From the Archives

March 12 I mentioned that my journal was one year old.  I had intended to revisit some of my March 2005 entries during March 2006, but I never got around to it.  So I'm going to go ahead and share one today from last March.  This was dated Monday, March 28, and I thought it was cute. ~~~

 

Any Nanny Lovers Out There?

My nine-year old daughter is addicted to these nanny shows!  I have to admit, they are kind of fun to watch.  For me they're fun because I can watch in fascination and say to myself, "Wow, glad my kids aren't that bad."  My daughter watches in a kind of fascinated horror.  She makes comments like, "That kid is a brat!  I'm glad I don't act like that!"  Occasionally, though, she slides me a side-long look with a little half-smile on her face that says, "oh, oh, I kinda do that, too."  But today she apologised to me for something and after the "I'm sorry, mom," she went on to state exactly what she'd done to be sorry for.  Then she said, "Notice what I did?  I did what the Super Nanny says to do.  I said what I was sorry for."  Way to go Super Nanny!  We saw so many previews of Super Nanny on ABC that we eagerly awaited the first episode.  I thought it was cute, but not necessarily something I would stay up every Monday night til 11:00 to watch.  But my daughter has me tape it every Monday so she can watch it the next day.  Then two weeks ago we accidently stumbled upon Nanny 911 on FOX.  This one comes on on Monday, too, but at 8:00.  So she has a dose of nanny at eight, then gets her next nanny fix the next day sometime before bedtime.  I don't mind.  I have a great respect for nannies.  I don't know how real these shows are.  Some of these families seem pretty way out, but then, wait, I do actually know some families like this.  But the families I know would NEVER let anyone come in to tape them, much less try to FIX them!  It makes for a clean, entertaining hour for my daughter, and, hey, now she states what she's sorry for, so more power to them.