A contributor to the “I Saw Your Nanny” blog reports having witnessed a disturbing scene at Guy Mason this morning: a nanny responsible for a little girl allowed the child to wander into harm’s way near the swing set and then treated her carelessly on the swings. “She just dropped your daughter into the swing without properly getting her legs through the holes of the swing, which looked unsafe,” the contributor writes in an open letter to the child’s parents. “When she took her out of the swing, she did it so roughly that your daughter’s leg got smacked on the hard rim of the swing, and the nanny did not apologize.”
The nanny in question has black hair and speaks Spanish. The child is a 2- or 3-year-old girl with white-blond hair that’s usually worn in a ponytail with bangs clipped to the side. She favors pink dresses “that look like they came straight out of ‘The Magic Wardrobe’ shop window,” according to the contributor, and her stroller is a tan-seated Stokke Xplory model.
I really don’t think this is the sort of thing you should be posting. It is pure, vituperative conjecture, made anonymously. It reinforces ethnic stereotypes and is not specific enough to actually identify anyone while casting aspersions on many who are unable to defend themselves. Even the alleged actions are highly subjective–that is “looked unsafe” or that the kid’s leg got hit hard. Most importantly–if there was really something dangerous going on, the original poster should have alerted authorities to protect the child’s safety instead of griping online and feeling self righteous. In short, I think this is nasty stuff.
Tom’s comment is PC, way out of proportion and righteous. There is a middle ground.