How Do Nannies Manage? Gingerly
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Early on in Tasha Blaine’s nonfiction narrative about the lives of three nannies, one of them, called Claudia, tries to determine whether her employer will be working from his home the next day so she can plot the children’s schedule. Ms. Blaine describes Claudia walking “gingerly” over to her employer’s office area, moving some papers on his desk and flipping through his calendar to try to glean some insight.
It is not exactly what parents most fear catching on a nanny-cam, but a sensitive moment nonetheless, one of many that Ms. Blaine, a Barnard graduate who worked briefly as a nanny herself, captures with even-handed compassion in her book, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt next month. Maybe Claudia, who works for a well-to-do family in New York, senses that she is inappropriately crossing a line — except that Ms. Blaine has already shown the myriad ways she is privy to the family’s most intimate secrets. Unspoken, but implied: She can be present for blowout fights, wash their dirty laundry, and help raise their children, but she can’t look at a calendar?More
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Early on in Tasha Blaine’s nonfiction narrative about the lives of three nannies, one of them, called Claudia, tries to determine whether her employer will be working from his home the next day so she can plot the children’s schedule. Ms. Blaine describes Claudia walking “gingerly” over to her employer’s office area, moving some papers on his desk and flipping through his calendar to try to glean some insight.
It is not exactly what parents most fear catching on a nanny-cam, but a sensitive moment nonetheless, one of many that Ms. Blaine, a Barnard graduate who worked briefly as a nanny herself, captures with even-handed compassion in her book, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt next month. Maybe Claudia, who works for a well-to-do family in New York, senses that she is inappropriately crossing a line — except that Ms. Blaine has already shown the myriad ways she is privy to the family’s most intimate secrets. Unspoken, but implied: She can be present for blowout fights, wash their dirty laundry, and help raise their children, but she can’t look at a calendar?More
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