"I saw your nanny" blog

I think some of the 'nannies' being reported might be moms/step-moms instead. But the comments, and the infighting that would ensue, made for fun reading.

I have to ask this question, though. Twice, Polish nannies were mentioned. How does one single out a Polish woman so easily? I am full-blooded Polish, but I have reddish hair and green eyes with freckles. My spoken Polish has been often mistaken for Russian. Are there really that many Polish nannies? Just curious.

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What interesting reading !LOL Makes you stop and think! LOL

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I looked at the site, and I thought it was a little confusing. How would someone tell a nanny from a mother? I thought alot of the posting were just pointless. If you have so little info about your nanny that such a site would be useful, you should be keeping a close eye on things yourself. I presume that the people who are writing on this site are at these places with their own children, right? So who's watching their kids while they're watching the other nannies? Wonder if any of them see themselves wrote up for ignoring THEIR charges?

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If you look at the very end you'll see the funniest (and possibly grossest) potty training video I've ever seen. Makes me wish I could understand what the words of the song were. It had me laughing and going EWWWW at the same time.

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I'm a member of a local mothers' club and we have a Yahoo internet group, mostly for selling baby items, asking child-related questions, or things like "anyone know a good plumber?" Every so often something like this is posted: "Anyone know a little boy named X, blond hair, playing at Y park this morning with a spanish-speaking nanny? I have some concerns I would like to discuss with his mother." I always wonder how these turn out - is the mother receptive, is the nanny fired? So many people rave about their "wonderful" nannies but have no clue what really goes on. As a stay at home mom, I see it all the time (and yes, I know they are nannies.) One "wonderful" nanny wouldn't take her 2 year old charge out of his stroller at a playgroup because "it is too much work to chase him", yet she was SO friendly and warm to the other moms and nannies. I admit, I'm a wimp - I never brought this to the attention of the mom. I'd love to see a site like this specific to my area.

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I love the idea BUT it's scary to me to have this information out there where anyone could see it. Location, physical description of a child and the Nanny, the child's name AND the fact that the Nanny isn't closely watching the child in many of these cases. Seems like an abducter's dream...

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I liked the website a lot. I think the people who are making the observations are mothers and nannies who are in kid places (ie indoor playparks and out on playgrounds) with their own children and charges. If you are trying to grasp at ways to describe a stranger, I would guess you could listen to thier voice. I don't know if I would know a Polish accent but I know an Irish and Jamaican and English. Who knows? Maybe the poster was polish. The in fighting is insane!

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I love the blog. Thanks for the link. You always unearth the good stuff!

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Karma's a bitch, here's a countersite to all the bad parents/manipulators/slavers we call parents who hire nannies-
http://nannyville.blogspot.com/

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I cant believe you printed the above comment. What ignorance. I have visited the blog and am outraged by people who have made it in to a classist debate. In the area I reside, I could not work if I did not have a nanny. So I hire a nanny. I don't mistreat her. I pay her well. She is very fond of my family-of this I am certain. I have friends who pay their nannies twelve dollars an hour cash and don't provide insurance, they have friends that tell them that is "too much for a nanny", I tell those friends, "it isn't enough". I pay my nanny on the books and she loves her job as much as we love having her. The only way she would appear on that nanny blog is as a good I know this because although I feel I am generous (and as generous as I can be with my nanny and her benefits) I have friends and neighbors who can afford to be still more generous. A good nanny is always in danger of being poached. A good nanny is known by the other mothers and other sitters and I am certain a good nanny is not at all threatened by a blog like the I saw your nanny blog.

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