b"and what I had picked up from her is how to be reviewed and overhauled. Thrive to warmleadsthatarecominginfromthecautious she was. She basically had COVID Five is an organization that has bipartisan nanny agency partners has really ticked up.anxiety, which is very real. She did a job support.It'saboutearlylearningand So, I'm going to be really surprised if somewheretheparentshadn'tbeenradically ensuringrightfrompregnancythatthose ofthesenannyagenciesaren'treallytransparentwithher,andshefoundthat firstfiveyearsarereally,reallygoingto starting to see the uptick, too. I mean, theyboth the children had runny noses. She left help children thrive. hadahorrible,horribletime,buttheythe house and had a COVID test, and there shouldreallybestartingtomakesomewas nothing wrong with her or the family. I have been saying for years that Australia moneyagain.AlotofithastodowithAnd the father was cross, saying, Listen, used forced and cheap labor. We had free parents working from home and kids not inmy wife's recovering from an operation. I convictlaborworkingasnannies,then school.Theaffluentfamiliesmightmoandidn't lie. The kids have got simple colds. assistedemigrantsclearedoutofthe aboutit,buttheycanaffordtoreplaceScottishHighlandsandtheIrishfamine, theirotherchildcaresolution,whichwasKathy Webband then we had indigenous children taken schoolsandbefore-and-aftercarewithaRight. forcibly from their parents and educated in nanny.Theyneedsomeonetosupervisedomesticlaborworkingasnannies.So, them, the kids sitting in front of the screensLouise Dunhamwe've probably only had about 50 years of forhoursadaytryingtogettheirWe did see a Facebook campaign that the paying nannies properly. education.childcareindustryjumpedonreallyfast.Manyactorswereoutofworkand Kathy Webb Louise Dunham Facebook page was set up so that these Right, I remember my grandmother talking Wehavebeenofferingtutorsandvirtualactorsandactressescouldbabysitfor about every summer when school was out, nannies and we had a call, We need 200doctorsandnurses,andthechildcare andtheirboardinghousewasfull.She nannies to tutor so the parents can work.industry jumped down hard on that. would have guests in the house as well as Now, hold on a bit, the parents are going to Kathy Webbher family that she was taking care of and havetobeinthesameroomastheThat's been a thing in New York for years cooking for and what have you, and they children if they are under five. and years and years and years.always had an Irish girl. That's how theyreferred to her, as they always had the Irish Kathy Webb Louise Dunhamgirl. WehavesimilartoyourunemploymentOurchildcareindustrywasverykeento benefit and it has a bonus in it through theprotest and say, Sure you need help, but Louise Dunham endofJuly.Therehasn'tbeenanytalkyouneedsomebodywithfirstaidanda My mother was one of a family of seven in about extending it because the unintendedpolice clearance. And if there any actors NewZealandandtheyalwayshad consequence of that is that many peopleandactressesouttherewiththose,and someonecalledBiddie.AndIremember areearningmorenotworkingthantheyexperienceandqualifications,comeand once asking about Biddie, and it was more were when they were working.workforus.Wehadafewstrange than one Biddie, always Irish.inquiries kind of along the au pair line. A Louise Dunham doctor rang and said, We need somebody Kathy WebbAnd one of my nannies, who is a student,to live in. We only need her to work eight Well,inmymemory,Ineverheardofa said to me, I have never made so muchhours a week, but we'll give her free food name of any one of these women. It was money. I said, For heavens sake, save it.and board, but she can't work for anybody probably a different woman every summer Thisisbeingcutdownattheendofelseandshecan'tgooutonweekends because they were in the mountains and it September.because we need her to stay safe with us wasaplacewherepeoplefromthecityandideallyshewillhaveateaching would come and get away from the heat Kathy Webb qualification,too.Whohaveyougot and get some fresh air and exercise. But it I think that many of the nanny agencies areavailable?was always the Irish girl. The Irish girl would strugglingtoattractbackqualifiedtakecareofthechildrensomy candidatesbecausemanyarebeingKathy Webbgrandmother could take care of the guests. handsomely compensated to stay home. IYouhavetopayherforall40hoursor thinkthathasturnedacorner,though.whatever the whole time is it Louise DunhamWe're on the back end when we get theHow's your business?referrals.NannieswithchildrenathomeLouise Dunhamthemselveswillstruggle.They'resaying,I think post-COVID people are a having a Kathy WebbWhat am I going to do with my eight andradical education about the real costs of Surprisinglyit'sdoingokay.Wehada 10-year-old? Leave them in my apartmentchildcare. predictabledownturn.Peopleletnannies all day by themselves?go,andofcourse,theydidn'tneedtheKathy Webbservice anymore. But in the last few months, Louise Dunham Right. Ithinkwe'vedefinitelyturnedthecorner We have evidence of someone wanting toand we are back on track in terms of how putinonlysixhoursforusbecausesheLouise Dunhammany people we're attracting every week wants to take a 40-hour cash-in-hand jobInAustralia,therehasbeenalotoftalk tosignupandgetstarted.Andthat this is the time for our childcare systeminterestingly enough, the inquiries and the 12WINTER 2020|NannyMag.com"