I saw the worst nanny ever! Oh my God. She was wearing tight blue jeans, a tight blue t-shirt (meant to be worn tight). She was AA with a ponytail, real short and like kind of frizzy. She had a boy who was older, like maybe 5? He was white and dressed in a white polo with short sleeves and a pair of navy blue docker type pants. The boy was like "my mom said I could play here before i go home" and the nanny was like, "shut your mouth" and the boy repeated it again and the nanny said, "ya and your mom is batshit crazy". So this isn't quite all of it, right. The nanny had just arrived to the park. Literally, arrived. She had a mcdonald's drink in her hand. The boy runs off to get on some equiptment and she doesn't sit down or anything. She stand there. I kid you not, maybe 60 seconds later she goes, "we need to go". I heard her say a name when she first off called him, but at that point I was further away. The name was definitely unusual. I want to say it was "Connor". This tells me based on what I observed that she told someone she was taking him to the park. She seemed like a sneaky nanny type. Who takes a kid to the park for a minute? Is it so she could say they were at the park? That is what I am guessing.
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Winter Playground in Nyack, NY
Received Thursday, September 10, 2009
I saw the worst nanny ever! Oh my God. She was wearing tight blue jeans, a tight blue t-shirt (meant to be worn tight). She was AA with a ponytail, real short and like kind of frizzy. She had a boy who was older, like maybe 5? He was white and dressed in a white polo with short sleeves and a pair of navy blue docker type pants. The boy was like "my mom said I could play here before i go home" and the nanny was like, "shut your mouth" and the boy repeated it again and the nanny said, "ya and your mom is batshit crazy". So this isn't quite all of it, right. The nanny had just arrived to the park. Literally, arrived. She had a mcdonald's drink in her hand. The boy runs off to get on some equiptment and she doesn't sit down or anything. She stand there. I kid you not, maybe 60 seconds later she goes, "we need to go". I heard her say a name when she first off called him, but at that point I was further away. The name was definitely unusual. I want to say it was "Connor". This tells me based on what I observed that she told someone she was taking him to the park. She seemed like a sneaky nanny type. Who takes a kid to the park for a minute? Is it so she could say they were at the park? That is what I am guessing.
I saw the worst nanny ever! Oh my God. She was wearing tight blue jeans, a tight blue t-shirt (meant to be worn tight). She was AA with a ponytail, real short and like kind of frizzy. She had a boy who was older, like maybe 5? He was white and dressed in a white polo with short sleeves and a pair of navy blue docker type pants. The boy was like "my mom said I could play here before i go home" and the nanny was like, "shut your mouth" and the boy repeated it again and the nanny said, "ya and your mom is batshit crazy". So this isn't quite all of it, right. The nanny had just arrived to the park. Literally, arrived. She had a mcdonald's drink in her hand. The boy runs off to get on some equiptment and she doesn't sit down or anything. She stand there. I kid you not, maybe 60 seconds later she goes, "we need to go". I heard her say a name when she first off called him, but at that point I was further away. The name was definitely unusual. I want to say it was "Connor". This tells me based on what I observed that she told someone she was taking him to the park. She seemed like a sneaky nanny type. Who takes a kid to the park for a minute? Is it so she could say they were at the park? That is what I am guessing.
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Good sighting OP! Even if the nanny thinks his mother is crazy, she shouldn't say that in front of the child, nor should she say the child is crazy right in front of him.
Please, I hope the parents find out about this poor excuse for a nanny
I think this is a good sighting, but only for the language the nanny used. It is totally unnecessary to ever tell a child to shut up and never ever appropriate to say "batshit crazy"!
Other than that, I don't see a problem with them only staying a minute or so. They were probably on a time crunch, which is why nanny thought mom was crazy. She knew they wouldn't have time to stop off at the park and figured only a crazy person would think they would have the time. This is all just my theory though.
PS: since when is Connor an unusual name?
PS: since when is Connor an unusual name?
It's not even remotely unusual. In fact, it's among the highest ranking boy names.
Good point MissMannah:
I've had days that I promised we'd go to the park, but then kid A's teacher wants to talk and kid B has to "go poops NOW!" and then mom calls and asks for a quick trip to the store... I have totally taken kids on 5-10 minutes trips to the park. I ddid it because I told them we would and I'd rather them have 5 minutes on the swing than no time at all!
