Many families would have been glad to pay her extra for another week, or another month; some even offered a longer term, but Auntie Mei always declined: she worked as a first-month nanny, whose duties, toward both the mother and the infant, were different from those of a regular nanny.
On a postdoc salary, I cannot afford to pay for a regular sitter or nanny," writes A. Sasha Tait, a cell and molecular biologist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
Sydney is as much a scolding nanny as she is a collaborator.
For instance, define whether Mom and/or Dad will handle dinner, homework and bedtime or if the responsibilities are a regular part of the nanny's role.
KT was a regular Fraulein Maria, working as an illegal nanny in Austria a la The Sound of Music.
(My parents tended to use the museum as a surrogate nanny).
Annabell Callaghan is what's known as a status nanny.
She was a regular as Grandma Yetta on the 1990s sitcom "The Nanny," and in the early 1960s, played Millie Helper, Laura Petrie's gabby pal, on the "Van Dyke" series.
