Kimberley M.

Thank you for your review Jinny K. W. I came to the W. household after a preliminary conversation in which they stated an expected pay rate of 15 an hour. I told the family that I have been working for 16, but, realizing that Jinny is physically disabled at the moment from a slipped disc and operation, I agreed to work for them M-F for a weekly rate of six hundred in case she really needed me. The family left me all of their laundry as well as all of their weekend dishes when I arrived on Mondays. The father of the house did not return and had me work a 12 and a half hour shift on a Friday my first week, after I had already spent an overnight, 47 hours and my (additional pay) Saturday with the family, despite me telling the family clearly that I had injured myself (when the mother had me hike up the steep hill with the baby and my and Jinny's things twice) -on a day when I was also expected to cook and clean, in a house with many stairs. Dr. W. was not doing any of his own dishes or cleaning after Mrs. W. or himself or the children at all on his time off. When I did the math, I felt that Dr. and Mrs. W. were taking advantage of the price points we had gone over. I had wound up with 10 dollars an hour, and I have an education in Early Child Development. Furthermore, it is my belief that Mrs. W., A High School Special Ed Teacher, has little or no ECE knowledge, that this was misrepresented to me, and that the woman now wishes to "Save Face." When I first arrived at the Wong household Mrs. W. kept making statements about how she was "the only one" that her baby would respond to. She was very jealous to the point of being mean and when I suggested an NAEYC website article about the organization's official stand against using "Time Outs" which have been shown by behaviorists not to work, she asked me who they were -wouldn't a child development "expert" know who the NAEYC was? Every time Mrs. W. had me drive and we spent 10 minutes or so with hot sun on my face and I would ask her to open a window, Mrs. W. would suggest that I was going through menopause. When I discussed the merits of musical education with Mrs. W. with regard to her 4-year-old boy, suggesting singing songs, she seemed totally disinterested despite that researchers know how important songs are for developing math skills. The few songs that A. did know in English were all on the radio. The Mom is always home.