Obviously, this nanny had a very different motivation behind her actions...
Good sighting. I definitely agree with Miss Mannah about only staying for a minute. I previously nannied for a family where the mother would really want me to take the children to the pool, but give me only an hour (ONE HOUR! to get three children in and out of the neighborhood pool, and dressed again) and would get mad if I didn't take them.
Urgh, the worst part was that she wouldn't ask me, "K, were you able to go to the pool today?" She would ask the children, "Did K take you to the pool?" Soooo passive aggressive.
Anyway, I digress. Horrible for the nanny to use such awful language!
It's more than the language itself!!! I don't care whether the mom is the batshit craziest psycho bitch from hell. It is NEVER OK to badmouth a child's mother in front of or to the child. Period.
I find it interesting that the nanny is almost being defended here. Though no one is defending her right out, it almost seems like she is getting support from the "we've worked for crazy moms" club. I don't care how crazy the mom may or may not be, my hypothesis is that the nanny is the "crazy" one, based on the observed evidence. She sounds mean and extremely inappropriate.
The theory that the mom really is crazy and they are spending a minute at the park because of it doesn't have enough evidence to even call it a theory. :)
I found the Connor as an uncommon name statement amusing. OP, did you mean common?
It is inappropriate to say mom is crazy (bad language or not). I would NEVER say that about my nanny to my son and I would expect that same level of respect in return. I always reinforce to my son that he needs to be respectful of mommy and daddy and nanny...we are a unit! So regardless of the reasons for, or amount of, time spent at the park this is a good sighting.
Even IF it was somehow the "Mom's fault" that they had 60 seconds to spend at the park, the appropriate response from an even halfway decent nanny is, "I'm sorry Connor. We ran out of time today and you're only going to have a minute to swing, because we have to get to baseball practice (or whatever) on time, But we'll come back and spend more time tomorrow."
There is absolutely no reasonable defense to this nanny's behavior, and of she was mine she would have been out of a job. And everybody who called for a reference for her after that would have been told, "She was not a good fit for our family. But then, we're pretty rigid in that we expect our child to be treated respectfully and we expect him not to learn foul language from our nannies."
Jamie, did you or did you not read my first paragraph? I absolutely am not defending this nanny and yes, I do agree she should be fired for speaking that way to the child. The point I was trying to make was for OP to not jump to conclusions that nanny is "sneaky". Sightings should be just that, exactly what is seen, not what we assume is going on.
You just can't say that to a child. period. (And believe me, I've thought it dozens of times at my job). If you don't have the self-control to watch what comes out of your mouth, you shouldn't be a nanny.
Totally off topic, sorry...but where are all you people in Nyack. I've been a nanny here for 9 months (and I am an amazing nanny, my bosses just gave me a thank you card "just because" the other day, man I am loved)...but I am having a very hard time meeting other nannies/mothers around here. I go to the library but have not really met anyone with children around my kiddos age and so we end up going to the park in piermont. The kids there are still a little older but its a nice park.
Anyway, help me! I want to have more local friends :-)
PS-Peytie is just over a year old and I am 24 with 10 years experience in childcare (5 as a nanny)
Amy, it's great that you're appreciated by your family, but when you brag about that and the fact that you are SUCH an amazing nanny, it doesn't make people want to be friends with you. I have a friend from college who does this constantly and it has always annoyed the shit out of me and everyone else who she's friends with.
ew, just because I say it once doesn't mean I am constantly bragging about it like your annoying friend. I am confident in my abilities as a nanny and felt that it was important that I state that here on this site especially because it is usually a site that points out faults in nannies (well mostly au pairs) like this post that we're commenting on. I wouldn't want you or anyone else to get the wrong impression about me, but I am amazing at what I do and I take my profession very seriously. I'm not some "nanny" who is just watching children while going to school to be something else, I choose to be nanny professionally and have been for many years and will be for many many more.
And I wouldn't want someone to be my friend just because I'm a great nanny, that would only make me a good friend to people with children right?? I have many other good qualities as well :-)
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