The Women We Kidnap After 6 P.M.

The nanny's shift ends at six.

The parents have dinner reservations at eight.

Apparently, somewhere between the employment agreement and the second martini, her personal life became an optional subscription.

The fascinating thing about work-life balance is how much easier it becomes when someone else's life is doing all the balancing.

They call her part of the family. An unusually generous offer, considering the family seems to have forgotten she's a professional with working hours, bills, and possibly dinner plans of her own.

The Women We Kidnap After 6 P.M. is an original Tantrum Media Magazine editorial about childcare, class, and the extraordinary things perfectly respectable people consider normal when someone else's life is doing all the accommodating.

What happens when parents forget that the woman raising their children is a worker just like them — except apparently, her right to clock out is a luxury their happy hour can't accommodate?

Darkly funny, sharp, and uncomfortably familiar. Because some people have mastered the art of protecting their personal time by spending someone else's.

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