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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
...but do what you have to do to make sure this woman isn't alone with children anymore.
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Interesting remark. Because at some point, I'm going to have to address this issue and balance the interest of "doing the right thing" with "doing the right thing for the safety of me and my child." You say "do what you have to do to make sure" the Nanny isn't with children anymore. I *could* do a lot of things, including:
(1) hand over the footage to the police department in my small town WHERE HER HUSBAND IS A COP!!!! (how weird is that?)
(2) telephone the reference the Nanny provides (I spoke to this reference before hiring her) and tell her what happened to me in the hopes she will either tell parents who call that she can't give a reference anymore or she can't give a *good* reference anymore. Or perhaps the lady calls the Nanny and says, "Please don't use me as a reference anymore." This all presumes the lady doesn't tell me "I don't know you from Adam; she took care of my kid great, so I'm going to keep giving her a good reference."
(3) look at the local classified ads of parents seeking Nannies and when I see one she may respond to, call them myself and warn them about "you-know-who" if she should answer the ad.
(4) call the local Division of whatever services that handles childcare stuff, but I don't know if they'd have jurisdiction over a private nanny; don't know if you can report your Nanny to them. You can report a parent, but don't know if you can report a Nanny. Anyhow, that place has their hands full already.
(5) tell the Nanny that if she ever applies for a Nanny position again, I will go to the police with the footage. In this way, she is dissuaded not to answer any ads.
Or, I could simply turn over the footage to my town's Police Department (where her husband is a cop and I hear he is a hot head on temporary suspension right now). Any of the above would put Vietbabe and I at risk of retaliation from one or more crazy people. Oh.....and I didn't mention that in the tape of the hellish day, before Vietbabe woke up from her nap, and right after the video shows me leaving the house for the day, the camera shows the Nanny kneeling down and stuffing her face deep into the cushion-seat of an upholstered armchair which she knows the cat always pees on (right on the seat where she stuffed her face) and starts chanting loudly into the cushion all kinds of deranged stuff which I guess are meant to be a prayer but it sounds like she is talking in tongues and only occasionally removing her head from the seat-cushion to shout up in the air "JESUS MY BROTHER!!!!!".
Yep. I kid you not. In a way, it's almost comical to watch it. UNTIL YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN THAT THE BABY MONITOR IS STARTING TO MAKE NOISES AND REALIZE YOUR CHILD IS WAKING UP FROM HER NAP AND WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF CRAZY PENTACOSTAL CAT-PEE SNIFFING LADY AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT BECAUSE IT HAPPENED ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
I'm rethinking the whole daycare center thing. There are structured activities there, and lots of workers and other kids. I'm coming to think that the Nanny environment is too conducive to abuse and neglect. There's:
(1) a TV to watch what some consider very exciting shows, a telephone to use, books and mags to read, a full refrigerator and the ability to eat any time of the workday, etc..
and on the other side of the equation there is....
(2) a very uninteresting and repetitive 16 month old who doesn't talk, who you don't love, and who wants to pour fake tea over and over and over and over again.
Which of the two do you think they will pick? Especially when they know that nobody will likely know which one they picked. For those who think most Nanny's combine the two above, are you satisfied with the relative amount of attend paid to (2)?
