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Help-Wanted Ad for Nanny: 'My Kids Are a Pain'
Saturday, August 30, 2008
NEW YORK — It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, 'My kids are a pain.' But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.
'If you cannot multitask, or communicate without being passive aggressive, don't even bother replying,' Rebecca Land Soodak, a mother of four on Manhattan's Upper East Side, wrote Aug. 19 in her advertisement on Craigslist.
'I can be a tad difficult to work for. I'm loud, pushy and while I used to think we paid well, I am no longer sure.'
This being the age of instant communications, the ad took on a life of its own, making the rounds of parenting blogs and e-mail inboxes and inspiring an article in Thursday's New York Times.
Soodak, a 40-year-old painter whose husband owns a wine store, eventually hired Christina Wynn, a 25-year-old University of Virginia graduate, to take care of Rubin, 12; Ellis, 9; and Shay and Cassie, both 6.
'I made a commitment to stay in the job for at least a year,' Wynn told the Times. 'I met the oldest"
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