Frustrations...

I'm sitting on the plane listening to Ke$ha's Tik Tok. :) I'm trying to think of how much better my life is going to be from now on. Who knew how terrible that family could treat their kids.


The family had the audacity to tell me that their previous nannies worked seven days a week for $1000 a month. Fabulous...but if they loved working so much for so little, then why did all the 5-8 nannies before me quit?

I have a theory. I think it's because she and her husband drink every night. He isn't as bad as her, thank goodness.

She got so drunk my last night there that she was slurring her words as she was yelling at her 14 year old. At 2am. While the 14 yr olds friend was spending the night. Classy.

The kids are out of control, and it's because the parents don't really like the inconvenience of having/raising kids. When the kids are acting like kids, they get smacked and told to go to their "fucking room." They get upset because the kids want to hug them when they get home. Everyday they tell the kids to, "get the fuck off, just go away".

One night the four year old came out of her room after bedtime to get a hug and kiss. The mom says, "kiss, hug, kiss hug. I'm fucking tired of all these kisses and hugs. Get in your fucking room I don't want any of your hugs or kisses." the four year old ran to her room and cried herself to sleep.

The mom slapped the 7 yr old so hard that his head hit the granite countertop and started bleeding. He still has the cut on his forehead, and that happened 2 weeks ago.

And then there's the obvious lack of respect for me. I'm a professional. If you expect me to work 24/7 because I'm living in your house, tell me before I'm coming out. Tell me if you are going to infringe on the time off that was verbally promised to me. Your kids are crazy, so yes I do want a but of time away from them. It's not my job to have them when you are home-that's your job. It came out of between your legs, not mine.



For a family who really needs a live in nanny, they treat them like crap. The last two weeks of work were fine, until my last day. They owed me 2 weeks if pay and had said they had payroll problems at work and would pay me before i left. They informed me that they were not going to pay me all the money they owed me because they were put-out and had to scramble to find a new nanny. (I'm sure she will hate that toxic environment and quit) they also informed me that the new nanny was arriving the next day and so I needed to leave by 2pm the next day. (how rude!) so I had to go and get a motel room and luckily I found a friend who would take me to said motel.



I have never been treated as rudely and without respect as that family has treated me. I worked most weeks 6-7 days a week, and usually 14 hour days. I did all their dishes, the family laundry, transportation of the kids, and provided the children with the loving and nurturing care they so desperately needed and were not getting from their parents. I feel so sorry for those 4 kids. They will grow up with severe emotional problems and will hate their parents. I grew to love the kids but could not stay in that toxic environment.