When: On Wed. April 14th
Where: Washington Square Toddler Park
Time: 3:30 - 4 ish
What: While I was at Washington Square park today (the toddler playground on the Northwest portion of the park, it includes a climber and swings) I observed your nanny and her friend sitting on the bench while your children screamed in their strollers. For the entire time I was there (45 minutes) your children sat in their strollers and cried. Your nanny and another nanny proceeded to talk and rock the strollers as your children sat in them. The children in the double stroller were clearly disturbed and one child was crying very loudly. The kids were never removed from this position. I took a picture because if it was my child I would want to know how they were spending their afternoon. If there are any questions you can contact me directly.
How sad. Feel sorry for those children. Hope parents see this- makes you wonder how those children are treated, behind doors, at home.
ReplyDeleteThe blocked out photo clearly shows at least one child in distress.
ReplyDeleteGreat sighting, I hope someone recognizes the nannies and tells the parents.
ReplyDeleteSounds like this park was not a place to witness good nannying this morning!
ReplyDeleteAs a former nanny who is desperately looking for a job, this bothers me... First of all its too nice in NYC right now for the kids to be stuck in the strollers. If you are going to the playground it is pure torture to have awake kids strapped into the stroller. Kids at playground = playtime, especially to a child. And then you sit there on the benches like nobodys business. There are lots of nannies out there looking for jobs and if you do not do yours, mummy sure will find someone else who will. So please, do your job and stop making other nannies look bad....
ReplyDeleteStroller training at it's best - those kids haven't completed the program yet - give it another 6-9 mos and they will learn to sit quietly with vacant stares. Kids being stroller trained only get to come out of the stroller for diaper changes and then they go right back in. And in the winter, they must sit their all bundled up in their winter coats - even if the nanny is shopping for a few hours on 6th Ave - they get over heated this way and it makes them very sleepy (and quiet)
ReplyDeleteFrom anonymous:
ReplyDeleteHow sad! How can you even stand to listen to a kid cry for 45 minutes? I agree with Nanny Sarah: can you imagine if they are behaving like this out in public, how they behave toward these children at home, behind closed doors?
I've never understood leaving a child in a stroller, especially if they are crying. I take my 8 month old charge to the park all the time and the only time he is in his stroller is when I'm walking to and from the house. If we are at the park I'm pushing him on the swing, going down the slide with him, showing him the birds, letting him play in the sand....never is he just sitting there screaming.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is these women see their job as just that, a job, and you can't do that when kids are involved. If you get to the point that it's just a job you need to quit.
Now why were you in the toddler playground again for 45 mins???? Was it a slow work day or do you have nothing better to do? With all of this "sitter snapping" going on "you people" need to start babysitting "your" own bad behaving, rude, unruly, out of place children.
ReplyDeleteWould you have preferred they run around the park screaming and crying or would you have liked seeing them stand up and cry? YOU DECIDE!!! Stop reading more into it than what's really there!!!
LOL, I do believe "You Aint She Shhh" may be featured in a photo on this site:) Sadly she will probably just sit the kids in front of the tv at home and ignore them instead of bringing them out in public where she can get caught being a bad nanny.
ReplyDeleteYou Ain'You Ain't See Shhhhh ...
ReplyDeleteBetter alert your friends their picture is on here so they can have a story ready if their employers see it.
Why was OP at the toddler playground for 45 mins?
ReplyDeleteUh, maybe OP is a nanny with her charge at the playground. Or a PARENT with his/her charge at the playground.
Are you REALLY that stupid? You MUST be one of the nannies in the picture.
And what would be preferred? Either the kids running around screaming and PLAYING like kids SHOULD do at parks, or at home learning how to behave, by GOOD nannies.
The kids wouldn't be "bad behaving, rude, unruly, out of place children" if they weren't being forced to be out of place, stuffed in a stroller watching other kids have fun.
I mean, a parent with his/her child. Typed the "ch" and "arge" followed.
ReplyDeleteI just can't understand this. I know there are nannies out there that are absolutely not going to let the kids run all around the park, but couldn't they at least (at least!) stick them in a swing so they could have a little (just a little) bit of fun? Does that really require too much energy?
ReplyDeleteNannies like this make me crazy. Great posting OP. I'm surprised you were able to get such a great, clear picture without them noticing. Shows how much attention they were paying to anything other than themselves.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a nanny in my city. They must never come outside.
ReplyDeleteGood post OP
Sorry, but that nanny looks HARD.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you can always judge a book by a cover, but can you picture that bitch cooing to a baby? Well, then you must have one helluvan imagination!
@ SAHM and others
ReplyDeleteYou believe I've been featured on this site? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!!!! Unlike my legion of sisters who find themselves in this "occupation" I received the memo notifying me that slavery was over. Not even the current unemployment rate and the desperation for jobs would drive me to become ANYONE'S modern day mammy.
Get it straight and once again . . . stop reading more into it than what's really there!!! If you feel the need to you should start babysitting "your" own bad behaving, rude, unruly, out of place children.
Being a nanny isn't an easy job. But many people take it a job knowing they have no intention of doing a nanny job. They answer the interview questions just right, after all they've probably seen real nannies in action. They know what to do. Taking children out in a stroller for a stroll and getting fresh air is great. But my number one problem I see is with nannies like these who take their children to a park, park their butts on a bench and the children do not move from the strollers. Sometimes the children are ignored, there strolelrs jostled harshly. Other times they are fed doritos or chocolate to keep them quiet. The sad thing is that the parent thinks their child is on a healthy excursion. Out at the park. In the grass. On a slide. Interacting with children.
ReplyDeleteI do wonder though how many parents know they have below average nannies. An average nanny is going to cost you. A better nanny is going to really cost you. And then with a better quality of nanny you might have to dial up your mutual respect. At the end of the day, working parents come home and they hear what the nanny tells them. "We went to the park, and Jasper played and played and we met a little girl named Petunia and blah blah blah" and the parents look around the house and if nanny is also their housekeeper and does their laundry and they have fresh sheets on their bed, I think the parents choose their convenience over their child's well being. Not always, but a lot of time.
To you aint seen Shhhh..,
ReplyDeletePerhaps it is the fear of working in a role that is so similiar to slavery that causes so many Islanders, who have never been nor do not have a history of slavery to take a job and burn the white man by taking a salary and delivering nothing.