20 Nanny Stories So Thrilling They Belong in a Movie

Some people assume that being a nanny is a simple, routine job—feeding children, reading bedtime stories, and tucking them in at night. But that’s not always the case. The nannies in this article have shared their extraordinary experiences, proving that this job is anything but boring.

• Family of eight including three-year-old twin boys. Parents did not believe in discipline and thought that the kids would eventually make the right decisions on their own. (They didn’t.) Also, I was hired to take care of the oldest three. Suddenly the other five were there, too. No extra pay. © want_to_write
• I had arrived while the mother and father of the two kids I was babysitting was getting ready. This obnoxious little 7 year old turns to me and says “You’re fat.” The parents started to giggle upstairs and I heard them whispering “Well, at least he’s honest” Unknown Author / Reddit

• I work as a nanny in the family of a big businessman. At first, I worked several times a week, then I started living in their house. The head of the family works almost round the clock, his wife doesn’t notice anything but clothes, spas and fitness.
  Yesterday, their 5-year-old son stole money from his father’s safe, came to me and said we should run away together. I returned the money immediately, but how to explain to a child why I love him more than his own mother, I don’t know... © Overheard / Ideer
• I was working as a nanny, and the children’s mother once told me, “My husband doesn’t think we should pay you for when the girls are sleeping...” They were 4 months and 2 years old.
  I was a junior in high school and responded, “Okay, so should I duck out once I tuck them in?” I wouldn’t have done that, but I think at that point she realized how ridiculous her request was. © reckate / Reddit

• My parents always left me to watch my step-sister. One night when she was about 6-7 I told her that she could watch a movie with me. She went in her room to put her pajamas on, then came out and asked “My mom wants to know if she can watch the movie with us”. Her mom had recently died, so I was creeped out and didn’t know what to say. I ended up saying “Sure, she can watch it with us” and she says “Okay I’ll go tell her!!” and ran back to her room.
  
  I thought then it was probably her way of dealing with the loss, to pretend her mom was still around like an imaginary friend. She’s grown up to be evil and manipulative, so now I think she probably did it on purpose to scare me. polarbearstare
• So, it is that time of the month for me. I go into the bathroom, and while unwrapping a feminine hygiene product, the kid yells from outside the door, “I can hear you eating candy in there!” It made my day, and made me wish that I was really eating candy. © HalleysComet5 / Reddit
• I’m not a nanny, but I’ve been babysitting a girl on and off from when she was 5 to 7 now.
  Her: What is that?
  Me: Pineapple
  Her: Oh, I’ve never had pineapple.
  Me: Do you want to try it?
  She does this about everything, too. I asked her mom if she had ever had pineapple, and she was like of course she has! Then I realized she’s just trying to eat my food. © Kacidillaa / Reddit

• I had put the kids to bed and I was chatting on the phone in the kitchen when suddenly I hear the three year old girl crying hysterically. I dropped the phone and ran into the room and she basically jumped in my arms, clinging to me for dear life. Her two year old brother was laying in bed, wide eyed and silently terrified. When she finally calmed down enough to talk, I asked her what was wrong, and she looked me straight in the eye and said “Evil is scaring me.” Her brother just nodded.
• I was in the living room, watching Sister, Sister, when all of a sudden I hear a man say, “Hello.” I check the front door, look out the window at the driveway, the parents aren’t home. Go upstairs and check the kids, they’re both still in bed.
  Go back downstairs, hear it again, from the darkened dining room, “Hello, I am Armando.” They had a freaking parrot. © Unknown author / Reddit
• I was babysitting my cousin one time and we were playing dress up so she decided to start making my hair, we were sitting in front of the mirror and the entire time she kept looking at something over my shoulder in the reflection, there was nothing there so after about 10 minutes I asked her what she was staring at and she goes “the tall man, he says he wants to play with you” needless to say i did NOT want to play with him ...

