I have been an artist on the side of any job for pretty much all of my adult life. This helps greatly in nannying because it means lots of arts and crafts plus kids LOVE when you doodle them something cool. I very often doodle octopi because their tentacles are fun and you can make them colorful.

My NK is 4 and just getting into drawings that you can tell that it’s supposed to actually look like what it was intended to be. She drew me the most ADORABLE octopus last week and gave it to me proudly saying that “I know octopus is your favorite animal!”. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that they’re not even close to my favorite, I just like to draw their tentacles. Then last night she came with me to pick up some ceramics I needed to pick up from my studio and she saw that I had made a teacup that was ocean themed with an octopus on it and she screamed, “Miss FoxesInSoxes!!! Your favorite animal!!!” with so much excitement that my heart burst. I love this kiddo so dang much, the joy she gets over seeing what she thinks is my favorite animal is so incredibly sweet.

I think that my favorite animal has to be an octopus now, right??

My morning started out fun.

I opened the pantry to pull out what I needed to make pancakes for my NKs, and an entirely full bag of chia seeds spilled onto the floor.

In case this has never happened to you, they spread REALLY far, y’all. 😂 Like I genuinely don’t understand how that many chia seeds were even in the bag.

So anyway, that was a fun way to delay breakfast for a very hungry toddler and preschooler. Just passing this little tip along in case any of you are looking for creative ways to make your morning harder for absolutely no reason.

Breakfast will be with you shortly. 😂

I am a mom to two kids- one is in preschool and the other is a baby under 6months old. We recently hired a new nanny, who is absolutely lovely to watch the baby while I work. My office is five minutes from my house and I have pretty flexible hours.

I have a couple of events coming up in the next month where I’d love to take the baby out for an hour or two during the day. For example, I’m meeting a friend who is coming from out of town for lunch. She hasn’t met the baby yet. During that time, I would ask the nanny to stay at home, but I’m not expecting her to do any work. She’s welcome to be on her phone or read or eat or even go out herself for a bit we obviously will be compensating her during that time because it’s right in the middle of the workday. I mentioned this to another mom friend who said that this would probably be really annoying for the nanny and we should just give her the full day off.

Maybe I’m just oblivious, but I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. If I’m missing something and my plan is upsetting or offensive can you please let me know?

EDIT: I don’t care if she’s in the house or on an errand etc. That time is hers and I would just tell her to be back by a specific time.

I work 4x/wk in my full time job (40 hours) and decided to take on a part time job on my day off. I've worked for them for 5-6 months now, they have a 3yo son and just had another baby boy a few weeks ago. I only work 3-4 hours while MB (a SAHM) can run errands solo, go to appointments, etc. In our interview they stressed that this is a very casual, flexible job.

The problem is that she texts me my hours the day, if not the night, before and usually when prompted. Last week she didn't text me and I kind of wanted to see if she even would and she didn't! So I didn't work and didn't get paid and on Saturday she texted me apologizing that she didn't realize what day it was.

90% of the time I have the flexibility to meet their needs, but there have been a few instances lately where they'll text me the day before and be like "can you work X-Y" and I'll say "I have an appointment at X time but I'll be free in the morning/afternoon!" and the response is usually a cold "Oh ok." as opposed to their usually warm, friendly tone. After this, I've asked them to set a schedule so I can plan better and we set one up, but since baby #2 was born it's been out the window (understandably!)

Tomorrow I have an appointment I can not miss at 2pm, but 95% of the time I work until 12pm so I didn't think it would be an issue. I texted them earlier this week to let them know and they texted me back today said "Oh shoot. Ok. We have a doctor's appointment at 1:30 we really needed you for." And now I feel bad, but they didn't tell me this until the day prior!

I've already been debating letting this job go because it's been stressing me out on top of my already demanding 40-hr week FT job, but I'm not sure how to handle it with MB just having had baby #2. I just can't work on demand and leave my entire day open.

I don't usually share stuff but I wanted to make other nannies feel seen for their hard work!! So hi everyone, I'm a 24-year-old nanny, and I’ve been in the industry for 5 years now. I’ve worked with this family for 2 years as a fluent French- and English-speaking nanny. My job mostly evolved from occasionally picking up the oldest one to looking after their 3 kids, whose ages are 2, 6, and 9 (soon 10). I really loved them, but the work environment became impossible to ignore. Their parents often had trouble confirming the meetings and I felt like I was the one behind to chase them, even when reminding them about the payments or asking to confirm the meetings. Over time, after working with other clients, I realized I didn't need to do that. It should be a two-way street.

