When I finally became a mum last year, I eagerly joined some local facebook mums groups, before retreating in horror at the kind of person who is often using those forums (this was before I was placed in a fantastic local mums group by my council). One of the posters there was looking for a nanny and reached out to other mums and asked if $250 would be sufficient as weekly pay 'because it was only one kid'. Instead of being leapt upon and esten alive i was disgusted to see that many of the comments were agreeing that was probably enough since they didnt require many hours and it was just one kid. One woman claimed it was more than fair pay, because she had a nanny for her 4 kids (!!!) and paid $350 a week. This is in AUD, and completely illegal. Most parents are great, but there are swathes of really entitled pricks out there.