Gramblings: Help-Wanted Ad for Nanny: 'My Kids Are a Pain'

Welcome!

I'm Gran'mare and those two fabulous faces above are my grand-daughters.."The Girls"...Beanz & Bou and these pages are all about our days together. You see, I am privileged enough to spend more time than the average G'mom with "The Girls" (2 in '08).

We have a funtabulous time together and hope you enjoy visiting us. Hopefully along the way you'll laugh a little, cry a little and learn a few things from a well seasoned G'mom & mother of 3.

I had hoped to start this shortly after their arrival mostly as a journal for myself but............
I will backtrack (as memory allows) to the beginning when Aunt Tissa & I hovered over Mama Baby and together we heard their heartbeats for the very first time...talk about slap happy!

Monday, September 1

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"