDeleteThese items are not good because of the reasons stated above.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of the cute nanny cam teddy bear.
My child loved it and tried to grab it all of the time but it was plugged in!
When I put it on a high shelf, it couldn't capture anything.
So what if a nanny sees this? Wouldn't you rather your nanny know there was a camera and just not do anything bad at all? Or would you rather your nanny beat your kid or do something weird and you get to have fun seeing it on tape? I don't get some people!
ReplyDeleteYour nanny cam should not plug in- unless it is hidden in an appliance like the alarm clock (great one). It must have been a discount nanny camera bear you had that "plugged in".
ReplyDeleteLaughing my ass off.
4:29...I don't think anyone has fun watching their nanny beat their kids. How ignorant.
ReplyDeleteble,
ReplyDeleteI think the point of 4:29 was to say that parents should let their nanny know there is a nanny cam. I personally wouldn't mind a nanny cam on me, but I would want to know if there was one present. As a parent, I can say that we have a sitter who we trust and we don't feel the need to use a nanny cam.
I would also be upset if I knew that my young daughter was being filmed at her nanny or babysitting job. There are sick nannies out there, yes, but just as many sick parents.
Furthermore, I think that it is good for nannies to be aware of the different kinds of nanny cams out there. Many nannies may want to actually know if they are being filmed, and I believe they have a right to know. I for one would want to know of anyone who actually owned an image of me on a video regardless of what I was doing. It seems quite simple to me, and the concern is not ignorant at all.
"I have a question..what if the nanny tries to use the wipes, or eat a pringle? Won't they figure it out. :)"
ReplyDeleteOr if they eat the wipes and wipe with the Pringles...
This stuff is genius! But creepy.
Nanny cams aren't just for nannies. What a wonderful way to keep track of your boyfriend!
ReplyDeletejulie...I understood what the poster meant. I was simply pointing out the odd way she expressed it.
ReplyDeleteI would not like my young daughter (were she old enough to babysit) to be filmed either, but a grown woman/nanny is a different story.
I would never use something of this caliber without reason, but they are a good thing to consider if you suspect your nanny is up to something.
If you tell a potantailly harmful nanny about the cam, then all you are left with is a nanny who acts proper in front of the camera and is still a bad nanny when she knows the camera can't see her (like out in the park).
Ble - If you have those kinds of trust issues with a nanny, you shouldn't have that nanny around. I'm 4:29 and not ignorant at all. I'm not saying you have to show the nanny where the camera is, or tell her what it looks like, but regardless if she's a teen or a grown adult, people have the right (in my state at least) to know that they are being filmed. If you are that concerned something will happen in the park, have a friend or neighbor drop by the park and see how things are. Again, cameras are for cowards unless they are up front and honest about it all. Do you teach your kids to name call... or do you let them know they can only do that as an adult? -Far from ignorant
ReplyDeleteA nanny has no reasonable expectation of privacy when working in someone else's home. It is your home. You have the right to do whatever you want with regard to video cams. The only thing you cannot do is record SOUND.
ReplyDelete3:39...Okay. you win!
ReplyDeleteI don't and won't ever have a nanny anyway, but I do occasionally use a sitter and sometimes people you trust...even family...can have a side you do not know. It is just nice to know that there are VARIOUS options for parents who may start suspect something is not right.
Chuck...depends on the state you live in too. In my state you can record sound (not that I ever have). Just be sure you employers check the laws for your state.
ReplyDeletechuck,
ReplyDeleteethics and legality are two different things. I don't care what the law is. I don't think it's right to film someone. As an above poster said, if you don't trust the person caring for your children, they should not be left alone with your children.
I think if people are going to go so far as to pay hundreds of dollars to spy on their child's caregiver, they should re-think their career and their own trust issues, because they may not be emotionally equipt to leave their children with a childcare provider. Unless they are just the kind of person who likes that power that comes with "this is my home and if I want to film you I will." It may be legal but it's creepy if you ask me. If I were a nanny and I found out my employers had filmed me without my knowledge, I would quit without notice and forego the reference for the sole reason that they would be wackos in my book.
I know you were responding to Check, 7:28, but I have to wonder, if the nanny has nothing to hide, why would she object to being seen doing it? Provided the employer respected her private space...bathroom, etc.
ReplyDeleteoops....should say "Chuck." Don't want the typo-police coming after me.
ReplyDeleteHey if I were working and needed to pick my underwear outta my butt and didn't have time to run to the privacy of the bathroom, I wouldn't want my employer seeing that. Little things like that we all do that wouldn't affect the children or disrespect their home, just somethings are personal and if you don't know you are being filmed, it's just not fair. Also, my employers urge me to take breaks while baby sleeps and use it as my personal time; computer, phone calls, tv, eating, etc. If I were to take a phone call and it be filmed and recorded without my knowledge, I wouldn't be too happy. Matter of fact, I'd quit!
ReplyDelete4.39--That is precisely why they should only be used if you start to believe there may be an issue and you cannot seem to resolve (or prove) it otherwise.
ReplyDeleteWhile some may, I was certainly not advocating using a nanny-cam all the time from the get-go.
Maybe these camera are good for putting it in places where the nanny shouldn't be. For example, the master bedroom or walk-in closets. The nanny won't be trying to eat pringles in those places.
ReplyDeleteGenius!
ReplyDeleteI always think that if a family need a nanny cam they have chosen wrong. I am used to working in homes that have all types of surveillance cameras and I know about them. This does not change my nanny behaviour much but sure it is good to know they are around. Especially while I am wearing the mothers designer underwear and swigging their champayne and playing with their sex toys and sniffing their hidden drugs! That said;
I would not like to work for anyone who has hidden cameras. I am sure there was some kind of law stating that anyone who works in the home that they should be notified of such cameras?
I am not against them and frankly I do not need to know where they are I just want to know they exist. Again I just feel that it is a shame they are needed.
W.P.N
Possibly these cameras should be more correctly called hidden or spy cameras to broaden the use of them other than watching the nanny. My friend's job keeps him away from home for 2-3 days a week. When he got home he thought he was missing food. Mostly snack items and beer that he was sure he had bought the week before.
ReplyDeleteI sold him a hidden camera that looks like a air freshener and is battery powered. This time when he got home there was more than snacks missing. His computer, stereo, DVD player, etc. were gone. We plugged the 8GB SD card from the hidden camera into his laptop and there was the lady from the apartment next door stealing his stuff. He had given her a key for his place for her to feed his fish.