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Book: The Nanny Diaries

Author: Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

Publishing company: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Year of publishing: 2005

Number of pages: 368

Continuing with the story last week, Nanny, the nanny in Mrs. X.'s house, finally became friends with the naughty little boy Grayer. After handling the relationship problem with Grayer, Nanny thought her work would be easier. On the contrary, more and more problems kept popping up. Mr. and Mrs.X always quarrel about little things that made the atmosphere quite nervous at home. To Nanny's surprise, she found out that Mr. X was having extramarital relations with his colleague! She was facing the dilemma of telling Mrs.X or not. Another problem is that she was in love with Mrs.X's neighbor, the boy who she calls him "Harvard Hottie", but due to the rules she was not allowed to have a boyfriend while being a nanny. The other problem, also the most significant one is Nanny's mother is coming to New York to visit her and she lied to her mother that she was working in a business company. All these problems were driving her crazy!

After deep thinking, she wondered if she was really suitable for this job. Maybe she wasn't that suitable, but because she was the only person Grayer could relied on, she decided to stay. To let Grayer happy, she broke many house rules, not knowing there were Nanny cameras watching her. When Mrs.X found out, she was fired... She feeled released, but sorry to Grayer.

She expressed her madness to Mrs.X by recording a video, telling Mrs.X she should take care of her own children instead of engaging parties everyday and her house rules would not let Grayer have a happy childhood. Mrs.X seemed to be touched by her words. She wrote a letter to thank Nanny for letting her realize the importance of family relationship. She devorced with her husband and there were no more nannies for Grayer anymore, because Mrs.X decided to raise him up by herslf. On the other hand, Nanny found another job she really liked. On the conclusion, both of them began a whole new happy life.

This story tells us money is not omnipotent. Maybe we are not nobles, but we can still have a happy life. We can have more time with our parents and feel love from them. We don't have to observe so many rules which we just need to be ourselves. After reading, I think it is not necessary for us to admire the upper classes, because being rich doesn't mean there will be no problems. However, maybe more. I think being an ordinary people is more comfortable the the rich, so we should cherish the love we have now.