Nanny Dumps Kids in Daycare

re: Nanny Dumps Kids in Daycare

milipan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:40:23 GMT

I am so glad that my husband and I made the decision that I stay at home with my son instead of taking him to daycare. I love the fact that there is never room for doubt in our minds that our son is always okay. I don't mean to vilify working parents, but I really think that they should put the well-being of their kids above everything else and should only have them if they are prepared to take care of that child themselves. I know that not all parents can afford to have one parent stay at home, but if they can make it work, they should.

re: Nanny Dumps Kids in Daycare

Alice — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:40:12 GMT

See, if it suits them people will leave their kids with just anybody so as not to inconvenience themselves. I can ahrdly believe that not one parent in 5 years dropped in on their child with the nanny.

re: Nanny Dumps Kids in Daycare

patricia — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:36:28 GMT

Thanks, Keri. It's interesting to me that the comments over at NPR (the readership of which I would have expected to be a little more enlightened) mostly castigate the parents for leaving their kids with a caregiver. Are we ever going to get past this reflexive judgment of working parents? Do people really think that one shouldn't have children if both parents have to work? Because in this day and age, I would guess that more and more families need both incomes just to get by.

It just makes me depressed. Why isn't it the awful nanny who is receiving the blame?

re: Nanny Dumps Kids in Daycare

KeriF — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:27:02 GMT

Here's the story as reported on NPR:

www.npr.org/.../story.php

re: Nanny Dumps Kids in Daycare

patricia — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:47:26 GMT

Keri, I'm not seeing a link to the story. Do you happen to have one? Thanks!

re: Nanny Dumps Kids in Daycare

Shannon LC Cate — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:02:43 GMT

Sort of a child-care Ponzi scheme.