Handing your little darlings over to the care of a relative stranger must be one of the hardest things you can do as a parent.
Or, maybe not. Maybe you’re the kind of mum or dad who kisses the heads of their small ones and then blissfully skips off to work, ecstatic for a day of adult conversation without any childcare responsibilities.
Either way, for those who have one, a nanny must be literally a godsend.
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An actual fairy godmother comes to wrangle your kid into PJs, car seats and dinner times. Not just a babysitter, they’re a professional carer, and if you’re lucky enough, they become like family.
But, in a world where parenting styles trend like fashions and nannies are given a full-frontal view to life inside the home, aren’t you just itching to know what they really think?
So we asked one nanny to dish the dirt and tell us 10 things she wishes she could tell the parents.
1. You are leaving your child in their most important years
“The first five years of a child’s life are the most important – educationally and developmentally – and you are prepared to leave your child with a stranger for such an essential time in their life.
“So many people say, ‘Oh, they’re only a baby, it doesn’t matter’. But it does matter, so I will try my best to shape your child and mould them what I hope you want them to be – but there is no guarantee!
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