Gothamist: The Nanny Search Gets Brutally Honest on Craigslist

silverdart

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:10:12 -0500

This woman needs help(and I DON"T mean nanny-type). Oh, and her "Art" sucks, my kids did better paintings in grade school,in fact, my daughter had one of her paintings displayed in the Worcester Art Museum, when she was 10 years old!

alank

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:02:42 -0500

Her painting of the nude little girl is disturbing.

robingee

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:39:49 -0500

#5 - no joke! UGH!

1kid2luvinMD

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:05:43 -0500

Are you people crazy? What's so wrong with her telling the ugly TRUTH about her life, even if it involves her kids? I guess it's ok to say "my husband is a pain in the azz" but not ok to say that about your kids? How many of you have kids? You mean to HONESTLY tell me that you've never, EVER thought at one time "d@mn, these kids are a pain in the azz?" I'll be willing to bet that at least 85% of your parents did!!! I have one child and I work with kids all day in an elementary school and believe me when I tell you, kids can very much be a pain in the azz, even if they are yours! Get over yourselves! If you really want a shocker, check out truemomconfessions.com. If it were up to the people on this board, there wouldn't be any people on the planet since all people were pain in the azz kids at one time in their lives!!!!!

Tard

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:40:12 -0500

wow, I had to register and comment after reading about this waste of skin. Four kids that you really don't want to have anything to do with. Here is an idea quit your dayjob as a painter because it is on the same level as a high school artist that is just starting to experiment with alcohol. Spend the time connecting with your kids and learning some patience and compassion for others. People like this b!tch make me sick. I hope her kids realize what a pos she is and are nowhere to be found when she is on her deathbed and are caring for their own children the way a good parent does.

Ronkonkoma Ondinnonk

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:50:05 -0500

This is the itinerary one's life takes when one's every minute is consumed with the morbid terror of one's own irrelevance.

Troll

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:46:59 -0500

She's forty something. It's her new nanny that's 25.

wowthatsucks

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:40:20 -0500

25 and 4 kids already

Jerky

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:28:48 -0500

She needs to stop having unprotected sex and start eating....

surlybroad

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:57:29 -0500

I want to know why this woman has FOUR children. ugh!

NannyState

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:54:17 -0500

I wonder how many times she's attempted to exchange her kids at Bergdorf's.."by mistake".

Pull My Finger

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:26:14 -0500

If a nanny will not take it in the third input she is not qualified.

dooWOP

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:04:26 -0500

I guess trust funds aren't utilized too often out in the Midwest...

mihow

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:35:12 -0500

Well, we know what she's not doing when she's not watching her kids, she's not eating.

Troll

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:12:38 -0500

Better yet, lets caption those images, Bubba! "Don't cry honey, you were dragged to this adult event and you'll like it! Pretty soon you'll be grown up enough to drown your own kids cries with a glass of wine, too."

Bubba

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:00:34 -0500

http://www.rebeccalandsoodak.com/opening.html Take a look at image 32 and image 33. I think one of the twins is crying...

Bubba

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:53:55 -0500

#13: Is that you Mrs.Soodak????

La Leone

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:48:47 -0500

Checklist for those WANTING a to be a cookie cutter member of the idle rich (Sorry, feeling scathing today...) -Move to Upper East Side. CHECK. Longest standing symbol of elitism, radically different than other sections of NYC known for diversity on many levels. -Hire nanny. CHECK. Chances are overwhemlingly so that you are white, so hire a Black, Hispanic or other minority if you're a traditionalist. White nanny if you're a "radical" UESider. -Obtain country home. CHECK. No if's and's or buts - it's necessary to escape the "hectic" city lifestyle on weekends. -Give to plenty of charities. CHECK. Hell, it balances/justifies shopping binges and gives a chance to dress up and socialize @ charity balls. - Study one of the "Classic Arts" to be well-rounded. CHECK. If you choose to paint make sure your "style" is either classically tradional or seemingly primitive. -Fight being stereotyped as the person who leads the lifestyle you've chosen for yourself. CHECK. -Go braless at one's own art open just in case paintings fail to garner enough attention...CHECK. (see link) Priceless! http://www.rebeccalandsoodak.com/opening.html I could go on and on but starting to feel guilty...:(

