I Saw Your Nanny!

I was just going to write a post on Douglass Park, but in googling for a link to its web­site I came across another site of inter­est. I Saw Your Nanny is a site where you can anony­mously post accounts about nan­nies pro­vid­ing care you find to be ques­tion­able. As both a par­ent (who has used sev­eral dif­fer­ent types of child­care for my own chil­dren) and a child­care provider, I am not sure how I feel about this site. On the one hand it leaves an impres­sion of some kind of spy or anony­mous big brother look­ing over your shoul­der, but on the other hand, if some­one who is sup­posed to be watch­ing, engag­ing, and nur­tur­ing my chil­dren is not doing any of those things — or worse — I would cer­tainly like to know. Even so, the site’s con­tent is entirely hearsay which leaves plenty of room for rumors, mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, mis­un­der­stand­ing, and even defamation.

Ideally we could all find child­care providers with whom we could estab­lish trust­ing rela­tion­ships and who would pro­vide stel­lar care for our kids 100% of the time. Until that hap­pens — and if you believe that the ends jus­tify the means — I Saw Your Nanny is there for you. (Also, if you enjoy inter­net drama, be sure to peruse some comments.)

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