It'll be great!"' Another is, 'Avoid being left alone with the husband at all costs. Not because he'll hit on you, but because he won't know who you are and may wonder if he married you when he wasn't looking.'
But they take a serious stance on the status of childcarers. There is a stigma around daycare, and 'working women are made to feel ashamed about having to share the mothering responsibilities with a paid employee', the authors say.
'We would like to see more professional resources made available to help parents and caregivers navigate the challenges of working together within the home,' they say. 'We suggest that if the relationship between the mother and the nanny is professionalised - and much is involved in such a vision, including legal regulation - then a nanny can be enabled to love the child, which is really the crucial cornerstone of the job.'
They think there is 'more public dialogue' about childcare in the UK than in the US. Oh, and are there any male nannies over there yet? 'We do know one male nanny in Manhattan, but he is an exception in our experience. An ardent multi-tasker, he lives in with a family, provides yoga lessons to the mother in the morning before she goes to work, minds the children in the afternoon and practises his massage and body work training on the parents in the evening,' they write. Now THAT would make a great movie...
