Being A Nanny
Chelsea Johnson
03-15-15
COM312
Being a Nanny Children are full of tricks when it comes to negotiating wether it be with candy, what they want to wear, where they want to go for the day, or how they think they should be punished. A nanny is job in which one cares for children in the comfort of their own home. That being said there are several situations where the nanny needs to quickly think about how to resolve a situation and usually this ends in compromising with the child to make sure that both the rules are being followed but also so that the child thinks they have some sort of control of the situation. Another aspect of this job is communicating with the parents and trying to negotiate what is the best solutions for the many occurrences that will take place through the duration of this job. A clever way children have come up to negotiate what they want is to bargain with time. This is a lot like the distributive bargaining situation (Lewicki, Barry, and Saunders, 36). Which when the children are at the park and the mother says ok we are leaving in two minutes the children come back and say, “no five minutes” and then the mother either taking that offer or saying no and letting the children know that they will still only have two minutes until it is time to leave. The optimal goal for the children is to stay at the park as long as they can without over stepping their boundaries with asking for to much more time which in this case would be the mother’s resistant point. Mom wants to be able to leave the park as soon as possible without actually demanding the children to leave, which this would be considered the starting point or also known as the target point. If mom is willing to discuss this with the children then both groups would negotiate between the initial offer of two minutes and asking offer of the children’s five minutes. Sometimes if mom is willing to go along with the children then there might be a settlement range maybe somewhere between two and
03-15-15
COM312
Being a Nanny Children are full of tricks when it comes to negotiating wether it be with candy, what they want to wear, where they want to go for the day, or how they think they should be punished. A nanny is job in which one cares for children in the comfort of their own home. That being said there are several situations where the nanny needs to quickly think about how to resolve a situation and usually this ends in compromising with the child to make sure that both the rules are being followed but also so that the child thinks they have some sort of control of the situation. Another aspect of this job is communicating with the parents and trying to negotiate what is the best solutions for the many occurrences that will take place through the duration of this job. A clever way children have come up to negotiate what they want is to bargain with time. This is a lot like the distributive bargaining situation (Lewicki, Barry, and Saunders, 36). Which when the children are at the park and the mother says ok we are leaving in two minutes the children come back and say, “no five minutes” and then the mother either taking that offer or saying no and letting the children know that they will still only have two minutes until it is time to leave. The optimal goal for the children is to stay at the park as long as they can without over stepping their boundaries with asking for to much more time which in this case would be the mother’s resistant point. Mom wants to be able to leave the park as soon as possible without actually demanding the children to leave, which this would be considered the starting point or also known as the target point. If mom is willing to discuss this with the children then both groups would negotiate between the initial offer of two minutes and asking offer of the children’s five minutes. Sometimes if mom is willing to go along with the children then there might be a settlement range maybe somewhere between two and