Katharina Buczek
“It’s a nice rhythm, and my mental health has gotten so much better,” she revealed.
While her husband is no longer traveling all the time, however, he is still not even home for dinner or bed most evenings. So, even though he does help her out on the weekends when he is home, she claimed her husband is often reluctant to be firm with their children since he is away so much.
Sometimes, he also arrives home when their nanny is still there helping her. So, he does step in and try to help out the nanny with their nighttime routine.
However, she admitted that her husband allows the kids to rough house and break their routine in those instances– which not only throws the kids off but also makes bedtime much more difficult.
And recently, her nanny was honest about feeling awkward in those situations. Of course, her nanny does not want to undermine her husband– who is “the boss.” Yet at the same time, her husband’s actions are making the nanny’s job increasingly challenging.
Still, her husband is opposed to sending the nanny home once he arrives since he claims there’s no way he could handle the responsibilities on his own.
So, in her mind, there was only one option: her husband needed to defer to the nanny’s lead and follow suit.
“She knows our boys best, and she has to deal with the aftermath when they don’t listen and give her a hard time,” she reasoned.
However, her husband believes that he is the dad and the nanny is just an employee whose salary is paid by him.
Despite that, she still doesn’t think it is fair for him to walk in and interfere with her nanny’s routine at night.
So, she essentially told her husband that he either follows the nanny’s lead when it comes to bathtime and bedtime. Or, he should not help at all.
