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**geaveheadeNox** · 07-18-2012, 03:18 PM

Am I correct to understand that your housekeeper will take care of your children while you go back to the US for 6 days a month? Are you comfortable with that? Reason being my sister in-law needs to travel for a few days and I will be out of the country. We have a trusted housekeeper that has volunteered to watch the children but my sister in-law refuses to leave her children with anyone other than family. I am just trying to get some opinions on this.

Ummm, so....if I was not comfortable with it, I wouldn't do it. Number one, I judge people by their character, not by their title of family or not. I have some family I would not dare leave my children with, and friends that I would (and have).
My housekeeper/nanny had proven herself time and time again. She has had this arrangement with me before and she did an excellent job for 14 months. At the tone my children were 15, 10, and 6 and they will tell it ALL (which is why we fired 3 ladies before her), I have no doubts about her. BTW, my son's Dominican aunt came from the campo and watched them for me about 3 times and it was a disaster (oh, she's FAMILY)
If today I had to go somewhere for an extended period of time and had a choice of leaving my kids with my mother or with Betania (Nanny), I would fly them to DR. Punto, without hesitation.
It's thoughts like your sister-in-law's why so many children are molested or physically abused because instead of choosing a caretaker by their character, they choose family who could probably care less about their kids but they keep sending them there because they're "family". How many stories of Hispanic children who are left behind by their parent(s) who have to go to the states illegally to make money and are left with family members who abuse them or treat them less than their own kids...Family.
In the almost 4 years that I have known Betania and with the 14 months that she worked for me, she has been nothing but honest, honorable, and hard working. Treating my kids as if they were her own and I can't ask for better than that.
Your comfort level and your family's comfort level is just that, yours. Everyone is different.
So now that I have explained, if you need further information on my comfort level, lifestyle, or anything else NOT pertaining to the WAGES of Trabajadoras Domesticas please feel free to PM me or start your own thread.
Thanks

SHALENA

07-18-2012, 03:18 PM	#26
geaveheadeNox Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 663 Senior Member	Am I correct to understand that your housekeeper will take care of your children while you go back to the US for 6 days a month? Are you comfortable with that? Reason being my sister in-law needs to travel for a few days and I will be out of the country. We have a trusted housekeeper that has volunteered to watch the children but my sister in-law refuses to leave her children with anyone other than family. I am just trying to get some opinions on this. Ummm, so....if I was not comfortable with it, I wouldn't do it. Number one, I judge people by their character, not by their title of family or not. I have some family I would not dare leave my children with, and friends that I would (and have). My housekeeper/nanny had proven herself time and time again. She has had this arrangement with me before and she did an excellent job for 14 months. At the tone my children were 15, 10, and 6 and they will tell it ALL (which is why we fired 3 ladies before her), I have no doubts about her. BTW, my son's Dominican aunt came from the campo and watched them for me about 3 times and it was a disaster (oh, she's FAMILY) If today I had to go somewhere for an extended period of time and had a choice of leaving my kids with my mother or with Betania (Nanny), I would fly them to DR. Punto, without hesitation. It's thoughts like your sister-in-law's why so many children are molested or physically abused because instead of choosing a caretaker by their character, they choose family who could probably care less about their kids but they keep sending them there because they're "family". How many stories of Hispanic children who are left behind by their parent(s) who have to go to the states illegally to make money and are left with family members who abuse them or treat them less than their own kids...Family. In the almost 4 years that I have known Betania and with the 14 months that she worked for me, she has been nothing but honest, honorable, and hard working. Treating my kids as if they were her own and I can't ask for better than that. Your comfort level and your family's comfort level is just that, yours. Everyone is different. So now that I have explained, if you need further information on my comfort level, lifestyle, or anything else NOT pertaining to the WAGES of Trabajadoras Domesticas please feel free to PM me or start your own thread. Thanks SHALENA
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