Just as trucking companies put signs on their vehicles asking the public to report unsafe drivers, parents can now put license plates on their baby strollers to get feedback on the behavior of their nannies.
Jill Starishevsky, a mother of two and a New York prosecutor, launched HowsMyNanny.com on Thursday, which sells stroller license plates that have a unique number and include the Web site address so the public can anonymously report good or bad nanny behavior.
The parents, who pay $50 for a plate, receive an e-mail alerting them to the report, which they access on the Web site using a password.
“It’s a tool to empower the parents and to protect the parents and the children, it’s not a tool to work against nannies. It’s just a tool to give parents peace of mind,” said Starishevsky, a lawyer who prosecutes child abuse and sex crimes.
“People keep asking me if this is because I am a mom do I want to do this or is it because I am a prosecutor? My answer is I think it’s both,” Starishevsky said.”
I’ll bet we can think of a few more reasons, as well.
And we could have a tattoo on our left forearm to identify every one of us…
We are in a sad state when parents don’t know their nanny well enough to even think of something like this.
On the freeway, trucks that display “How’s my driving” signs do so to promote good driving ettiqute from the driver toward other drivers on the road. Us other drivers usually don’t give a damned how that driver is treating his cargo, we’re more interested in knowing that he’s not going to drive the rest of us into a wall.
The concept here, if I understand it correctly, is that parents want other people to observe how their nanny treats their children, and email them to let them know if the nanny has been observed being less than loving to the “cargo” in their charge. I predict that this is already doomed to fail for a number of reasons.
1) A bad nanny just won’t be bad while viewable in public – they’ll just wait till they get the kids in private to beat the crap out of them.
2) Society in general doesn’t care what the nanny is doing with someone else’s children.
3) What does it say about you as a parent if you have to put this kind of sign on your stroller? “Hi, I let complete strangers take care of my kids for me” perhaps?
This whole thing saddens me a little. First, because parents are so far away from their children that they need nanny’s that they don’t know, and second because we live in a world where you can’t even trust a nanny…
So, when do they turn out something for abusive PARENTS?
J/P=?
If those bitches (not single moms) that call themselves mothers weren’t too busy concerned about how to pay for their next condo, Mercedes or their careers then maybe they might rely on themselves to look after what they brought into the world. Bitches, that’s what they all are– they put their careers above their children. F*ck them! They get what they deserve.
and 0113 wonders why his putor is slow at work.
I’m sure its bad enough being a nanny imagine having to wear a license plate giving every psycho an opportunity to complain about them
Make a t shirts
“The annoying kids aren’t mine I get paid to babysit them”
“They got their looks from their ugly parents.”
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