Received Monday, September 24, 2007
There is much talk today about your ALBINO nanny. I am guessing she needs no further physical description. This morning she took your 3 year old child to Prospect Park. She took him over to the area by the picnic tables which are located near the 9th St. entrance. The child remained strapped in the stroller. This is not even a nice area of the park. What did the albino nanny do? Flip open her cell phone and start chatting. This went on for a solid hour between 9:30 and 10:30 AM this morning, (9/24). The child was doing nothing. Just sitting there. If you don't know the area, there are nice open areas and a great playground. I am guessing the child's parents think he was at the park PLAYING.
A 3 year old strapped in a stroller for all that time???
ReplyDeleteHorrible!
The child should have been able to run around and play.
Horrible!
I don't like this type of nanny
The albino has got to go!
ReplyDeleteIf I was an albino nanny, I think I would bring my A game to the park. There cannot be a whole lot of mystery as to who this is.
ReplyDeleteIs she pink eyes and everything?
fire the albino nannie..she sucks big time....poor little one..
ReplyDeleteparents wake up....
Only albino animals have pink eyes. Albino people have blue eyes, and are visually impaired. (They usually see at about 20/200).
ReplyDeleteI believe I know this nanny, and I've seen her in the park on numerous occasions and she's been lovely. Besides, I've sat in the park with my son in his stroller many times while I've chatted on the phone (safer than having him run around while I'm preoccupied)--maybe not for an hour, but I wasn't timing myself.
ReplyDeleteThe picnic benches are not such a terrible area and one hour spent in a stroller outside on a beautiful day does not seem so horrible to me.
If it's the nanny I'm thinking of, she has African American features, but very light skin (and blue eyes).
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't really seem THAT bad. I mean, she wasn't mistreating him or neglecting him or anything that would hurt him. It's not something I would personally do, only because I go to the park to play at the park, but maybe something came up that was really important, that she had to call about.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder if the length of time may be exaggerated in these kinds of posts. Are you guessing, or did you check your watch for some reason when she arrived?
ReplyDeleteI am against being on the phone when you are with young children in the playground, but if there is a call your MUST deal with, the child is safer in the stroller.
Yes, she is an albino black woman. And no, she did not abuse the child. He was safe in the stroller. Isn't this blog to let parents know what is going on? So unless you are the parent of the child, only you can say whether it is okay or not that your child sat in the stroller for an hour today. In beautiful weather. Where not so far away kids much younger were roaming around and playing!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about you, but I can supervise one 3 year old on the playground while I talk on my phone.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that if a 3 year old was in his stroller doing "nothing" for an hour, then he didn't mind being there. Usually a 3 year old who wants to be OUT of their stroller will make their wishes very clearly known and possibly even unbuckle themselves and climb out. So maybe, just maybe, the nanny was seeing if he would perhaps fall asleep for a nap there, or that could have been a way of giving him a "quiet time" instead of a nap, as 3 year olds are sometimes phasing out naps altogether, but need at least a bit of downtime. If her biggest crime was leaving him in his stroller for an hour with no objection from him (at least none was mentioned), I don't see this incident as anything horrible.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Cali Mom. Without knowing the whole circumstances, we cannot judge. Very well could have been quiet time. I have a very well behaved daughter that will be 3 next month and she would not sit in a stroller for an hour doing nothing if he wasn't content doing so.
ReplyDeleteMeh, this wasn't that bad.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have a picture of the Albino?
ReplyDeleteAnd to those of you excusing the three year old being in the stroller for an hour long conversation, GET REAL.
Not acceptable. Not at all.
it's horrible to make excuses for her behavior I would have a talk with her and if it happened again fire her...there is no reason for this.
ReplyDeleteCheesepower--You couldn't supervise my kid on the playground and talk on the phone. Kudos to this nanny for realizing her limitations.
ReplyDeleteSeriously--there's not nearly enough info to go on here. Maybe the kid had the cold every other kid in Park Slope seems to have, but the nanny/parents wanted him to go out for fresh air and take it easy?
Calling for a nanny to be fired based on this one hour of behavior is a witch hut--nothing more.
I think its true that maybe the child had a cold and she wanted him to get some fresh air and sunshine for a little while and not infect any other children. My daughter was very mellow sometimes at that age and would just chill out and then at other times be very active. There is not enough to go on here to make any negative judgements.
