<p>Actually, we did once have a nanny with a top LAC degree. I didn’t realize it at that time as I never knew the concept of LACs. Now the name is familiar. LOL. The things I learn from CC.</p>
<p>Well now THATS a horse of a different color, xig. Educated au pairs can start teaching the little blokes to read before they can walk. Hire the conservatory grads as aupairs for the targeted musicians, and the Div1 players for the sports-oriented targets. Perfect. The recent grads get experience on their resumes, the little prodigys get lessons and diaper changes.</p>
<p>As for me, Maybe a HPSYM grad to do my laundry? Hmmmm… that could work…</p>
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<p>Amherst…Williams? NAH…Juilliard or Colbert or Curtis.</p>
<p>Does this relate to having kids struggle? Well I suppose if the right nanny were hired, it could prevent struggles in the future. </p>
<p>BUT be careful…you REALLY want to hire a nanny from THE most prestigious schools as otherwise your little ones might want to follow in the nanny’s footsteps and go to (perish the thought) a no name school.</p>
<p>This thread has seriously veered off topic. I thought that was not OK on CC.</p>
<p>Anyway, it is up to me to bring this thread back on topic. Mothers who are hounding their college kids to go to doctor appointments will be in for a rude shock, I think, when the kids rebel. You can’t keep your kids under you thumb for ever. This is America. This is not how we do things here.</p>
<p>Kids under 18 are minors and have to be taken by their parents or authorized representative to the Dr. Thats how we do things here.</p>
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<p>MOST of the posters earlier in this thread agreed that health issues were something they WOULD help their kids with.</p>
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<p>This forum is for discussing college kids. If you have a toddler this is not the right forum to discuss it.</p>
<p>Oh my… so many choices as to how to respond… :D</p>
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<p>Nagging your kids to go for a tooth cleaning is not helping them. Let kids find out for themselves whether they want healthy teeth or not.</p>
<p>If that works for you, go for it. I your kid has awful buck teeth with horrible gaps and an underbite and doesnt want orthodonture, let him follow his “passion”. Great plan. Send pictures.</p>
<p>You miss the point. Your kid has to realize the importance of brushing every day in the morning. You can’t brush his teeth for him when he is in college. That is totally emasculating. I am surprised that he hasn’t rebelled yet. Most normal American kids would. I do hope that he rebels soon. Yay for him for not changing the oil in the car. He just can’t live forever under his mother’s thumb.</p>
<p>LOL!! That would be funny if it wasnt insulting and offensive. Excuse me if I dont take parenting lessons from you.</p>
<p>^^^WE miss the point??? Is this poster for real? Since when did anyone here say they wanted to brush their college kids’ teeth for goodness sakes??! Talk about off topic…</p>
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<p>I was referring to jym’s earlier post about she has been insisting that her college kid goes to visit the dentist while at home. I think that is not a good thing to do. Instead, teach your kids the important of proper dental hygiene (which includes daily brushing). You can’t run their lives for them. JMHO.</p>
<p>I think struggling is highly overrated - right along with “skin in the game” and all the other things parents like to brag about in order to justify their parenting style and laud over others. Lots of different things work. Spoiled kids can turn out fine. Kids who struggle and are nickeled and dimed to death by their parents sometimes smash the parental head in with a baseball bat. As long as they are loved and feel safe, so many other things we do have much less impact than we like to think.</p>
<p>Sooo, back to our beach plans, performersmom and milk and sugar. Which coast are you on? Are you in too, cartera and thumper? We can muse over the implication that we are tiger moms. That would be funny if it weren’t absurd.</p>
<p>I want to go to the beach! And I don’t care which coast it’s on!</p>
<p>I am open to either coast, any island. We have plenty of FF miles!
Warm weather, sun, warm water would be nice. A breeze.</p>
<p>Anticipator here.</p>
<p>I have often used this term to describe myself. I anticipate what can go wrong. In our home, just as we have divided different duties of cooking, setting mouse traps, getting gas in our cars, etc., I have been assigned the task of anticipating what might go wrong. DH once told someone that he really doesn’t have to worry, because I have it covered. </p>
<p>RE: Dentist. Encouraging a college kid to go to the dentist is a far cry from brushing their teeth. </p>
<p>I think scheduling is a skill that improves greatly with age. I think there is a developmental aspect to it. As we get older, we do a much better job of working backwards and scheduling accordingly. </p>
<p>Anyway - as I have said before, now that D is finished college I will try my best to let her make her own mistakes, unless they would have serious health consequences or some other type of serious consequence. Heck, I do that for my husband and my parents!!!</p>
<p>So where are we going fellow Anticpators?</p>
<p>Actually I have a free trip coming due to credit card points, too! Start planning jym (since you are the planner).</p>