#nanny life

[harrywavycurly]

You know what I can’t stand? When Mom’s at the playground look at me like I have 6 heads for going at the pace of the toddler I nanny for. She has severe social anxiety like if someone is at the park she will not be playing so we sometimes get to the park, walk around the trail and look at the playground and she says “i don’t think so, not today” so we turn around and head for the car after doing another lap on the trail. Like don’t look at me like I’m weird for coming to the playground for 3 minutes, sometimes it’s all she can do and that’s fine don’t think for a minute that just because these kids aren’t mine that I won’t fight you over them😂🙈 okay sorry rant over.

[sasha199]

I spent my second day at work trapped in a chair for 2 hours, held hostage by a 4 month old who decided my titties were the perfect pillow she needed to finally nap.

[verysmallgirl]

i quit my job (for like a billion reasons) and i have to go by the house this week to say goodbye to the boys i watch and i’m so so so so so sad and i know they will be too

[ms-macklemore]

If I asked you how old this child is, how old to you think they are and what do you think this word is?

[jackabelle73]

This is the box that my Christmas gift from my employers came in. For context, I’m a nanny. I take care of their baby.

[admiralatthebowofnails]

Today I put my foot down. Do I need a job? Yes. Do I need a job where I'm paid less than half of minimum wage to be a housewife 24hrs/day, 5 days/week? From a family who screwed me over earlier this year by offering me a full-time job, then canceling on me two days before I start? Nope.

[barefootbaltimore]

When you hold a baby you gotta squeeze em. Gotta wring the oxytocin right out of em.

[peach-au-barca]

Replace (e-mails I have to respond to) with (children to entertain and care for) 🙃🙃🙃 horrifying. Red rising more like dread rising ✊🏽

I could have lived in peace (stayed warm in my bed) but my enemies (job that pays my bills) brought me war (e-mails i have to respond to)

[harrywavycurly]

I had another run in with the mean park moms today and this little boy was running around the mulched playground barefoot and one of the toddlers I nanny for said “why is he doing that?” And I look at the little boy’s mom then back at her and before I could stop myself I said “I’m not sure. We don’t play at the playground barefoot it’s tacky and unsafe.” So naturally she glared at me but I stand by my statement. It’s unsafe to play barefoot…the tacky part I didn’t need to say but I was in my feelings🙈 but needless to say they won’t be giving me or my little girls rude looks anymore they’ll simply be avoiding us and that’s even better.😂💖

Me after I said it was tacky and unsafe to be barefoot:

[verysmallgirl]

one thing i love about being a nanny is that sometimes the family i work for leaves the country for two weeks without me, so i get a paid vacation that doesn’t come out of my pto!!!

[fandomohana]

I just realized, while going through my memories, my littlest is now 16 years old. 😭 He was my first, real little one, he was just over a year old when he came home. I'd been working with his four older siblings since August, and was told there would be a fifth coming from Guatemala. With international adoption, the timeline is always up in the air.

I can't believe he is 16 now...where did that chubby cheeked baby that I used to rock, and sing Over the Rainbow to, to get him to nap, go?

The little baby that used to chase his older siblings, yelling, duys! He couldn't quite pronounce his Gs then. 🤣🤣🤣

The five year old that told me he didn't want to go to school, because he wanted to stay home with me. 🥹

I miss you, my not so little dude, and I will always love you, your brother, and sisters. 💙 I know you probably don't remember me now, I'm just a name on a birthday card, but all of you wrote your names on my heart. 💙

[ms-macklemore]

and then they get older and ask things like “hey Mack, do girls fart?” and you have to PHYSICALLY restrain yourself from laughing in an 11 year olds face.

Spending time with kids always reminds me how much I love the way they play. I’ll be like “hey kid look, this little bug is called an isopod it’s related to crabs and it eats dead plants” and they’ll immediately respond with something like “cool let’s play isopods we have to collect dead leaves as fast as we can and if we don’t get enough we die of starvation and have a bug funeral”

What an amazing way to process new information or explore an idea! It’s important to remember these kinds of games are not random or pointless; playing is how kids learn.

[admiralatthebowofnails]

Being a parent/nanny/witch/fairy is so weird. I've got alarms for both Shabot (for two of my Jewish kiddos) and church (for my adopted teen). Alarms for my own worship? That's on more of an "Ok, Loki, I get it. I've been neglecting you. Now, if I take some cinnamon to the alter, will you please bring back the new roll of green dog bags?" sort of schedule.

[barefootbaltimore]

How many of someone else's bodily fluid have you gotten on yourself today? I'm up to 3 🥲

[sunderwight]

Bingyuan modern ABO AU where Shen Yuan tutors sweet white lotus Luo Binghe and dutifully sends him off to university all prepped and ready to take the world by storm, and then three years later Omega Binghe shows up on his doorstep with a baby, all washed out with his prospects ruined and the father in the wind.

Beta Shen Yuan, furious, is determined to look after Luo Binghe and his adorable baby whilst tracking down the feckless Alpha involved and then... castrating him? Forcing him to step up? One of the two at least!

Only it turns out:

-Baby isn't actually Luo Binghe's

-Luo Binghe isn't an Omega

-Binghe also didn't wash out and in fact just came into a massive inheritance

He didn't even know Shen Yuan was living at the apartment he went to, he was bringing the baby to Shen Jiu in order to blackmail him. The baby is SJ's and Omega Yue Qingyuan's, and had been quietly sent away to avoid scandal. As the next phase of Luo Binghe's hundred-step plan to marrying Shen Laoshi, cuddling the baby in a vaguely sinister fashion while making thinly-veiled threats was vital to blocking Shen Jiu's inevitable attempts to interfere with Binghe's pursuit of his younger brother.

But then Shen Yuan opened the door and promptly drew all the wrong conclusions, and now Binghe is rethinking his entire strategy, furiously googling Alpha-to-Omega transition options and making Mobei Jun make Shang Qinghua find out how to fake a birth certificate for a stolen baby.

[harrywavycurly]

Work Rant: So one of the little girls I nanny for is 3 and she’s a fellow Virgo so she’s super independent and if yall don’t know when you’re raising/helping raise an independent child you have to have extra patience because them wanting to do things for themselves often requires extra time/energy. So that being said, she is now in the “I can buckle myself” phase of her life and I’m fine with it, but wanna know who’s not fine with it? The other mom’s in the parent pick up line at her Mother’s Day out program. They legit honked at me the other day because I let her buckle herself into her seat and it takes like 2-3 minutes but I let her do it because 1) it’s not worth a fight and 2) she is proud of herself every time she does it and her having good self esteem is important. I swear one day these ladies are going to make me go off on them and it’s not going to be pretty.

Me @ the other mom’s in the pickup line when they honk at me: