This occurred Wednesday, 9/17, in New York City at a little outdoor seating area on 88th between second and third, around 3:30-4. The nanny was african american or spanish, wearing brown pants, a brown top and black flip flops. The child was a little girl, who looked to be between six months and a year old, sitting in her stroller. She had blonde hair and big blue eyes, and was wearing some sort of pink ensemble with white socks (one was off).I was sitting in the area reading a book when the nanny and her charge came and sat down. I was sitting in the park with them for about twenty minutes. The nanny was on her phone the entire time, she didn't interact with the child once. The little girl seemed really bored. I smiled at her and made faces at her from across the park, and she was really sweet and smily with me. When i would return to my book she would let out a little squeal until i looked at her and then would resume making faces and smiling at me. I felt awful for her because she was so clearly bored to just be sitting in her stroller. She would occasionally look at her nanny for attention, but the woman barely acknowledged her.
If this is your child, please find a new nanny! Ill do it, your kid is a sweetie. we smile bonded.
4 comments:
I may be in the minority, but I don't think that keeping a 6 month old baby in a stroller for 20 minutes is anything horrendous. Babies that age always smile at people making silly faces. It doesn't mean they are miserable and bored without someone entertaining them constantly.
i'm not trying to defend the truly uncaring nannies who neglect the kids and don't care to interact with them, but i can't tell this is really the same thing.
twenty minutes for the nanny to take a phone break? doesn't sound like a very long break to me.
in fact, i think it's important for kids of all ages to have some periods of time in each day to entertain themselves.
I agree with the two previous posters. A baby that young can't run around and play or anything of the sort just yet. The most you could probably do is take her out for a few minutes before she starts to get uncomfortable and squirm out of your arms. They generally don't like being held at that age for long periods of time.
The nanny on the phone, well, her attention was on the baby. And generally the friendly ones do smile at anyone or anything that get their attention.
So don't make too big a deal of this one.
There are far worst offenders to critique.
Thanks for your post and concern anyway OP.
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