It is so funny that so called professional nannies say that they need to make a certain amount, but give little or no extra care based upon extra money... it only makes a parent go bankrupt a lot quicker.
To be honest, it doesn't take a lot of brains to be a good caregiver, and despite your obvious anger over "illegal Mexicans", they are perfectly able to handle feeding, changing, and generally caring for a baby. Many Latinas come from a culture with a lot of children around, and have struggled under horrendous conditions to get here, often walking for days through heat and taking great risks to get their children a better life.
So it is also funny when I get someone who doesn't understand that most "professionals" are paid salaries. There is a time that all of us come to realize that we are paid a certain amount per week or per month, period. So to say that you are professionals but then refuse to accept a salary as such, rings hollow. Who in the entire actual working world only works 7 or 8 hour days???? At the very least, with a job in this area that is really really generous (not many of them around), one would work a "strict" 8 hour day (something that hasn't existed in real terms since the 1950's America), but still have to leave to go to work and come home, adding at the least 1/2 hour each way... so that is STILL 9 hours in a day that are needed.
I get responses that say that on top of live-in expenses, everything paid for them, they don't want to do much housework and want $12 to $14 per hour for LIVE IN ... and $10 per hour for each hour after that... calculate a 50 hour work week, that is $600 to $700 per WEEK for a live-in, before any "overtime" is accrued??? So someone thinks that on TOP of living in a nice area, getting groceries, cell phone, gym membership, transportation, utilities, etc. paid for, they get to clear 2800 per month free and clear???? Do ANY of us as parents get to clear this much money???? After all of our bills are paid??? No way!
So this is why we all need to be more realistic. Paying a certain amount for a well qualified, intelligent person with an excellent sense of a work ethic is one thing, for someone to LIVE OUT.... but paying this amount to someone who wants to do the basics of childcare, even with "rolling around on the floor" and "actively interacting with the children"... is another thing.
I would pay that much for Jo on Supernanny, but not to any of the ones I have interviewed thus far. They expect way too much money for way too little effort.
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