{"id":1675,"date":"2006-10-19T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/you_mean_that_pleasant_jamaican_woman_is_not_the_babys_mother.html"},"modified":"2006-10-19T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T17:47:18","slug":"you_mean_that_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/you_mean_that_p.html","title":{"rendered":"You Mean That Pleasant Jamaican Woman Is Not The Baby’s Mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"

1-800-HowsMyDriving for nannies<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While nanny is minding the baby, passersby now can rat out a Mary Poppins who’s less than practically perfect in every way.<\/p>\n

Under a plan pushed by a New York City prosecutor, all they’ll have to do is take down the “license plate” on the tot’s stroller and send an e-mail to the parents.<\/p>\n

The plates are registered to www.howsmynanny.com, a site where informants can plug in the tag’s unique number to alert parents to a nanny’s indiscretions.<\/p>\n

Unlike the vague, gossipy “bad nanny” sightings that proliferate on mommy blogs but don’t necessarily reach a tots’ parents, “There’s no guesswork. You don’t have to say, ‘Is this my nanny?'” said Jill Starishevsky, the assistant district attorney hawking the plates.<\/p>\n

Buyers pay $50 for a 4-inch-by-7-inch plate and private access to notes from tipsters, who can remain anonymous.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then there’s 1-800-HowsMyParenting:<\/p>\n

Starishevsky admitted the system isn’t perfect: Parents could find themselves in the position of receiving reports about themselves.<\/p>\n

“So when my husband is doing pop-o-wheelies with the stroller, someone can tell me he’s doing an illegal act?” joked Jo-el Shea, who was jogging with her 14-week-old son in Central Park this week.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1-800-HowsMyDriving for nannies: While nanny is minding the baby, passersby now can rat out a Mary Poppins who’s less than practically perfect in every way. Under a plan pushed by a New York City prosecutor, all they’ll have to do is take down the “license plate” on the tot’s stroller and send an e-mail to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}