Nanny 911

Who doesn’t love them some craigslist? Have a pair of concert tickets you wanna sell? Check out craigslist.com. Looking to find that special someone? Craigslist.com is for you. In need of some daycare for your toddler? Please, steer your internet browser clear of craiglist.com. While they have a section devoted to this topic (http://sacramento.craigslist.org/kid/) and I am sure there are plenty of reputable, competent caregivers on there, I’d like to share a litte anecdote with you.

I was sitting at soccer practice a few weeks ago along side many of the other parents who enjoy watching their little ones run around aimlessly occasionally bumping into a soccer ball. I noticed this younger, college aged gal thumbing through a textbook (moving her lips as she read, not a good start). A sister maybe? Perhaps a nanny?

Well, all my questions were answered as soon as she picked up her ringing cell phone. Apparently this young person “totally lucked out” on craigslist.com the day before. She proceeded to (her outside voice at full volume) tell her friend that she got a call from this mom who saw her ad on craigslist the night before and was willing to pay $10 an hour plus mileage to take her two kids to soccer practice twice a week and do some light grocery shopping, etc. “It’s easy money,” she continued “the boy is a handful but the girl is really nice.” You know, since she just met them that afternoon it was tough to remember their names. At water break the older boy comes over looking for his water at which point he was asked, “so where’s your water?” Uh, he’s 5 dear, it should be in your bag…

I could go on and on, but suffice it to say the other parents who overheard this conversation were a bit disturbed. Who hires a daycare provider the day before leaving them with their children? Could she have possibly checked references? I am sure I don’t know the whole story and passing judgement in haste, but I saw what I saw and I heard what I heard.

Oh, and enough with the oversized sunglasses already. Please.

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Author: RonTopofIt

RonTopofIt is a complex personality, as are most of the small breed of modern day renaissance millionaires. He wishes more people were like him and yet believes that it takes all kinds. You've met RonTopofIt many times, you just don't remember him.

5 thoughts on “Nanny 911”

  3. OK, RonTopofIt, I’m with you on the whole finding-a-babysitter-via-the-Internet thing, but no way on the oversized sunglasses. Even if the trend has come and gone, oversized shades can be a girl’s most functional – and notable – accessory.

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  4. I agree with Kate! I won’t go botox, so on certain haggard-looking days it’s Elton John sunglasses or nothing.

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