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Hot Nanny

Posted in: Podcast, Work Life Balance  |  April 17, 2012 at 10:05 pm
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I used to swear that I would never hire a hot nanny. How could a woman even contemplate such a thing? It’s hard enough having a strange woman come into your home to look after your children, take them out to the park and all the other fun activities they do, watch them reach their milestones whilst you’re at work, if she’s hot as well – well, that would just be a killer. Most of us have seen Sex In The City 2 with Charlotte’s hot, bra-less nanny jumping up and down with the kids – much to the delight of the SITC men.

However, when it came to choosing a nanny and I had a choice between the hot and the not-so-hot, I chose the hot. Why? Well, suddenly when it came to choosing someone to look after my children, whether she was hot or not no longer mattered. All that mattered was that she fitted in with them, got on with them and would truly enjoy and care about them.

A fellow school-mum has also hired an extremely hot Nanny. In fact she came home one day to witness her having a water-fight in the garden with her kids – soaking wet and even hotter – or so the next-door-neighbour seemed to think as she noticed his tongue hanging out of his mouth.

Did she care? Did she heck! To the Nanny it was just fun with the kids – and that’s exactly what my  fellow-mum saw too. Squeals of delight and hilarity that they had managed to get her wet with their water pistols. Genuine fun.

Who cares whether my Nanny is hot?  As long as she is good and kind and caring to them and they are happy with her – that is all that matters.

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Jacqui Lockington is a working mum. Jacqui works full-time for an advertising agency in New Zealand and juggles life at work with being mum to two young children, Jack and Sasha. Jacqui is married to John and has published her first book with co-author, Nat - If Only They'd Told Me. She does public speaking and regularly blogs and records podcasts. Jacqui trained in journalism in London and worked in radio, newspapers, public relations and advertising before moving to New Zealand where she currently lives with her family. You can contact Jacqui at Jacqui@ifonlytheydtoldme.com
  • Jo Baylis

    Coudn’t agree more! When I was looking at possible applicants for aupairs for my children my colleague at work said you are not going to hire her are you? I did and all I can say is I would rather have a hot aupair that is wonderful with my children than an ugly one is not so fantastic. Plus if they are that hot surely they would be setting their heights higher than a middle aged married man for their potential boyfriend? PS: They get the crap jobs too not just the fun stuff!

  • Michelle

    Hmmmm… We had a hot school teacher last year and it was amazing how many dads were happy to drop off the kids and come to parent-teacher interviews! ha ha

    • http://www.mamaslittlehelper.co.nz Cat

      We had a hot chaplain when I was at school and it was amazing how many mums wanted to come to chapel services! I am sure that anyone reading this who was at that school at that time will instantly know who I’m talking about…

  • http://www.ifonlytheytoldme.com Nat

    Hmmmmm I think the big decider for me re the ‘hot nanny’ debate is whether you’re getting a nanny as a ‘live in’ ie au pair or just a day nanny. We had a ‘hot nanny’ well she was training to be a nanny at the time hence me being able to afford her but not sure if I’d go for the hot live in.

    Anyone else???

    • SamB

      What if the hot nanny was male?

      • Jacqui Lockington

        Good point…nannies don’t necessarily have to be female. Has anyone out there hired a Male Nanny?

  • Sue

    I made sure I chose a day nursery where all the ladies working there were either ancient or Ten Tonne Tessies….then I looked like SuperGlamMum to my kids when I picked them up! (not necessarily a totally true story but somewhat connected to the truth, I am ashamed to admit. In the same way that I chose my kids’ school because it had a nice red uniform haha!)

  • Colin

    I was raised by a long series of nannies as I had two working parents growing up. My parents took turns with the interview process and hiring of each live-in nanny. My mother always hired the “hot” nanny…with a brother 10 years younger than me this went on far longer than was needed for me. My father always hired the opposite. The pattern was: 1. large frumpy british woman 2. Hot topless-tanning swedish ski instructor 3. Moustached German Matron 4. Belgian Gymnast/yoga enthusiast etc etc.

    That’s right, I said TOPLESS not bra-less.

    The “hot or not” aspects of the nannies did not seem to affect my parents at all…but definitely had an effect on the neighbours. The presence of the topless swedish nanny produced golf-green quality lawns in the four backyards bordering our pool as those husbands discovered a sudden passion for yardwork…this was unsurprisingly very unpopular with their wives. I’m certain this was communicated to my mother in all kinds of interesting and less than subtle ways.

    My fond memories are largely of the hot nannies…they were more fun. I don’t know if it came from them having additional confidence from being attractive or not…but we had a greater tendancy to be out experiencing new things with hot nannies rather than staying at home.

    That being said, my wife’s cousin WAS a hot nanny…and ended up in a long-term affair with the father of the family. Dumping a hot nanny into a stable environment is probably fine…adding that spicy ingredient to an already unstable household could be a disaster.

    I ended up marrying a swedish woman so it is safe to say one nanny definitely made an impression on me.

  • Chandra

    I think I agree with Nat and Jacqui. I’ve never hired a nanny but I think if I did I would want the best person for the job – the best for my kids and if she was hot I think I would prefer that she wasn’t a live-in nanny. It may also motivate me not to get too comfortable in my frumpy ‘home clothes’!

    What if it was a hot man-nanny?

  • Jacqui Lockington

    Haha Brilliant. I have received one sad story since posting this blog. One lady, who asks not to be named, tells me that her friend hired a Hot Nanny. The Nanny and the father of her child are now living happily ever after. NOT so hot.

  • Mellie

    Our sons Preschool teacher is an attractive bubbly young thing and we also use her to babysit the children. My husband and his friends joke about having a hot teacher; however she is fabulous with the children and the discussion is just men being men. I think as Nat commented having a live in might be diffrent?

  • Jacqui Lockington

    You can now listen to this podcast on hot nanny on itunes. Link coming soon.

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