TN

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:43:04 -0500

A painter and a writer? If she doesn't have a real job, why doesn't she just take care of her own kids? Because she's jealous of the single women she sees everyday in the city and secretly wishes she was one of them. At least she can pretend that she's one of them when someone else is taking care of her children. If she was a good painter/writer, she would have a job. What she does is more of a hobby to keep her away from reality and I can't really say I blame her with 4 children.

meowster

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:28:46 -0500

woah #13 sounds like Soodak herself. Take it down a notch... "huh"?

JMH

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:11:57 -0500

A painter and a writer? If she doesn't have a real job, why doesn't she just take care of her own kids?

harrison junkins

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:04:20 -0500

Could it be that these children are hellions because their mother is willing to publish how little she wants them? If she disrespects her own offspring that much, imagine what will happen the first time the new nanny uses the guest soaps by mistake.

592810

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:51:11 -0500

Ok, #1 (2:36pm). Under your logic, people with money should not hire other people to help them with their children, because that is the same as buying slaves? Huh? Should my nanny work 12 hours a day for minimum wage because it's offensive that she was offered a job that pays 2X as much taking care of children? You are ignorant, and patronizing. And you, #8(3:21pm) - this is a 25 year-old without experience in a granted tough job, with part-time hours, making 22k with a free studio (value- another 10K). Is that so bad? Did anyone force her to take it? This is not a charity - it's a job. No one has to take it if they don't want to,

PTG in nyc

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:26:40 -0500

miz coaster, $22k is low, but is free room and board bad? That's an additional post tax market cost of $1500 or more a month. More like a 50 or 60k salary at that point.

takethecanoli

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:25:13 -0500

What a shock. UES trophy wives are vapid dipshits. In other news, water is wet.

marymj

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:45:49 -0500

robingee: She lives in her pity pot all day...

robingee

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:37:28 -0500

How are they so rich just owning a liquor store? She paints and writes, but doesn't have a book deal? So what does she do all day?

miz coaster

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:21:15 -0500

I understand setting up the girl in a studio apt... but $430 a week for 4 children? I hope this kid who is working for this woman realizes that my friend paid their nanny 25k/year 5 years ago for 1 child... $22,360 is a measily salary for someone who is starting out in NYC and for FOUR children!!!! How CHEAP. And a studio in a building THEY OWN. cheap. totally cheap. Sorry, but why did you bother having children? The nanny is practically an indentured slave. I bet this couple makes this girl clean the apt and run errands too. oh and cook too, i imagine she has to cook too. and stay out of the wine cellar. assholes. Quit kid. QUIT NOW. You are being DUPED.

Steven

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:18:42 -0500

Disgusting. She is a rich snotty hole. If you find children annoying then whey have FOUR of them!?

mihow

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:12:09 -0500

Maybe her kids would be better behaved and easier to handle if she had a go at actually raising them?

PBRK

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:00:25 -0500

oof- her art is worse than her parenting

Tgirl

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:58:55 -0500

[2] answer: anchor babies, hipster-style "Soodak is a painter and writer" who also happens to have rather expensive shopping habits. Cue hapless sap w/ checkbook, breed w/ said sap and then hire nanny.

marymj

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:48:38 -0500

I just lost my lunch. I find this woman really pathetic.

Bubba

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:46:39 -0500

Why did this woman have children?

babyhitler

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:36:13 -0500

banksy, you listening to me? You know what would be cutting edge? you painting 4 black slaves holding white babies as nannies in the 1800's and then painting 4 upper west side black nannies holding white babies with a caption that says "slavery is over". It would be genius.