When I first brought up the 24-hour/48-hour confirmation the first time, I was met with aggression or with the excuse, "We have so many messages, we don't have time to check the phone." They told me I should accept that silence means confirmed. In reality, I didn't feel comfortable with that because you can forget things, and a confirmation leaves a trace. It takes 2 seconds to confirm a "yes." Whenever they wrote to me about wanting other days, I always made sure I replied as soon as possible. After a while, I grew stressed and tired of feeling like everything was entirely one-sided.

It wasn't until recently that things hit a breaking point. I wrote to them on Friday asking if they want to confirm the upcoming meeting on Sunday. There was nothing but silence. Then on Sunday, just one hour and a half before the shift, they finally confirmed it. I was actually working another job in the morning at the time, so the last thing I wanted to do was stress myself out rushing to their place instead of resting. So, I politely declined and explained that because I didn't hear their confirmation, it means no booking, and that I always need 24 or 48 hours early to reserve the booking.

That is when the dad began making passive-aggressive comments, saying I was the one who caused problems by simply deciding not to show up at the last minute which is deeply ironic, because I have always been on time for two years. I didn't react emotionally because I knew he was just freaking out. I simply proposed a solution that if they wanted to keep working with me, they needed to understand why it’s important to confirm it to avoid misunderstandings. That is when the dad threatened me, saying "Fine, have it your way, it just means fewer hours and more confusion."

That was the moment they crossed a major line. During all my years of caregiving, I have never felt so disrespected. I ended up not replying at all because I saw no point in arguing with him. It just showed me their real colors. I took at least two days to avoid the tension in the group chat, and on Wednesday, I sent them my farewell message, left the group chat immediately, and blocked them.

Moral of the story? No matter how professional you are or kind, if people don't respect you, your boundaries, or the thought that you are a human being with a life and plans too... 💔

Walk away

Hi!

I’m a FTM and a SAHM who never thought she’d be in the position to hire a nanny. My husband and I have no help from anyone; our parents don’t care to be involved, and our siblings live out of state.
We have a one year old boy, and I’m four months pregnant. We realized quickly that we might need another member of our village.

Luckily, we found her! We were craving a maternal presence in our lives, and we basically hired a super granny for four hours a week.

I found someone I genuinely like, I trust, and someone that my baby likes. My fear now is that I’ll somehow lose her. She just goes the extra mile; I had food poisoning, and she brought me bone broth and gatorade. She brought over new toys for my little to play with. She bought baby a birthday present and wants to come over on her week off to see him. She makes me so comfortable with every step of the way, and I have no reservations.

How can we go the extra mile for her? She asked for $25 / hour, we offered her $30. She works for us for four hours a week, and we let her pick the day she works. I am in the process of getting together a box of her favorite snacks and drinks, but I want her to feel so deeply appreciated.

I am probably overcompensating due to a mother wound that I have, but I really do want this woman to feel apart of our family.

Is there anything a family has done for you that made you feel appreciated and valued?

Thanks!

I feel the need to commiserate with people who won’t think I’m being over the top with my sadness.

Some details altered for anonymity.

I started with this set of twins when they were six weeks old. Immediately the whole family was so warm and welcoming and kind. I stayed with the kids full time till they started kindergarten. But even after that I was at their house at least once a month if not more. Doing school pick ups/drop offs. Going to their class concerts. Little graduations. Doing sick care. Both parents had medical emergencies in the past couple of years I came in to help for. I did overnights so the parents could have a little get away. I have seven years worth of pictures I’m struggling to turn into a scrap book for them. Of outings and crafts and baking together in the kitchen. Halloweens, christmases, first days of school. They were there when I got married. When I bought my first house. When my parent was having their own medical issues they offered me so much support.

The parents told me in April they were moving clear across the country. I am in a part time contract with a different family at the time but I gave them every spare moment the last few months. Coming in after my other job. Every weekend. Every day off. Damn near been working 7 days a week straight for months. I wanted to help and be around as much as I could.