• The parents asked that I did not use the word “no” with the kids. It was a situation where the mother was at home while I watched the kids. One time, the 4-year-old was trying to spill his orange juice on the table. I said, “No, Wesley! Don’t do that!”
  I was reprimanded by mom. Instead of saying, “No Wesley, you don’t do that,” she asked me to say, “Wesley, you’re not allowed to pour orange juice on the table it makes a mess for me to clean up.” And I understand the logic of explaining why the “no,” but I actually do not understand for the life of me why the word “no” could not be used.
  Additionally, they would allow bad behavior if the child understood what the consequence of that behavior was. One time, Wesley wanted to pee off the balcony. Going with the policy, I said, “Wesley, if you pee off the balcony, you won’t get any books read to you tonight.” He thought it out, and decided he’d rather pee off the side of the balcony into the yard than have his books.
  And? That was it. I had to deal with going down and cleaning his peepees and he felt he could go without the books. © eukaryotes / Reddit
• A lady tried to dump 2 extra kids on me without paying when she realized I was babysitting her neighbor’s kids. Her rationale was that I was already babysitting 2 kids and 2 more wasn’t that much, so I should watch her kids for free and let them eat her neighbor’s food. © CaptDeliciousPants / Reddit
• So the father of the kid works for a major athletic apparel company, and every year they need to test the upcoming year’s potential pieces. To do that, the company sends one of every potential piece to all female employees and female spouses.
  Well, the mother is pregnant right now and can’t fit into any of the items, so the father made me a cup of tea and asked me to sit down in the living room (what he does whenever he wants to talk to me about something) and says, “I know we’re not paying you to do this, but would you be willing to test all of the sample pieces my company sent me? You can keep them afterwards.”
  Yes! Y’all, no kidding, he just handed me 6 boxes of athletic clothing that has to total thousands of dollars. © pineappleprincesspie / Reddit

• The dad of the kids I watched liked me on Tinder. Then, when I told his wife, and she didn’t believe me, he convinced her that “his Facebook was hacked.” The kids were almost always wonderful. © marymoon77 / Reddit
• I had a phone interview with a mom that went really well, so we met in person for a second interview with her husband and 4 children. It went well until she explained her nanny was fired for having an affair with her husband and how their new nanny needed better morals and to limit her interaction with her husband (who was sitting there the whole time with us).
  I’ve never felt more awkward in my whole life as she told me that I’m pretty but thankfully not his type as he just nodded his head. I just find it irritating how it’s the nanny’s fault when her husband also had the affair, and how the nanny needs morals when her husband clearly doesn’t. So yeah, definitely not accepting this job! © thisisdevon- / Reddit
• The family where I babysit has a tiny poodle/yorkie mix who the mother despises. The dog is very well-behaved, she’s just never been one for animals. The puppy was the dad’s prior to them ever getting together.
  They have these 2 fluffy pillows on their couch, and while the parents are away, the dog likes to sleep on them. It leaves a distinct dent in their otherwise perfect fluff. The mother will scold the puppy, and he just looks so sad and heartbroken.
  So every day I quickly hurry downstairs before the mother gets home, refluff the pillows, and go back upstairs. The puppy has not been scolded in months. That’s my confession. And I don’t regret it. © nannybabywhisperer / Reddit

• At work, I had an affair with my boss, met his 9-year-old daughter from his first marriage, and quickly found a common language with her. The 3 of us went to museums and concerts, like a real loving family. He introduced me to his mother, his daughter and I became friends, we made plans for the future. But all my dreams were buried when on his birthday he introduced me to his friends and his new girlfriend as a nanny to his daughter. © Overheard / Ideer
• I’m a nanny, and I heard her first word (it was hippo). But the family won’t ever know that. Some secrets are better to keep. © positivityfox / Reddit
• I used to nanny for a businesswoman with a massive private library she called her “inner sanctum,” strictly off-limits. Curiosity got the best of me; one day, while she was out, I peeked inside. The room was filled with old books and blueprints. As I glanced through one, I noticed an envelope tucked between the pages. Inside was about $1000 in cash. Intrigued, I checked a few more blueprints and found similar envelopes in each.​ To this day, I wonder if she distrusted banks or had some other reason for hiding money this way.
• From the moment I started nannying, I felt like I had seen my employer before. His voice, his mannerisms—something about him tugged at my memory. One day, while tidying up, I found an old photo of him, younger but unmistakable. Suddenly, it hit me—he had been my neighbor years ago. But back then, he lived with a different wife and kids. It turned out he still did. My memory hadn’t lied. He had two families.

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