I Have a Dilemma

[nannyde]

Your clients are your employeers..They are HIRING you to work for them, and that work involves taking care of their child. Since when does a employee call the shots? What gives you the right to DECIDE all these things for someone elses kids? If I came to you and said we are vegitarians, DO NOT give my child meat, I would expect you to follow my orders and NOT give my child meat! I don't care what is on your list to feed my child, you had better listen to me the parent! If I don't want you to give my child cookies, I would expect you to listen and not give cookies behind my back just because you think you have the right to DECIDE what MY child should have! You can be hired and you be FIRED by famlies!

I am soo glad I never had to use daycare for my kids!

Your clients are your employeers.. Man I wish that was right. Tell the IRS they are my employers so they can pay their part of my social security and give the Nan some unemployment benefits when they decide to jump ship. Wouldn't that be SO cool? Wouldn't it be GREAT if every time a client left that we could apply for 18 months worth of a portion of the pay. Oh man ... LegoMom .. if you were EVER right about ONE thing.. I wish this was it. I want it SO bad.

They are HIRING you to work for them, and that work involves taking care of their child.

:: I do not work for them. I offer a service and they decide if they would like to pay for that service. I decide who I will take. I don't have the situation you have.

I'm not taken advantage of ALL THE TIME! I don't have clients who always want everything for nothing...or who balk at my rates, I don't have clients that balk about my having paid holidays or vacations, or show up when ever they feel like it. I don't have clients that pay me when they feel like it and or balk at the late fee. I am self employed. I run this business and I decide. Their decision is whether or not to partake in my services NOT what services I offer.

If I came to you and said we are vegitarians, DO NOT give my child meat, I would expect you to follow my orders and NOT give my child meat! I don't offer vegetarian meals. I offer a fully organic, local, grass fed meat, chemical free diet. A parent that was a vegetarian would not hire me.

I don't care what is on your list to feed my child, you had better listen to me the parent! :: NOPE I offer what I offer and you decide whether or not to bring your child to my home. I don't do special for you. Take what I offer or hit the road jack.

If I don't want you to give my child cookies, I would expect you to listen and not give cookies NO cookies??????? Oh my this really won't work out. Again. I offer cookies. If you don't want your kid to have cookies than you hit the road jack. My biggest problem is keeping the PARENTS out of my cookies. I've never had a single one that didn't want their kid AND themselves to partake in Nans most excellent home made cookies.

If I don't want you to give my child cookies, I would expect you to listen and not give cookies behind my back just because you think you have the right to DECIDE what MY child should have! If you don't want your kid to have cookies you don't have to worry about whether or not I would give them cookies behind your back. You would just ease on down the road and find someone who didn't serve cookies. See how simple that is?

You can be hired and you be FIRED by famlies! I know. My kids are here an average of three years eight months. Can you imagine? I'm not too worried about getting "fired" by them. There is plenty more where they come from. I get to PICK who I take. I DECIDE who I'm going to take and I DECIDE what I'm going to do with their child while they are in my care. I follow my State's guidelines and I do what "I" think is right. I offer what "I" think is right. If that isn't right for them then they can scoot.

You got the tail waggin the dog there legomom. I'm the boss here.

[DancingQueen]

Nanny just described how my daycare is run (except my cookies aren't that good)

[nannyde]

Nanny just described how my daycare is run (except my cookies aren't that good)

Todays treat:

Blueberry, cherry, Ghirardelli Chocolate Bread.

My little fifteen month old left at noon. Her Dad says "Whatcha got cooking there Nan?" I tell him one of my special breads do you want a slice? "oh yeah sure".

He texts me five minutes later:

Oh wow... can I have the recipe? ::

He's an executive chef

Have to make TWO loaves at a time because the BOSS parents cry like sissy babies if they don't get their "cut".

[broncomom1973]

Right on nannyde!! Very impressive that the executive chef wants your recipe.

[Francine]

Nanny just described how my daycare is run (except my cookies aren't that good)

Yep, me too!