ReplyDeleteI would normally say fire the nanny, she's not doing her job blah blah but a 3 year old is obviously old enough to verbalize his feelings. If he didn't complain, he didn't mind. Maybe that's what he wanted
ReplyDeleteI agree with 2:23 the child probably had a cold. I am in NJ and its going around, I caught it myself, from my 20 month old.
ReplyDeleteAre you telling me other people were sitting around staring at the nanny with the child? Where they staring at the child being in the stroller for the so called hour. Or because it was a Albino nanny?? Some people are really rude staring at someone that is different.
ReplyDelete9:19, I supervise two toddlers and a pre-schooler on the playground almost every day, so I think ONE three year old and a cell phone is doable.
ReplyDeleteIt is irresponsible to supervise a 3-year old and chat on the phone at the same time. A 3 year old would be climbing the jungle gym, trying to hang on the monkey bars and you will not be able to catch him with one hand if you were chatting on the cell phone. It would be possible for you to observe him play and for you to make sure some stranger doesn't kidnap him but you would definitely not be alert enough to catch him if he falls
ReplyDeleteCheesepower--You may do it, but you can't do it well. Remind me never to leave my kid with you.
ReplyDelete10:03- How do you know what I can and can't do well? I take my three charges to the park almost every day and no one has been kidnapped, gotten more than a little scrape, and we always have a great time. They do need supervision while climbing and that's why I make them take turns. What is a family to do with more than one child? Just hole up in the house all day because it takes a little more effort to supervise them? I never talk on my cell phone at work, but if an emergency came up and I had to talk on my phone at the park, I think I could find something else for them to do besides sit in a stroller. How about pushing them on the swings or playing in the sandbox, or even just taking a walk? There was no excuse to leave that poor child strapped in the stroller for an hour!
ReplyDeleteCheesehead
ReplyDeleteGet off your high horse. You think your something special.
Cheese power! You cannot say NEVER, close your sentence and then say well if an emergency came up! GET IT TOGETHER! NEVER means just that!!!
ReplyDelete10:59 I don't think I'm anything special, I think I'm doing what any nanny should, and that is take my charges out, play with them, supervise them, and not gab on my phone at work. This nanny shouldn't have been on the phone in the first place, but if there was an emergency and she HAD to be on the phone, then I'm sure she could have found something better for a three year old to do than sit in the stroller.
ReplyDeleteThe person who wrote this said the child sat in the stroller for an hour . What child sits in a stroller and not want to get out after a few minutes? None that i can think of. Maybe it was his nap time .
ReplyDeleteA child will sit in a stroller for an hour if he is repeatedly placed in the stroller for that long. It's possible that he used to protest, but then got used to it, if the nanny often leaves him strapped in a stroller. It's similar to "learned helplessness."
ReplyDeletePoor albino nanny. This reminds me of those small albino animals who will never survive because hawks and other predators spot them first. She just sticks out too much! Come to think of it, there IS an albino squirrel who lives near the 9th St playground, and has for a long time, despite the numerous hawks in Prospect Park. Perhaps the nanny will be ok.
ReplyDeleteIN ANOTHER WORLD.....
ReplyDeleteAlbino nannies roam the streets of post-apocalyptic Park Slope in search of orphaned little blonde-haired boys and girls to work in the sweatshops of Chinatown...
Only one person can save them.
See Academy AwardTM-wnning actress Jennifer Connely in...
The Albino Hunter
1204, i choked on my bagel...
ReplyDeletelmao
I am not a mom but all my friends who are report rough days where they yell more than they should have, yank an arm harder than they meant to, say things they shouldn't to their kids.
ReplyDeleteAnd my friends are not with their kids all day every day.
Are nannies not allowed to ever have a rough day? Its a hard freaking job compared to my desk job!
yes nannies can have off days. My nanny told me last week she was too tired to think of sitting thru a music class with a bunch of 1 year olds, so she didn't go. There are days she doesn't pick up. Doesn't feel like cooking, so she picks things up at the deli. She is a great nanny and most often pretty active and outgoing. There have been days when nanny and child watch movies all afternoon. But hitting a child? Grabbing a child? Absolutely not. I would never lose it like that with my child and I would not tolerate a nanny who did. As for yelling- yes. But there is a tone to someone's yelling when it is yelling and when it is mean and ugly. I grew up with a nanny and she yelled all the time, but never mean things. I think when people report yelling they are also indicating a tone of voice that makes the nanny sound evil.
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