Shocking demands these wealthy parents have for their nanny

Gone are the days where a nanny’s job was to simply look after your children.

Now wealthy parents are after so called ‘super nannies’ that do so much more than school drop offs, lunch prep, or changing nappies.

The super nanny business is booming in New York, and you won’t believe some of the demands these wealthy parents have.

Limor Weinstein owns nanny-consulting business LW Wellness in Manhattan and had one Upper West Side family request a yoga-certified nanny for their children aged four and seven.

“They wanted to make sure everybody in the household was balanced and mindful,” she told the New York Post.

Limor was able to find such a nanny who now travels to the father’s office once a week for a 30-minute yoga session while the kids are in school.

Jeff Goldstein is another rich parent from New York that benefits from a massaging nanny. Twice a week after the kids are in bed Jeff gets a 90-minute massage. His children’s nanny Lairen was actually in school to become a certified massage therapist and she gets tipped for the extra effort.

But a nanny that massages is just the start.

Consultants and staffing agencies have seen everything from nannies that design custom dresses for the children, to those that blow-dry the mum’s hair daily.

A nanny for a CEO with four children, was expected to blow dry her hair daily, and also care for her two girl’s hair as well. She then also drove them to school and prepared three meals a day. The nanny is a former beautician, and also does mum’s manicures and facials, the publication reports.

And while these requests seem straight forward if you have the money to be able to make such demands, there are plenty of strange ones that sometimes can’t be fulfilled.

One client from New Jersey wanted a nanny who could drive an ice resurfacer because the children had their own ice-skating rink – and they found one.

Seth Norman Greenberg is vice president of domestic staffing company in New York called Pavillion Agency and has had one request he couldn’t fill.

“One time, a family lived in a remote area in the Midwest where there were bears,” Seth told the New York Post.

“They wanted a New York-savvy nanny — [but one] who knew how to use a blank gun to scare the bears. I couldn’t get anyone, unfortunately. Not a lot of New York nannies are open to that.”

If you’re wondering how much you’d have to fork out for your own super nanny, they generally can ask for around $14 more an hour than the average $28-an-hour rate, according to Erin Maloney-Winder, the president of household staffing company Abigail Madison in Manhattan.

The US is not the only place where nannies are required to go above and beyond it seems. Earlier this year an ad for a $100k nanny in the UK with Victorian values went viral.

In the ad, which was posted to childcare.co.uk, the mum revealed they had parted ways with their last nanny because of ‘conflicting beliefs’ and now need someone who can ‘get on board’ with how they want their son to be raised.

She wanted her son raised with Victorian values because the ‘style of parenting helped create well-rounded, respectable and polite young people who went on in later life to become great and successful adults’.

Her demands for her son included that he was only allowed to play for one hour per-day and he must always remain in his ‘best dress’, no matter what kind of activity the nanny has planned for him. She doesn’t want her son to have access to video games, computers, television or any other kind of ‘recreational technology’.

Perhaps people feel nannies in the UK have a lot to live up to, given they have their own group of super nannies setting the standards quite high.

Just like Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo – nanny for the royal family, currently caring for the future king of England, Prince George, and his siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

Maria started working for the Cambridges in 2014 when George was eight months old, made her first public appearance when the family embarked on a tour of Australia and New Zealand.

She is fluent in six languages and reportedly speaks to George, Charlotte and possibly even Louis in French and Spanish. Her other tasks involve helping Kate and William deal with tantrums and discipline and looking after the royal brood at events.

In addition to classes in cooking, sewing and general childcare, Borrallo has taken modules in online safety, security training, self-defense and even skid-pan training.

Maria is one of a host of British super nannies that could be raking in as much as $180,000 a year, as well as other bonuses such as private quarters, car allowances, cash bonuses, gym memberships and health insurance.

It’s not easy to become a super nanny. You can expect to work up to 84 hours a week and to be on call 24/7, according to The Express.

And the odd requests just keep coming – some have been asked if they possess ski instructor qualifications, if they could feed the pet donkey, could cook vegan, or be fluent in various languages.

Add to that actually looking after young children and it definitely sounds like a super tough gig.

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