Are your children being raised by a nanny?

Question

do you pay someone to look after your children while you are at work if so do you think that your childern are better behaved which would be better daycare or a nanny?

Answer 1

It would be better if you yourself, (mother)to raise up your child so that you and your own child will not have a communication gap and misunderstandings that will happen in the future. You will be able to disclipine your child yourself.

  What if your nanny will resign or go to another place? Who will take care of your child if you don't the way the nanny is raising your child?

  It is really essential to take care of your own child...

Answer 2

Having children at home is good, but it is much better for them to interact with children their age they learn to become independent, their speech inprove and they can carry on conversation very well. when they are at home in they are not on a routine they tend to have problems ajusting when they enter a school setting

Answer 3

if you can afford a nanny, esp if theya re young that would probaby be the best. granted that you find a great child loving, friendly, caring person.

pros: they tend to get sick less than being in a daycare with 15 plus kids all the time.

more one to one attention

can be at home for naps, meals, play w/ their toys, etc

Answer 4

First to your question.  I was a single mom from the start, and for the first 3 years, I stayed with my son full-time.  I was blessed to be able to sell my art at street fairs and hence have my son with me.  Once he was 3 years old, I put him part-time (3 half-days) into a preschool, and at age 5, he started Kindergarten.

Now to part two.  It really depends on the age of the child.  My personal opinion is that until children are about 3 years old, they do better with one-on-one interactions and playtime under individual supervision at the playground.  In the first three years, children learn a lot and grow a lot, and individual attention is very important.  In many childcare settings, the teacher-child ratio is too big to really give all the attention to young children.  

Once they are 3 and over, though, their language skills have developed enough to be able to separate savely from their main caregiver.  Also, by that age, it is important for them to be in a group of peers to learn appropriate social behavior.  So I think up to 3, it would probably be best to have a nanny take care of a child (if neither parent can be the prime caretaker, of course).  From 3 to about 4 or 5, I still think that daycare shouldn't be all-day, and the afternoons should be spent with the primary caretaker.

As to "better behaved" children, I really don't think that is a critera that should be on top of the list.  What you want is a socially responsible child that will question things, not blindly follow instructions.  And children will misbehave quite a bit.  Up to 3, tantrums are normal and to be expected.  And that's another reason why I think the one-on-one approach up to then is better...because it allows the caretaker to deal with each tantrum immediately, with patience, and without pressure to have to deal with other children at the same time.