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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Make an Exit Like Mary Poppins

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

How To, Education

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For years, Stella helped raise twin girls whom she loved deeply. She potty trained them, read bedtime stories and made sure they ate their veggies. But then, one day with little warning, she was asked to leave them. Stella isn't a parent—she's a nanny. And though it's been years, she's still heartbroken over being let go from her old job, especially the way it ended. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Tasha Blaine, author of Becoming a Social Worker and Just Like Family. Tasha spent years interviewing nannies for Just Like Family and she's here to help Stella process her loss. When you're getting paid to raise someone else's kids, how do you navigate that messy work-life divide? And for couples, how can you establish a better, more professional relationship with this "third parent"? Listen in for the secrets of a real-life Mary Poppins.

If you liked this episode, check out our "Cheat Sheet" series on raising children in an unusual year.

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0:00.0

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0:30.4

I have at least over a thousand videos and pictures of the girls and with the family.

0:37.0

Even if I want to look at a different photo, I can't look at it because I don't want to

0:41.8

scroll past all the pictures.

0:44.1

I think it was last week.

0:45.7

I thought, let's try it.

0:48.4

And the whole next day, I just cried.

0:53.1

Welcome to how to. I'm David Epstein. Picture this. Your kids are everything to you. You potty

1:01.1

train them. That wasn't fun, but you got through it. Then you taught them to tie their shoes.

1:05.8

You taught them to say please and to say thank you. You made sure they ate all their veggies,

1:09.9

even though they didn't like them.

1:11.4

You took goofy photos with them at the playground. But then imagine that one day, with no warning,

1:17.2

you have to leave them. That was the worst thing that has happened to me in my adult life. It was just

1:23.6

awful. This is Stella. She's not a mom. She's a nanny. And for three years, she helped raise a pair of

1:31.7

twin girls that she absolutely adored. I loved those girls as if they were my own family, if not more

1:40.5

than my own family. Stella's 23 and from the suburbs of Chicago.

1:46.5

She began taking care of the twins five years ago.

1:49.2

That was her first ever job as a nanny, and she loved it, the work, the children, even the parents,

1:55.0

who will call Rick and Alyssa, though those aren't their real names.

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