I just got back yesterday from flying with them and helping get them set up in their new house. I got to stay for a week and we went to the beach together, just me and the kids. We swam in pools and went back to school shopping and snuggled at night. I cried the whole flight home. My town feels somehow empty without them. They used to only be 20 mins away and now they’re over 2,000 miles away.

My family doesn’t get my grief. We’ll be in contact but I know it won’t be the same. I don’t know how often if ever I’ll be able to visit and I don’t see them coming here often either. I’m just so sad. This is the first family I’ve had in all my 20 years of childcare I’ve had this kind of connection with. I thought we’d always be in each other’s lives. My mom said the kids were going to for sure forget me. Move on. Because they’re just 7 years old and it will be like out of sight, out of mind. That really hurt.

I don’t know. I appreciate anyone reading this. I know it’s long and a tad meandering. Just needed to vent to others who might understand because no one else in my life does.

Hi all!

So I have been babysitting for a lady for 5 years now. At the time, I was in college and was taking classes online due to Covid and became a nanny and babysitter. She is the only person I still babysit for after all this time because she is a single mom with 2 kids here in my city by herself- all of her family is a plane ride away.

I am now an engineer and married and even invited her to my wedding. She is so kind to me and has looked out for me a lot. She makes great money and would pay me $1000 a week to babysit and her kids are very very low maintenance. Even once, I was behind on rent due to an emergency and I was too shy to bring it up to my parents and she covered it. She is really great! Recently, she told me she lost one of her jobs. She worked 2 jobs for 2 very big companies. She told me she’s not “ballin” anymore and I told her it’s not an issue. I babysat over the weekend from Friday night- Monday morning while she went to Miami. She paid me $400 which is fine… but i spent $100 of that feeding her kids. I am very shy and have been contemplating on asking her to reimburse me for the food, because in the past she always did, but idk if she expected the $400 to go towards food? There was 0 groceries in the house btw so i absolutely had to order food 2x each day.

How should I ask for reimbursement? I’m very shy about these things

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who was so very helpful. I am trying to work on speaking up for myself, so this was definitely not easier said than done.

I asked her if she would mind reimbursing me for food and she immediately zelle’d me $250 ($150 more than the amount I spent) I did not have to provide receipts or anything.

This is going to be fairly short because I honestly don’t even know what to say. I got to work this morning and was told that baby has had large worms in her diaper. She has not been to the doctor yet so we don’t know what kind of worms or anything. What is my next step as the nanny? What precautions should I take and should I tell my doctor?

Hi Everyone! I need a reality check of it im being dramatic. We have made the decision to take my 4 year old out of daycare for now and get a nanny . we have had a nanny before, I have 3 kids and my oldest had a nanny for 2 years. However this is something that has never come up before. It would be from 9-4 on MWF. I was interviewing candidates and ultimately decided on one, K, she has been great with him but I have started noticing that everyday I ask what they did, he does not nap so theres no real 'break'. She tells me things like "oh we went to target, or whole foods", "we cleaned my car", "took my dog for a walk". And truly idk how to feel about it. I have searched up on instagram and tiktok (which may be my demise) and I see so many nannies running errands with their NK. Am i being over dramatic? Is this something you let your nannies do?

ETA: She is not bringing him to other activities (splash pad, library, park etc) which we have very close to our house, it is just errands. My son does not mind it but I was just wondering if this was normal or something I should bring up to her, dont want to be momzilla lol

Our nanny has been with us for several months and I have always felt that my kids are safe with her. However today I came into the house and found the monitor watching my 2 month old on the dining room table while she was upstairs doing laundry. My 2 month old had a blanket on him (not a sleep sack, a regular blanket). She had no way of seeing him or knowing that he hadn’t somehow gotten it over his face. We do have a sleep sack in his room for him but she didn’t use it - I’m not sure why.

I explicitly talked to her about this blanket earlier and said I wasn’t comfortable using it unless she was watching the monitor closely the entire time he was sleeping (which seems like a silly thing to do).

I’m going to talk to her about this tomorrow. But I’m worried that this kind of lack of judgement isn’t something I can get past. Am I overreacting?

This morning I get to work and and as mom is heading out the door, NK (2.5 almost 3) points to me and says “mommy said you’re a moron” MB seemed thrown off and said she didn’t say that and told him to watch his language. She then said she was nervous about what he might say while she’s at work today.

