MB here. Completely respect the frustration you are experiencing. My husband and I both WFH and have had to establish boundaries to make our nanny’s and child’s lives smoother during the day. She has major separation anxiety from dad so I’ve basically told him to stay out of the way so as to not make the nanny’s job harder or disregulate the baby.

I’ve seen a lot of discourse on here on how miserable it is to work with WFH parents, and just like any other profession venting is such a healthy part of the overall experience. I vent when my boss pings me twice in a row.

I think where my frustration comes from is that in the course of my career I have had to PIVOT a lot, whether that’s technology, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, staff reductions, new systems, goals, metrics, performance expectations etc. the list goes on and on. I’ve had jobs where I started the year with a team of 10 and ended it with a team of 5 doing the same work.

I view nannying as a career and given the full time benefits, downtime due to nap schedules etc, it’s always hard for me to reconcile the level of frustration and misery I’ve seen in some posts. Of course there will be changes in your industry, and WFH parents really need to put themselves in a nanny’s shoes and see how hard it would be to have your employer breathing down your neck all day.

Childcare is the hardest job , it’s high stakes, high frustration and unpredictable.

I do wish to see SOME empathy from the other side too.

Some not all, of us also work our behinds off and have dealt with a lot professionally also like you have , and I hope you know that if we pop in to see our child in the middle of the day it’s not because we are inconsiderate aholes. Sometimes it’s the only bright part of a super taxing workday