First off...this piece was not written to discriminate against anybody....I wrote this to warn parents who have put so much trust in their "yayas" or nannies.
Some of these nannies have become friends, both to me and to my wife, Dinah, since we fetch our kids from school every day, we get to interact with a lot of them, and most of them are very respectful to us and
very
caring of their "alaga" or the child they take care of.....but....some
of them can just be uncaring, rude, cruel and even horrible to the child
they take care of.
Some instances I and my wife have witnessed....
(1) A Nanny berating, yelling and insulting the child, not caring that the child is embarrassed because it is done in front of her friends and her classmates....it is given that some of these kids are quite a handful, but it is still not acceptable to treat them that shabbily or that harshly.
(2) A Nanny pulling a child recklessly or painfully by the hands or by the arms, almost dragging them, and the "alaga" ends up crying, both from the pain and from the embarrassment.
(3) A Nanny texting on her cell while her "alaga" is already several steps in front of her, or worst, behind her....Can you imagine what would happen if the child gets hit by a school bus, or is kidnapped?
(4) A Nanny who, probably, worried that her pants might get dirty, sits on her "alaga's" shoes, when she could have sat on her own sandals. As a result the shoes of her "alaga" becomes flat and deformed. My wife sits on the floor and takes extra care that my Lizzie's shoes are well preserved, so that she may wear it for at least a year. This particular "yaya" chose to preserve her own sandals.
(5) Nannies who feed their "alagas" in the school playground, while they are playing, unmindful of the risk of choking, because they will be running, riding the see-saw and the slides with food inside their mouths....
and also, not caring about the hazards it present to other kids as well....let me explain this....
The floor of the playground is made of rubber, or grass-rubber. I witnessed this particular "yaya" following a child inside the playground and dropping the container of food because she was bumped by another kid....so there was rice and viand with sauce all around the playground floor....The "yaya", for a while tried to get all the rice out, but stopped halfway...so the food particles she left on the ground will stick to the rubber and lead to an ant and cockroach infestation....
There is a big poster on the wall that details the dos and don'ts inside the playground...and one of them is eating inside the playground...
On several occasions, the chinese head teacher would reprimand the "yayas" about this, but they would persist to do it, the minute she leaves.
When did they become this brazen and this rude?
So my advice to all parents....it's okay and really quite convenient to get a "yaya" or a nanny, but don't leave them alone with your kids too often, sometimes instead of learning to love your kid, the opposite happens....and your kids are hurt, physically, mentally and even emotionally.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of the Nannies are heaven sent, the nanny that my sister, Adeline had was very good and caring to her, but then I was always there to watch over my sister as well.....My kids' (Mary Mary Nicole, Niccolo and Lizzie) past nannies have been very patient and kind also.....
but some of the nannies are the opposite of "heaven sent"....
They are just horrible!
Some instances I and my wife have witnessed....
(1) A Nanny berating, yelling and insulting the child, not caring that the child is embarrassed because it is done in front of her friends and her classmates....it is given that some of these kids are quite a handful, but it is still not acceptable to treat them that shabbily or that harshly.
(2) A Nanny pulling a child recklessly or painfully by the hands or by the arms, almost dragging them, and the "alaga" ends up crying, both from the pain and from the embarrassment.
(3) A Nanny texting on her cell while her "alaga" is already several steps in front of her, or worst, behind her....Can you imagine what would happen if the child gets hit by a school bus, or is kidnapped?
(4) A Nanny who, probably, worried that her pants might get dirty, sits on her "alaga's" shoes, when she could have sat on her own sandals. As a result the shoes of her "alaga" becomes flat and deformed. My wife sits on the floor and takes extra care that my Lizzie's shoes are well preserved, so that she may wear it for at least a year. This particular "yaya" chose to preserve her own sandals.
(5) Nannies who feed their "alagas" in the school playground, while they are playing, unmindful of the risk of choking, because they will be running, riding the see-saw and the slides with food inside their mouths....
and also, not caring about the hazards it present to other kids as well....let me explain this....
The floor of the playground is made of rubber, or grass-rubber. I witnessed this particular "yaya" following a child inside the playground and dropping the container of food because she was bumped by another kid....so there was rice and viand with sauce all around the playground floor....The "yaya", for a while tried to get all the rice out, but stopped halfway...so the food particles she left on the ground will stick to the rubber and lead to an ant and cockroach infestation....
There is a big poster on the wall that details the dos and don'ts inside the playground...and one of them is eating inside the playground...
On several occasions, the chinese head teacher would reprimand the "yayas" about this, but they would persist to do it, the minute she leaves.
When did they become this brazen and this rude?
So my advice to all parents....it's okay and really quite convenient to get a "yaya" or a nanny, but don't leave them alone with your kids too often, sometimes instead of learning to love your kid, the opposite happens....and your kids are hurt, physically, mentally and even emotionally.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of the Nannies are heaven sent, the nanny that my sister, Adeline had was very good and caring to her, but then I was always there to watch over my sister as well.....My kids' (Mary Mary Nicole, Niccolo and Lizzie) past nannies have been very patient and kind also.....
but some of the nannies are the opposite of "heaven sent"....
They are just horrible!
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