Leading Article

Sometimes I consider the subjects in Professional Nanny and wonder if it's all getting a bit too touchy-feely. There's such a lot of emotional content - in this issue, for example, we look at a book about a nanny-employer conflict, at coping with divorce, mothering on the job, recalling childhood, and getting stressed out! It's only natural for emotional entanglements to come into any job in the 'caring professions', of course, but in another magazine such intense feelings and relationships would be happening in people's personal lives, not their working day. Yet nannying is such personal work. Being based within...