Stay At Home Moms/Dads With Nannies (1 Viewer)

[FUBAR]

I don't see if you are a stay at home parent how you would need a nanny in a normal setting. If you are stay at home parent and you have cash to burn, I would just get a maid to come in weekly to help clean up but even that is an obvious huge luxury.

If we truly had cash to burn, I'd hire a nanny for ~10 hours each week. More for tutoring type things than simple survival.

Well, that is called a tutor not a nanny. Those are two different things. A nanny is paid to babysit the kids. Now, obviously a good nanny would help with homework etc but their main job is taking care of the kids- getting them food, keeping them from bodily harm, helping them to the bathroom/change diapers, etc. A tutor is being paid to help them learn outside of the classroom. I don't think you can compare the two. I can see a stay at home parent paying for a tutor. A stay at home parent with a nanny is a different story. I would not say even a nanny is always 'wrong' either but I think that unless there are special needs or the stay at home parent is actually 'working' in other ways (charity work etc) there should be no reason for a nanny other than laziness and bad parenting.

You can find a nanny that tutors and does more than babysit. That's what I'd be looking for and friends of ours have hired.

 

[Fennis]

Carol Brady did it

 

[Chadstroma]

I don't see if you are a stay at home parent how you would need a nanny in a normal setting. If you are stay at home parent and you have cash to burn, I would just get a maid to come in weekly to help clean up but even that is an obvious huge luxury.

We have a lady who cleans every two weeks. We don't have a huge place and it's still $80, but I can't think of better spent money since I don't have to listen to my wife complain about me cleaning. Do just the bare minimum to keep things tidy is enough until she's comes to clean.

Cleaning is again a different story IMO from a nanny.