«Help, my nanny smokes during childcare!»

The nanny of our children, 6 and 8, recently asked if it was okay for us if she smoked a cigarette on the balcony from time to time during childcare hours. I was totally flabbergasted and didn't know the answer straight away. How would you have reacted?

Beat, 41, Frauenfeld TG

This is what our team of experts says:

  • Stefanie Rietzler is the mother of a son, a psychologist and author («Geborgen, mutig, frei», «Clever lernen»). Together with Fabian Grolimund, she runs the Academy for Learning Coaching in Zurich.
    www.mit- kindern-lernen.ch
  • Nicole Althaus, 51, is editor-in-chief of magazines and a member of the editorial board of «NZZ am Sonntag», columnist and author. She initiated and managed the mum blog on tagesanzeiger.ch and was editor-in-chief of «wir eltern». Nicole Althaus is the mother of two children
    aged 20 and 16.
  • Peter Schneider, 64, is a columnist, satirist, psychoanalyst, private lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Zurich and visiting professor for the history and scientific theory of psychoanalysis in Berlin. He is the father of an adult son.

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