Received Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Yesterday, (10/22), at about 4:15 PM a little boy, about age 2.5 tripped and fell, bleeding from his mouth (scary). As he lay on the ground screaming, a little girl, about age 4-5, came and sat on his chest (turns out she was a stranger). No caregiver to be seen, my friend (a mom) went over to help. The boy said he was with "Janna" or something that sounds or rhymes with that. While my friend stayed with him, I screamed around the playground for "Janna" and saying a little boy is bleeding. After a few minutes of no response an AA woman with braids in a ponytail, about age 30, wearing a denim jacket, bright yellow blouse and denim jeans cuffed below the knee, came over and took the boy back to where she was sitting across the playground and out of view. She was nasty as well when I asked her why wasn't she watching him. She also had the boy's baby sister in a stroller- baby was about 7 months old, brunette, with pink shirt and dark bottoms. Boy wore a yellow and blue striped shirt with the number 8 on the back, I think. Stroller was a black Maclaren. Nanny was talking with another nanny wearing a dress and caring for a blonde girl with long wavy hair, about 4 years old. Parents beware! Every time I come to this park I see another episode of nanny neglect with a child hurting him or herself with no nanny nearby, but this was unbelievable.
The Parents need to be more aware of who there hire. I would have follow the nanny to the building and then find out who the parents and report them to them for neglect.
ReplyDeleteat least there are always a fair number of moms at this park to step in. Usually protecting the little ones from the unsupervised sand throwers, pushers, etc.
ReplyDeleteI have been in this park as well and plenty of the "sand throwers and pushers" are there with their mothers, not a nanny. Examples like this episode are one thing and helpful, baseless generalizing is useless. And before you get all hot and bothered, I am not a nanny.
ReplyDeleteOP......good post! I hope the parents fire her sorry ass.....I wish there was a board where we could find out what happens to the nannies that get caught and are fired because of this board!!! I can't imagine someone being so careless and neglectful! Oh......and 9:42, if I'm a Mom at a park......I don't WANT to be watching everyone kids. Especially those children who are under the care of a PAID nanny!
ReplyDeleteGood for you, OP for getting involved to help this poor little boy.
ReplyDeletelord bless these evil people who tries to destroy nannies life
ReplyDeleteThere's one like 9:41 on every post. Lord help US!
ReplyDeleteEvil people? Excuse me? What does it take to get you off your lazy arse bitter nanny? The kid killing themself while you chat on your damn phone? AND before you jump down my throat, I AM a nanny, who loves and watches her charge. You are the evil one, go work at Mc Donald's, you don't deserve to be near the innocent. A nanny should encompass the role of mentor, and teacher, sitting on your butt and calling others evil when they notice how crappy you are at your job only shows how pathetic, sub par, and delusional you truly are! Childcare is hard and trying job, if you don't have what it takes (endless amounts of patience, stable personality, knowledge of child development, laid back personality, maturity etc) go sit behind a freakin' desk, or flip burgers, I'm truly sick of seeing these beastly excuses for human beings nannying all over the place!
ReplyDelete7:53AM Great post you are 100% correct
ReplyDeleteI love 7:53. HEAR! HEAR!
ReplyDelete7:53...Perfectly said, except we probably don't want her (9:41) flipping our burgers either. My kids eat at McDonalds! maybe she should work shoveling horse sh*t...she seems good at it!
ReplyDeleteMeme,
ReplyDeleteAs usual, you are funny!
7:53
ReplyDeleteWell said! I am so fed up with these lazy, negligent, poorly qualified women giving the nanny profession a bad name.
Parents, please stop hiring them!
A Nanny
The fact that so many nannies who participate on this blog are so vocal against the bad nannies that are described here attests to the fact that there are good nannies out there. They are rightly offended that these charlatans are giving their PROFESSION (yes, Nanny is just as much a profession as doctor, lawyer, teacher) a bad name. Don't settle for anything less than a professional nanny for your children. To find them, check references, confirm they are legal, don't pay off the books (filing an I9 is the only sure way to verify someone is not giving you false documentation), drop in and observe your children carefully.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mom! :)
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