ok this girl is 18 and a nanny. usually nannies are live in and need references and have experience. so you would have to be a little older to become a nanny. i know that you have to start somewhere to gain experience,but honestly who lets an 18 year old take care of that many kids full time with no references or experience. this is ridiculously unrealistic.
Well some people will be nice enough to give people chances at doing somrthing they havent done before.... i mean they also have a butler workin there that can keep the parents updated about stuff happening in the house. BUT you have to start out somewhere
shareI guess this could be said for the premise of most shows on the dedicated kid's channels (Nick and Disney). In fact, many popular Network and Cable sitcoms (Scrubs, Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men) ask the viewer to suspend reality to buy in to the premise. Many European teens come to the US after high school (18-19) to work in hospitality or as an au pair. Yes they go to an au pair school for a few weeks of training and then job referrals and administrative support. Perhaps they are more responsible at an earlier age as anyone who has lived overseas has observed. The foreign exchange student from Germany that lived with us when she was 16 years old later became an au pair in New York at 19 years old. I guess non of that matters to the target demographic (6-11 and 9-14). Nick's flagship show Icarly has no parents at all. In fact, where are Sponge Bob's folks? Although some may not buy into the premise on Jessie, at least this show explained how it came about. They family's security team checked her out and the mom explained that she has made her living "reading people' and making decisions using her "instinct", then stared into her eyes intently and then took the plunge.
shareWhats the difference between a 13-year-old babysitting some kids for a few hours per day and am 18-year-old nannying them? Both have to cook, change, clean and keep the kids alive, know their allergies, emergency numbers and such, so whats the difference? Most parents dont have a lot of prior experience or education in child-care themselves, so what difference does it make?
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Nickelodeon and Disney shows really need major overhauling. Its kind of odd that for alot of those shows, they seem to operate in a world where kids know better than adults(or the adults are altogether nonexsistant) and it sends the wrong message. On the "Jessie" show in particular, the premise would be easier to take if Debby/Jessie didnt look like one of the kids herself, and does her character have any aspirations other than being a music star(like almost every lead in Nickelodeon/Disney shows)? Does she go to college?
"You win some, you lose some. But you live, you live to fight another day."
Well Disney and Nick shows are for youth, so they star youth and the adults are clearly token actors/characters. I dont think theyll change because the shows are about and for kids.
I agree that they have bad messages sometimes (including a surprisingly high rate of disregard for animals on Disney). Overall, the characters arent too bad, though some are not great role models (Alex Russo on Wizards holds the record of being simply the worst).
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There used to be shows geared at the same demographic with a whole family unit that didnt make total buffoons of the adults. I just dont buy into the whole "kids know everything and adults are dumbfounded" message that Nickelodeon and Disney present in their shows. Its fine to focus on the youth demographic but at the same time, kids without authority or proper parental/responsible adult guidence still sends the wrong message. Somehow to them its okay to speak to adults any kind of way they want to, somehow these kids live and exsist in these lush homes where the parents are absent or constantly on 'vacation', none of them seem to have any real jobs or earn their expensive and fashionable name-brand wardrobe. Suspension of belief only oges so far. Kids deserve better.
"You win some, you lose some. But you live, you live to fight another day."
Unfortunately these shows just further raise kids expectations and warp their idea of the real world. Most kids these days have unrealistic aspirations of becoming television, movie, and rock stars. Even with the Internet making everyone and their dog able to become a star (vis Beiber), its just not going to happen for most of them. Aside from the actual content of the shows, it certainly doesnt help that all of the actors release albums while conversely, all of the famous singers do guest spots or movies as though being good at one form of entertainment necessarily makes you good at all forms (and some are not even good at the one).
It will certainly be interesting to see what (western) society will be like in a generation (though I dont hold out much hope for it, what with the 1111+3r@+3 5ibR5p33k, morbid obesity and whatnot).
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Um, again I say, folks need to request something better from these shows. The kids deserve better. This is a method of brainwashing and obviously no one is getting the right message across since its all about money and the exploitation of these young performers.
"You win some, you lose some. But you live, you live to fight another day."