Nanny Troubles.

Nanny troubles!

Our first week of classes went well. I did not have any schedule changes. I am still shocked at that. Robert however did. Just small adjustments to his schedule were made, but still changes. They have told us that we will keep the schedules that we have for 2 months; we will see how it works out. The only thing that did not go smoothly with the first week of school was the nanny that we hired. We hired a mother and daughter (she is 18 years old) who would either both be at our house or just one of them. They were hired to look after the girls, clean the house, and also make lunch for all of us each day. We the house was staying pretty clean and lunch was made everyday, but the most important part was not getting done. Looking out for the children and making sure they were safe. From the first day that we left Kenya was into things she should not have been. The first day she got a hold of some foot powder and was playing in it and she also got into a bunch of other things that are not safe for children to play with. Other things that happened during the week are: Kenya went outside to play all by herself for who knows how long; Kenya climbed on chairs to reach things on top of the fridge and one thing she found was a razor blade that she proceeded to cut herself with; Kenya was holding Jasmin and Jasmin fell and hit her head hard on the our coffee table and got bruise and bump; there were more thing that happened too. These are all things that I would think a nanny would know not to let happen. It appears that they were just not watching with the girls were doing. It is very common in China to let young children do anything that they want, but we really did not expect for the nanny to let her endanger herself or Jasmin. We expected the nanny to put her foot down when something was dangerous and wrong.

I feel like Kenya may be acting out to try to get me to stay home and for that reason I feel so completely guilty! I also know that Kenya is just doing these things because no one is stopping her. What 3 year old would not want to climb on anything in the house and or do whatever they pleased. Our nannies do not speak English, and so I know Kenya takes advantage of that, but really this is my children’s lives in danger. Just today we got home and found that Kenya had drank 2 different kinds of medicine: Tylenol and Gas Drops. Kenya told the truth and told us that she even gave some Tylenol to Jasmin. We were so furious at Kenya and more so at the nannies. Then later when we were putting the girls to bed and Robert discovered the window in the girls room was open. This window has not lock and no screen. Kenya told us she was playing with it earlier today. Yeah, we live on the 5^thfloor and my heart skipped several beats. So, perhaps it is time for a new nanny. Honestly Robert and I have been counting our blessing and recognizing that the Lord has answered many of our prayers about keeping the girls safe while we were away. All of these situations are scary but nothing has come of them. We are so greatful for our Lord and his watchful care of our girls!!

By the way we got rid of that Nanny the very next day.  We are nannyless and have been trading off watching the girls and teaching.