on the main page i posted an article on nannies for rich people.
i will cut and paste some of the more "interesting" parts
There are parents who literally have a phobia about cuddling their own children; one mother would scream at me to take the child away if she happened to be in the same room.
Another woman defended her six-year-old son's penchant for painting the bathroom wall with his own excrement, saying he was being "creative".
To their credit, having first tried to convince themselves it was simply because he was creative, they did get help and, after various doctors' consultations, he was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) and prescribed Ritalin.
A normal upbringing may have solved the problem - as would stopping him consuming gallons of artificial blackcurrant juice (diet is so important) - but for his parents it was easier to give him drugs.
And then there was the paranoid father whose house was fully kitted out with CCTV cameras and resembled a Big Brother set rather than a family home.
He would ask me to lock the children - twin four-year-old boys - in a room even if I just wanted to use the loo. You can imagine how much his sons liked that.
The nine-year-old was not an appealing child. She would bite and kick if I wouldn't give her another chocolate bar.
When I informed her mother of my injuries, she looked horrified.
But not because her daughter had drawn blood on my arms, but because, in her eyes, I was "mean" for not giving in to her spoilt daughter's demands.
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