Esmeralda

Holy sh*t. She sounds like a dream. Where do I apply, NOT!

She needs psychotherapy and I am sure all her children will too.

Deborah

All Hail Sloppy Parenting. Perfect parents = perfect children = DULL DULL DULL.

nice blog, btw

Den2

Love it! What a terrific sense of humour!

Steve

I reckon I could put up with her for an air conditioned studio on the Upper East Side. And free internet? Deal.

Melissa

Hilarious. Yet totally serious. Come on, we’re all like that. I’m exactly like that and my kids turned out okay. I’m sure she’ll find a nanny out of that. Although I’d like to see what her kids have to say…..

Lesley

Love her! Beautifully, brutally honest and, I might add, not unlike many of us other moms just trying to do our best every day. I would read anything she wrote, including that possible book-she is fricking HILARIOUS!

ya think

Seriously?! Are you seriously telling me you ADMIRE this lady’s honesty and sense of humor? Is it any wonder why she can’t keep a sitter/nanny for more than a month or two? She wants someone willing to come in and be just as much a screw-up with her kids as she is — to let them be just as much “pains in the ***” as they are now. She doesn’t want her kids to change, she wants someone else to come in and deal with them as is. She can’t handle what she’s let them become and doesn’t want them to become someones she can handle. Kudos to the young woman who took the job. Good luck to her.

Merren

I know this woman irl. Oddly, I don’t find her description of herself or the kids particularly accurate. They are normal, rambunctious, well-loved kids. ADHD runs in the family and they can be a handful for sure. But Rebecca and Mitchell are decent parents, even good parents. Rebecca (don’t call her Becky) spends weekends at the beach house with the kids. Mitchell joins in as work permits. I honestly don’t recognize any of them from Becky’s description.

That said, Becky is an ENTITLED, boring little twit at times, with little social conscience. She takes delight in being wealthy and having privilege and talks about it, not constantly or anything, but it irritates me. I hate that about both of them.

Look at her paintings. She is supposed to be recording the “streets of NYC” yet there is not one person of color in any of her paintings. I find that a travesty, a blatent display of inherent racism. I also find it draw-droppingly astounding.
And what’s up with all her subjects being so thin? A not-so-subtle message to Mitchell? Shame on you, Rebecca. Paint the real world out there and stop editing out the best parts.

The couple aren’t monsters by any means. I have never even found Rebecca controlling, and I have stayed a both locations with them. Maybe from a nanny point of view, she is, I can grant that.

Reading the whole piece, I found it hones in an Erma Brombeck kind of way, although I deplore the spelling (too busy shopping to use spell check?).

Rebecca, if by remote chance you are reading this, you probably know who I am. I love you anyway, sweetie, but I wish you and Mitchell would examine some of your chosen values.