[nannyde]

Right on nannyde!! Very impressive that the executive chef wants your recipe.

Nan's chocolate cherry blueberry bread:

1 cup water
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
1 cup 7 grain flour
1 cup white organic flour
1 cup whole wheat organic flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tablespoons Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate baking cocoa
1 cup blueberries
1 cup shaved tart dried cherries. (sweeten cherries with apple juice if you like it a little sweeter)

1.Measure carefully, placing all ingredients except fruit in bread machine pan in the order listed. Add fruit at the sweet bread signal or 5 to 10 minutes before last kneading cycle ends.
2.Select Sweet cycle. Use Medium crust color. Remove baked bread from pan and cool on wire rack.

[Lucy]

Legomom - please chill. I think you've made your point here ad-nauseam.

[SilverSabre25]

thatgagril, I'm really glad that you and the mom worked things out; it sounds like things will be for the best now. Good for you--I can't imagine that was an easy conversation to have.

nannyde, yeah, what you said! For just about all of it except some of the details. And thanks for the bread recipe...now to try to translate it into a gluten free, not bread machine version!

[marniewon]

Nanny just described how my daycare is run (except my cookies aren't that good)

Exactly the same here too!!!

And, legomom, we've been over this same argument in at least one other thread if not more - I think we can put it to rest now.

[MyAngels]

Nan's chocolate cherry blueberry bread:

1 cup water
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
1 cup 7 grain flour
1 cup white organic flour
1 cup whole wheat organic flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tablespoons Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate baking cocoa
1 cup blueberries
1 cup shaved tart dried cherries. (sweeten cherries with apple juice if you like it a little sweeter)

1.Measure carefully, placing all ingredients except fruit in bread machine pan in the order listed. Add fruit at the sweet bread signal or 5 to 10 minutes before last kneading cycle ends.
2.Select Sweet cycle. Use Medium crust color. Remove baked bread from pan and cool on wire rack.

A little off topic - sorry - but what kind of bread machine do you use (brand)? I've always wanted one and this recipe makes me want to get it finally! Oh, and I second your post about how you run your business - I'm the same way.

[thatgagirl]

I wonder if someone who is a better baker than me can figure out how to do that recipe without a bread machine. I make all our bread by hand and in the oven, but I stick to the same recipe. I have laurels bread book...and i love to read it, but i havent brought myself to make the recipes !

[MommyMuffin]

Thanks for the recipe nan. I need to get a bread machine as well....sooo what kind do ya have nan?

[nannyde]

Thanks for the recipe nan. I need to get a bread machine as well....sooo what kind do ya have nan?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Regal-Kitchen-Pro-Bread-Machine-K6725-/320595591749?pt=Small_Kitchen_Appliances_US&hash=item4aa4fc8245

and

http://cgi.ebay.com/Toastmaster-1-5-Bread-Machine-Kitchen-Appliance-/260649107295?pt=Small_Kitchen_Appliances_US&hash=item3cafe5bf5f

The Regal is WAY better. The Toastmaster was given to me by a guy I bought squash from. It's a cheapo version of the Regal. I highly recommend the Regal.

I make two loaves at once because the time to make bread is getting out the ingredients. It only takes about three or so more minutes to make a second loaf.

I like having two machines.

[legomom922]

OMG..You give cookies but not juice??? Isn't that kinda backwards??

[MarinaVanessa]

Wow really?

OMG..You give cookies but not juice??? Isn't that kinda backwards??

Maybe I'm wrong but I think you've got Nan and thatgagirl mixed up. Nan's the one that makes the cookies and thatgagirl said that not offering juice in her DC is not the same as giving a vegetarian meat or like giving a child a cookie then says that she would never do either in any case. Just saying.

I am NOT a Nanny. The parents are NOT my employer. Sorry.

Me not giving juice is NOT the same as giving a vegetarian meat or a child a cookie..I would never do those things anyway.