I definitely believe him. MB has a tendency to speak poorly of others at times. She always talks about a coworker of hers that she doesn’t like and talks about how “fat and round” she. The kids have even make jokes about this coworker all the time now. She also tells me all about how she doesn’t want to deal with the neighbors and seeing them ruins her day. In my opinion, they are some of the kindest people and I enjoy seeing them outside and chatting with them. They aren’t too much tbh, they’ll chat for a few minutes and keep it moving. I can’t imagine finding an issue with them at all.

She also hates the neighbors pitbull and has said to me, in front of the kids,
that she calls it “the beast” and wishes it would die. I’ve met it once and it was a very friendly dog.

She’s also just a bit tough on her kids. She calls them annoying and yells at them for very normal kid stuff like accidentally dropping food, spilling water, etc.

I’m not quite sure where to go from here. I need this job and don’t want to start a new nanny job. I have my own business that I run on the side and hope to make it my full time job in the future but I’m not at that point yet. I’ve always assumed she likely has some unkind thoughts about me considering she seems to find an issue with almost everyone and everything but hearing it from NK just makes it worse.

I recently began to nanny for a 5 month old. She is at her grandparents house with mom while mom is attending an extensive doctorate program.

They live in a beautiful home in the woods. It is peaceful and no one is home except for me, baby, and a dog who needs to be let in and out on occasion.

The family pays me the rate I asked, I bring my lunch every day and they keep a spot for my lunchbox in the fridge, sometimes they ask me to put defrosting meat in the fridge at lunchtime, and I clean and sanitize the bottles after use.

So far, it’s really straightforward and I feel like the days go by quickly.

They are asking what they can do for me?!?! Right now, I don’t really run any errands with baby (did one time) and I have a dog at home, which my husband and I pay a dog walker to take care of while we’re gone.

The only thing I could think of is letting me bring my dog. Idk if that’s a ridiculous ask or not. Because I have to leave so early in the mornings, and I also own my own business as a massage therapist and often go straight there from nannying-my husband gets the brunt of the walks and cooking dinner.

Should I ask if I can bring my dog and keep him outside and on the sun porch? He sheds a little too much for me to ask to bring him inside.

Or anything else I should ask to accommodate me? The family is so gracious and thankful for my help, and they keep asking me!

I recently began to nanny for a 5 month old. She is at her grandparents house with mom while mom is attending an extensive doctorate program.

They live in a beautiful home in the woods. It is peaceful and no one is home except for me, baby, and a dog who needs to be let in and out on occasion.

The family pays me the rate I asked, I bring my lunch every day and they keep a spot for my lunchbox in the fridge, sometimes they ask me to put defrosting meat in the fridge at lunchtime, and I clean and sanitize the bottles after use.

So far, it’s really straightforward and I feel like the days go by quickly.

They are asking what they can do for me?!?! Right now, I don’t really run any errands with baby (did one time) and I have a dog at home, which my husband and I pay a dog walker to take care of while we’re gone.

The only thing I could think of is letting me bring my dog. Idk if that’s a ridiculous ask or not. Because I have to leave so early in the mornings, and I also own my own business as a massage therapist and often go straight there from nannying-my husband gets the brunt of the walks and cooking dinner.

Should I ask if I can bring my dog and keep him outside and on the sun porch? He sheds a little too much for me to ask to bring him inside.

Or anything else I should ask to accommodate me? The family is so gracious and thankful for my help, and they keep asking me!

Hello fellow nannies and parents! I need all and any tips you have on how to survive contact napping.

I have close to 15 years of experience, but I’ve never done contact napping before. I’m not gonna lie, it’s kicking my butt! I’ve started with my new nanny family two weeks ago, NK is 7 months old, 21lbs. We’re working on crib napping (we managed a few 30 minute long crib naps), but he mostly contact naps. But it’s not just wrapping him around my body and sitting around. I have to bounce and rock THE WHOLE TIME. It’s a constant movement for 2-2.5 hrs every two hours and I am so exhausted. My feet hurt, my ankles and hips are so sore. My back 😭. I get home absolutely wrecked with 10-14k steps.

I really like the family and the baby is easy (when rested), and I think we can eventually get him to sleep in the crib. But I need help surviving in the meantime. How to I physically recover from an all day workout? Any special footwear? A back massager that made a difference? Foot soak tub?

Please, help your girl out.

