{"id":922,"date":"2013-11-21T19:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2013-11-21T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:03:26","slug":"the-nanny-diary-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/the-nanny-diary-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The nanny diary: Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s day 4 and things are starting to get a bit tougher as we follow a nanny and a mother through the first week in a new job, but who is feeling the strain? If you’re joining us part way through catch up on day 1<\/a>, day 2<\/a> and day 3<\/a> first!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So today was the first tantrums from almost everybody. Eldest didn\u2019t want to go to school because they have swimming and he didn\u2019t want to go, which nearly made us late. I couldn\u2019t find the church hall for toddler group, not that it seemed very appropriate for a 6 month old but MB obviously wants me to keep the routine going at least for the time being. People weren\u2019t terribly friendly either when I tried to introduce myself although I met a lovely childminder who told me about a group that lots of nannies go to so I\u2019ll try and bring that up with MB. I never know how soon to suggest introducing new things. On the one hand I think it shows I\u2019m being proactive but on the other hand I don\u2019t want to feel like I\u2019m criticising the way things are at the moment and I know that wanting to go to this group is totally for me at the moment, even though I\u2019ll hopefully meet nannies with charges a similar age to the older ones as well.<\/p>\n

Charge number three was having so much fun at nursery she wanted to stay and not come home with me. Youngest didn\u2019t want to go down for a nap so I didn\u2019t get everything I wanted to done in the afternoon. I hope the older girl keeps her nap for a good long time or I\u2019ll be really behind on laundry and cooking. 4 charges feels a lot more work than 3!<\/p>\n

Only charge number two didn\u2019t have a full on meltdown but he did get grumpy that we might be late for school and tried to kick his brother. I\u2019m beginning to think I had it easy the first couple of days and now everyone is showing their true colours. I got a bit strict because I want to nip any bad behaviour in the bud so I hope they don\u2019t give me a bad report this evening. It\u2019s really important that some things get done on time and they need to learn that applies to time with me as well. I just didn\u2019t think they\u2019d be testing so soon. It\u2019s also really difficult when you don\u2019t know their personalities well enough to spot when they\u2019re tired or getting annoyed with each other and you can\u2019t step in early enough to prevent ructions. I forgot that part of settling into a job\u2026<\/p>\n

I have achy legs again and my upper back is starting to resent the buggy board. 4 school runs today because the eldest had an afterschool activity at school. I might see if we can find something to do that isn\u2019t go home, take shoes off, have a snack and put shoes on again. There must be a park nearby, or possibly going to the library. When the weather turns bad going back out again in the dark and cold is just going to be awful.<\/p>\n

Didn\u2019t reply to MB\u2019s text because she sent it just as the girls were waking from their nap and it was all go for bottle, school, back, school, back and I genuinely forgot. She didn\u2019t mention it when she got home so I hope she\u2019s not really annoyed and saving it up to fire me with tomorrow. I hope I didn\u2019t come across as too tensed up either, because to be honest today really wasn\u2019t an ideal day and there are a lot of thing I would like to do better.<\/p>\n

Mother:<\/p>\n

Today started with an odd question about the boys clothes. I hadn\u2019t realised they had so much stuff the same size but they do definitely have different clothes. It\u2019s bad enough people thinking they\u2019re twins already without them sharing clothes. I obviously don\u2019t deal with unexpected questions in the morning well but by the time I got home she\u2019d taken the initiative and got the boys to help her.<\/p>\n

A lot busier so I didn\u2019t have the temptation to call as much but I did fire off a quick text before I managed to stop myself and got no reply which worried me a bit. I could see how hectic the afternoon had been when I got back though so I forgave her. It would be a bit of a pot, kettle, black situation because my husband is forever telling me off for not answering my phone or responding to messages or emails. It\u2019s quite reassuring to see that everything is getting done and that means I should be able to focus 100% on work when I\u2019m there and not worry. It\u2019s a big jump to having a nanny not just the stuff you have to do to become an employer but also the emotions that go with it. I never felt that I would be replaced by a nursery or our childminder but having someone do exactly what I do every day is a bit disconcerting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s day 4 and things are starting to get a bit tougher as we follow a nanny and a mother through the first week in a new job, but who is feeling the strain? If you’re joining us part way through catch up on day 1, day 2 and day 3 first!   Nanny: So … Continue reading “The nanny diary: Day 4”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nannies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}