The top reasons why Irish nannies in the United States quit

I strongly fee that it doesn't reflect the feelings of every Irish person that I know in Boston. Yes, there are a lot that get homesick (mostly women from my point of view). There was no way that I was going back. I would never made have made half the money or had the same standard of living. My Children are all college educated and have good jobs. They love to go over to the old sod but they don't want to live there. If you don't believe me. I invite you to come over and see and judge for yourself.

An excellent article.

If this were a story about Polish/Nigerian etc nannies in Ireland, bigots like George WOunded Knee would be complaining about 'importing' foreigners at the expense of the 'natives'. Why arent you on here complaining about Irish taking the jobs from Yanks George?

My pregnant great-great-grandmother, after having been abandoned by her husband (the cad!) secured a position as a nanny in NYC. The family grew to love her so much that they eventually offered to pay her passage back to Ireland, but she wouldn't go...she said her wealthy family back home would not accept her because she ran away with an actor (the aforementioned cad). How times have changed!

I've got friends who did the nanny job and everyone one of them left because they were being treated like a house maid who is supposed to basically do everything - in all cases they were not the nanny just to the kids but the expectation was they were the family nanny but not getting paid for it! Parents, not just American think they want someone else to mind their kids but yet they want that someone else to be treated like the oldest kid and tell them what to do - can't have it both ways - if parents feel guilty about hiring a nanny, then mind your own kids!!!

Why is it the important job of child raising gets so little respect?

not enough craic

I though American Woman only treated their husbands like that.