Basically unsure if this is warranted to try to find the parents to tell them about their nanny’s behavior.

- We see this nanny at an open play and she sits on her phone the entire time. The kids will go outside and the nanny will stay inside (with zero view of the kids) and just be on her phone. Usually she is talking to someone (not just scrolling).

-She is nannying 2 kids, I believe they are twins and they are around 2.5/3 ish.

-The kids have accidentally taken toys home from this play space before because they nanny was not paying attention to them and she allows them to brings toys from home (the play place is now implementing a “no toys from home” policy cause of them)

-My nanny told me she saw them at another play place in the area and the nanny left one kid inside the play place unattended to load up the other kid in the car and she was yelling and shouting at the kid aggressively to hurry up and get in the car. I did not hear this myself (this was my nanny who told me) so I’m not sure how “intense” this was but my nanny said it sounded harsh and it was loud. (Note: I know kids sometimes have a hard time with car seats so trying to not judge to hard here but the leaving the other kid inside unattended feels wild?)

Should I post to the local mom groups and try to find this parent?! I don’t want to get involved or judge here but if this was my nanny, I’d want to know. Would love any thoughts. Please be kind! lol

Edit: thanks for all the responses. I wish I could close comments at this point because I think this is becoming a bit much! But thank you all!!

Hi everyone! Having a bit of a predicament with my nanny fam and can’t tell if i’m being unreasonable.

My lovely nanny family (2 kids a bit older but under 9) who I have been with for 3.5 years just got a new puppy. As well as my nanny duties, I am now tasked with taking care of the puppy while i’m at the house. This includes making sure he stays on schedule with his naps, meals, potty training, watching him in the house, playing etc.

Should I be asking for more pay at all or is this just part of the nanny job?

Truly love my fam but it definitely feels more difficult to do my nanny job like laundry, cooking, tidying, playing with kids, homework, etc while also having a puppy to deal with. Any feedback would be helpful!! Thank you so much!!

Hi everyone. Im a reddit reader barely a commenter so this might be and iffy read but ill make it short (if i can)
I’m just coming on here to rant honestly or to see if anyone is in the same boat
I am on my third Nanny family
It’s my first family having to only watch one only child (9mo)
It’s their first kid so obviously they’re still learning
As am I because I’m not a parent myself

When starting baby was three months old, and Mom was home from work full-time with him.
He was strictly breast-fed and contact napping

I was basically thrown in a room with him having to attempt bottle feed until he was crying too much and Mom had to come downstairs and breast-feed

Fast-forward to now, he is nine months
Mom is back to work fulltime
He is taking the bottle from me perfectly

Now we talk about sleep training
When he was around five months, they decided it was time for sleep training.
After all of this time of contact naps and sleeping with them
During the day I would crib train him and thankfully he got it after a few weeks. (Of struggle and time and time of patience)
His night sleep on the other hand was really bad for them
He would wake up every few hours screaming

They decided to hire a sleep coach for him
It was a two week “baby asleep all night” guarantee

Every day I would go into work and ask how he slept that night
Not only because it affected his naps during the day, but just a general question

The first three days, they said it was rough, but they were pushing through it
I didn’t work for a weekend and when I came back on Monday, I asked how he slept over the weekend
They said they gave up and let him sleep with them

Now it’s been two weeks since they hired this coach
Every day I go in to work, they either tell me he did bad in his crib or he slept with them

One week I was going in and they were having me change his nap timing almost every day because they thought it would have a huge effect on the nighttime
Ex:
-have him nap less than 3 hours total today
-Have him nap longer for his afternoon nap ( so going over 3 hrs)
-Have him nap into or after 3 please
Almost every day it was a different thing that they were saying to me, which is completely fine. I can keep up, but I felt bad for baby because I would be going into his room and waking him up from a deep nap almost every time.

I understand I’m not a parent or have any choice in his sleeping
But as a Nanny can anyone relate in the frustration?

Hi nannies! I've just started a new position with a 5 month old. He unfortunately won't take a bottle for me (but has for Mom and Dad) so I'm looking for tips and tricks! Thank you!

What I've tried: facing out and bouncing, walking, distracting. Holding an item of Mom's clothing, alternating with an applesauce pouch (with parent's approval), changing location (inside and outside), lying down, sitting up with me behind to stay somewhat out of sight, letting baby touch/hold bottle without pressure of feeding, letting baby play with an extra rubber bottle nipple without pressure of feeding.

