how to deal with nanny at home 20Elizabeth H Bonesteel *horrified* have You obviously know next to nothing about that case and the fact that you "live in the state in which it happened" does not give you...
I think your basic point - that it's worth bringing up any issues as quickly as possible - is an excellent one. It's good practice in ANY relationship, especially one where the care of a child is involved.
As for Louise Woodward - I live in the state in which it happened, so I may have focused on it a bit more than some. I am frankly *horrified* that anybody would take away from that case ANYTHING like "If Mom and Dad had just brought up their issues sooner, their child wouldn't have end." Even if that would have been true in this case, it hardly makes Ms. Woodward look sympathetic - I like to think most people who choose child care as a profession are not quite so close to liquidate.
My sympathy for homesickness, youth, inexperience, and the trials of coping with a baby end the instant violence enters the picture.
FWIW, the "evidence" was Ms. Woodward's buttertion that it must have been the baby's older brother who shook him to rest. There was no physical evidence backing up her statement.
Liz mom to Emily (5-25-04) -- "No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable - and we believe they can do it again." -- John F. Kennedy, 6-10-1963
