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The Nanny Diaries

The Nanny Diaries

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Gratitude Journal
Review: As a professional nanny I can confidently say that the main character in the novel, Nan, should not have wasted time complaining about her employers. Instead she should have found another job.

Nan works as a nanny to make some extra cash for the summer. The book exaggerates a dysfunctional family with parents who have no appreciation for their nanny and the care she provides for their child.

The authors blame the parents for the nanny's bad experience. The main character, puts much effort into placing the explanation point in the right place in her classified ad. Had she used a nanny agency, she might have actually worked for a family that valued her work with their child.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of in-home child care providers who choose to work full-time as professional nannies for families that appreciate and validate them as the most important person they will ever hire.

This novel shows how uninvolved and egocentric many of the "upper crust" are in the raising of their own children. Some parents have no appreciation for any domestic work. Instead of filling the nanny diary with negativity Nan should have kept a "gratitude journal"! All jobs have bad days. Nan should find a better job and remember the joys of caring for children rather then another "nanny diary" filled with negativity.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very Funny!!
Review: This book was an easy read and very funny. I laughed at Nan's encounters with H.H. and I found her grandmother to be the kind of person you would always want around to help you put things into perspective. However, on a serious note, I could not believe how little time the parents spent with their children. It seemed they only did this when it was convenient for them. I wonder how true to life this really is.And I really loved the ending.
VERY GOOD BOOK!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Little boy lost
Review: I agree with the reviewer who found this book utterly sad. The novel was funny at times but the ending left me completely heartbroken. Although his character wasn't fully developed, I really felt very sorry for Grayer, who was knocking himself out to get his parent's love and never seemed to succeed.

If this is truly how the rich treat their children, then we are in a sad state of being in America...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best "light" read ever
Review: I enjoyed every second of this book. I actually took my time reading it because I didn't want it to end. A must for a great, therapeutic dose of humor!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great book
Review: this is a great book i was a nanny in CT and this book was what really happens when your a nanny it was good to see that someone actually wrote about it

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: very sad story
Review: How anyone can describe this as funny is beyond me. It is a sad story of a small child that is totally ignored by his parents. The only people in his life who ever show him any love are his succession of nannies. And his parents seem to take the nannies away as soon as they question the parents. Very, very sad.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: the nanny in this book is a big loser with no self esteem
Review: I was apalled at what the nanny would put up with more than what the actual parents deigned to do or not do (as the case may be). She needed to get some balls and assert herself.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: If your 21 years old and hopelessly self-centered...
Review: Wow, how is it that this book made the best seller list? I'm glad I got a discount on the purchase, otherwise I would be mad that I paid full price. If the person reading is 21 and still in a sorority, she might enjoy this snotty book. But if you are like me, educated, intelligent and hard working, your going to have a tough time relating to the book. It is full of lines like "wow, those are Prada shoes" and "oh my god, that guy is so hot." Wow, baseless and superficial. I don't feel for the characters, nor do I identify with them. I suppose others do, since it is on the best seller list.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Disappointing
Review: At best, this books reads like the novelization of a TV show. Of course, you might want to wait until this book is actually made into a TV show since that's the next step for "The Nanny Diaries."

This book is terribly written and not much better than something out of a high school creative writing class.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It like a train wreck
Review: The Nanny Diaries is a book that can't be put down. It's like a train wreck, or a huge, bloody highway accident. You can't turn away, in spite of the fact that watching (or reading) is not utimately valuble or enriching in any way.
The Nanny Diaries is an exaggerated depiction of the way rich children live in our society. I imagine that the hyperbole is not very extreme.
The nanny is, sad to say, not much better off than the rich children. She is searching for love at any cost, especially if love involves someone as rich as the lost children. Because of this, the nanny is not capable of carring for the child, or herself.
It would be nice of the affluent people targeted in this novel read it. Maybe they would take care of their own children as a result.


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