u/cannedt33th

Hello, so while I was nannying this three year old today. He hadn’t gone potty in a few hours by the time I got there, so before we left the house, we tried again to no avail. He had a small accident while we were at the park, I changed him, and later we went home. I asked him if he needed to go potty and he said no, so I planned on having him try again after lunch. Then he had another accident while I was preparing lunch, and I didn’t realize until after it was time for me to leave (maybe about 30 minutes), that pee had gotten on his sofa cushions in his room. Mom was upset but didn’t say a whole lot, I said that it was my bad and I should have had him go right away when we came back home. I’m debating knocking off one hour’s worth of pay as an apology, since that took at least an hour to clean. What are your thoughts? I know this was a big mistake, I’m still fairly new to full on nannying as opposed to babysitting for an evening.

Hello! I work at a daycare and I met a family through work that I will babysit for occasionally. Their little girl is so sweet and silly but she is terrified of babysitters, and I think she has developed a bit of a negative association with me coming over and with mom and dad leaving. We had one “babysitting” session where mom stayed close by the whole time to try and acclimate her, and while she was nervous at first, about an hour into the visit when mom made herself scarce I was able to engage with her in an activity and she seemed to calm down.

It seems like her anxiety has the most time to grow before her parents leave, and for our babysitting visit tonight, mom wants me to come over an hour before they leave. I already agreed to do this, because I didn’t want to switch up the plan, but I think that a shorter drop off would be much more efficient. I want to hear some other opinions, would this extra buffer time be useful? I’m trying to make do with this situation and I plan on bringing books and maybe some kind of activity to do with her to help with the adjustment. Any suggestions would be lovely!

So this is a general rant about a coworker, and in my experience is generally a downside of working at a place with mostly women (which I prefer usually!). Yesterday during lunch I brought in some vegetarian black bean chili as well as half an avocado and a small ziplock bag of tortilla chips that I like to add to it.

First I added the half an avocado and when she noticed the empty peel she said “Oh! She finished her whole avocado!”, and I mentioned something about adding it to the soup. Then I poured the tortilla chips into the chili and she said “Never enough chips!”, and I was just like “Haha, yeah!”. In the moment I honestly didn’t think anything about it but when I got home later I thought about it and got kind of upset. Admittedly I am on the heavier side and generally enjoy eating, and this coworker has routinely brought in only two taquitos for her lunch with the occasional lunch of just a can of celsius. I actually usually like this coworker so it was disappointing to hear this from her, how can I push back on the comments without making a big deal or coming off as too sensitive?

I’m so stressed, I love theatre but I feel like I chose the wrong major and i’m gonna live in poverty for the rest of my life. I don’t need to do just acting, I can learn to do tech, video editing/production/writing, arts administration. I just want to feel like I didn’t waste my time on a theatre degree