'I was a Black man who was a nanny, people treated me differently'

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In this original essay, Shaun Flores tells Newsweek what it was like to be a male nanny.

I have always had a strong paternal instinct. Then, in 2018, I thought: What better way to channel that, than to look after children? So, I signed up a remote nanny website. I didn't need to do any training, but I did a Disclosure and Barring Service check, which confirms I don't have a criminal record and can be required in the U.K. to work with children. Then, a woman in Wimbledon, London, had reached out to me.

When I started looking after her son, I would cycle to their house in London and would usually arrive in the evening, when he would come back from school. I would start off by making sure that he had completed his school assignments, we would walk his dog together and I would engage with him, asking him how his day was. I'd then prepare his food for dinner and read a book to him before nighttime.

 

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i don't trust men to be nannies.

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