Good to be here again and thank you to all who have been following and reading my columns. I was going over some articles I had written about two years ago and it shocked me because they are all so relevant now. So, I have decided to share it with you.
They are like men: can’t live with them and can’t live without them. Has it not amazed you how all of a sudden nannies have become essential commodities in our lives? Nowadays, even with housemaids almost every home in the country with kids has nannies.

Even housewives go all out to look for these female that have become substitute mothers. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to talk about such a sensitive issue but with the things that are happening around, it is becoming so alarming that there is a need to look into it.

I have often wondered when this whole nanny craze started and whether our mothers and grandmothers employed these people. It just seemed like the whole thing started when the “Career Woman” mentality began in full force, but later I began to feel that it was as a result of the decline in the economy.
I know that there was a time when the man of the house would go to work and provide for his family and all the woman had to do was stay home and look after the children, but after the economy suffered a decline and the problems of maintaining a standard of living surfaced, men started encouraging their wives to work so they could both make enough and jointly provide for the children.

When this happened, it gave rise to the employment of both young and elderly women who would take care of the children. This is not the case with everyone though.


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