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Shanny -nanny/mom question
K&H
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How do you handle jealousy of your nanny kiddos? E is currently in a phase where everything they have is amazing and everything she has is terrible. She and H dropped them off at the airport yesterday for them to spend four days in Miami and E proceeded to cry for the 45 min drive home about how they get everything and she gets nothing and it's not fair that they got to go on a trip and she doesn't. Or they get to watch a lot of tv and she doesn't, or they get Anna and Elsa dolls and she doesn't.. Or they have cats and she only has a dog. On and on and on.
We think her life is pretty swell. And I think deep down she does too, I hope. But this jealousy thing is not going away and it's getting old!
Do you find this with K? How do you handle it?
We think her life is pretty swell. And I think deep down she does too, I hope. But this jealousy thing is not going away and it's getting old!
Do you find this with K? How do you handle it?
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Also, it's OK for her to be a little jealous. I'm jealous they are going to Hawaii in March. But my boss also reminded me they were jealous when we went 5 years ago. It just isn't where they were at at the time nor is it something I can do right now. We will be going to see family.
Having said all of that, I do try and plan stuff when they are gone. We do love to travel and look forward to it so it is nice and just makes sense to travel When they are gone as well.
When the green monster does pop up you can remind her of really special stuff she has been able to do. Didn't you go to Spain when she was a baby? Talk about that trip and how special it was and how you can't wait to go back again someday (or elsewhere, you get the point).
both something and they could have easily done the same especially given R would be there 8-9 hours a day. In the end we talk about how everyone is different, everyone makes different choices and how we have things that are special to us that others don't have. Sometimes it did break my heart. Especially with how this specific family treated us . . I think a few years ago we emailed about it. In the end it was a bit of a phase and we just talked through it and differences. I loved it last time the little boy kept asking Riley why he doesn't have a Dad and Riley kept saying with out any hesitation "I don't know . . Why don't you have a sister? Every family is different." In the end it can be good for them but it's definitely hard as a parent to hear when you see your child upset for things like that.