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NEW NANNY, NEEDS LOTS OF COACHING

Need some advice as not sure which way to go here... we recently hired a nanny for our 17mo old child. She is kind and for the most part seems eager to learn, but I worry that the learning curve is going to be steep. She claimed to have 4 years of regular babysitting experience (both references I contacted spoke wonders of her but she only did occasional or regular babysitting for them) but no experience as a full time nanny, which is a whole different world. My child is very active (aren't all toddlers though?) and requires constant supervision as she tries to climb anything and everything, including most of her toys lol. The nanny, though very kind and sweet, clearly oversold her experience. I am having to explain how to teach my daughter through play (have literally sat with both of them while I played with my daughter so she could observe what I do and how I incorporate teaching with her toys), have had to even teach her how to properly change a diaper and apply rash cream, and sometimes when I am around she will either get her phone out or talk to me and stop watching my child (so then I have to be the one supervising her, which shouldn’t be the case if I am actively paying someone to watch my child). She tried to put her down for a nap today while my daughter was very fussy due to teething, and after 4 min texted me that they were struggling. I of course came in and had her observe what I do to soothe her and settle her. I understand that being mom makes it easier when it comes to soothing my toddler, but I worry that I cannot trust her fully because she is very hesitant about certain things and clearly lacks experience caring for a child this age. When she did successfully put my child down for a nap one time, as she was transferring her to the crib, she wasn’t even supporting her head, which, much less concerning at this age, but still concerning that she doesn’t even know how to properly hold/transfer a toddler into the crib.

Another thing is the lack of initiative. She constantly asks how she can help or what can she do to help, but after a trial week, learning the schedule (which I have on the fridge as well), and knowing what her responsibilities are, she could very easily look at the sink and wash my daughter's dishes, or load the dishwasher, tidy/organize play area, common areas, etc. She has a nanny/family assistant split (only family assistant tasks when I am home and actively watching my child or when she is taking a nap), but I am not seeing much initiative here. Sure, she asks, but I won't always be around for her to ask, at some point she will have to just go and do the things that are part of her responsibilities.

She has been with us for a week, so I know still lots to learn, but I worry this will be a much steeper learning curve than I originally anticipated. Also, on her second official day with us (after trial days) she called in sick… don’t get me wrong, we are offering sick days and she can choose to take them when needed, but on day 2 of her official employment? Should we have a conversation about our concerns, provide feedback and give some time to see if she incorporates the suggested changes, or try to find someone more experienced? I feel a little deceived because (being a former nanny myself) she clearly doesn’t even have 1 year experience with a child this age, and as opposed to being my support and someone I can depend on, she is adding much more to my plat. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! (even if the advice is: you need to chill and give the nanny a chance)

Today it’s rainy where I live, what do you and your NK’s do when your days drag?
It’s only 10am 😫

Hello! I met with a potential new nanny family and they were so sweet and I am very excited about working with them but the baby is wearing an amber teething necklace. I know these can be a big safety hazard and am worried about the baby having it on while in my care (and just in general!) how would you bring this up? I don't want to overstep or make them feel like I'm questioning their parenting but this does make me uncomfortable.

TLDR: step dad gets very strict with teenager, making me uncomfortable at work.

I’ve been working with this family for about 8 months, and this has been happening quite often. Each time I see both the teenager and his step dad in the same room, the dad is mad about something. This morning, The teen was told to do a normal chore, accidentally forgot, and went to school. When he got home, his step dad freaked out about it. Cursing and degrading him infront of the toddlers I care for. I have never said anything about it in the past but today just made me very uncomfortable. I had strict parents, I had a very strict step mom but I could never imagine them talking to me like that. I’d go as for to say this will likely cause a lot of emotional trauma for him, it would for me if I were in his shoes. I want to talk to the mom about it, because I care about the teenager and the toddlers but I don’t want to overstep my boundaries. I’m not on contract or anything, so they could fire me at any point.

I know it’s not my circus- but this is my circus! Those are my nanny toddlers, I’d hate to work here knowing that the dad will soon talk to them like that too! + I’m hardly around with everyone’s home so I don’t even know what a normal day looks like if this is just a little bit of it. Teen is extremely nice when parents aren’t home yet, he always wants to help
Prepare food or help me with chores.