Spoiled Kids

So everything is going great with the new nanny. My son in the car last night even said “I loved my nanny” (still working on his tenses).

She takes them shopping and to the park, and pretty much anywhere else they want to go. The only problem with her? She has a hard time saying “no.” She “made the mistake” of taking the kids to McDonald’s her first week, and then the week after, and now every time they pass a McDonald’s the kids want to go and eat. Every time they go anywhere the kids (and it’s mainly my daughter) asks the nanny to buy her something (which ranges from candy to notebooks and pens to toys). She’s taken them to Target a couple times to get some things from the dollar aisles.

Yesterday I came home and the nanny told me that she had bought my daughter and her daughter matching dresses. She said my daughter claimed that she didn’t have any summer dresses. Well of course she doesn’t…it’s not summer yet and we haven’t been shopping yet for warm clothes since it’s been 40 degrees the past 3 days.

I told the nanny that she needs to tell them “no.” Although secretly I do love that she spoils them…I figured if she didn’t care about them or her job she wouldn’t put the energy into taking two little girls into a dressing room to try on dresses.

But seriously, my daughter needs to stop asking for stuff!