Gift for Nanny at the end of the Nanny Share?

Anonymous
We have been in a nanny share for the past 1.5 years. DS will be starting daycare - but the nanny will be continuing with the other family and a new family is starting. Do you usually give a gift of some sort on the last day? If so - what/how much?
Anonymous
I would give a small token gift (ornament with a picture of your child? "World's best nanny" refrigerator magnet) and two weeks pay as a parting bonus.
Anonymous
I would give cash...an extra pay check. No magnet..
Anonymous
Money. As much as you feel is warranted. I'd say 2 weeks pay feels right for the amount of time you've been in the share.
Anonymous
Money and a small photobook of your kid. As a former nanny, I also really appreciate being added to the annual Christmas card list. It's nice getting little updates from all the kids I cared for.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Money and a small photobook of your kid. As a former nanny, I also really appreciate being added to the annual Christmas card list. It's nice getting little updates from all the kids I cared for.
former nanny here and I agree with this.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I would give a small token gift (ornament with a picture of your child? "World's best nanny" refrigerator magnet) and two weeks pay as a parting bonus.


No one wants an ornament of your kid lol and no one wants that magnet. A small photo book of the kid makes sense, along with the $, of course.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Money and a small photobook of your kid. As a former nanny, I also really appreciate being added to the annual Christmas card list. It's nice getting little updates from all the kids I cared for.


+1
Anonymous
Agree - we did a Shutterfly book and $$
Anonymous
Absolutely.

Two weeks pay (of what you usually pay, so it'll feel like 1 weeks pay for her) plus a little token. If she celebrates Christmas, a like a Christmas ornament frame with a picture of the kids (or her and the kids! Even better!)
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I would give cash...an extra pay check. No magnet..


Agree. Afterall, if a magnet gets in water.... you know what happens!
Anonymous
Cash is king
Anonymous
I think a photobook is a little much. Maybe one nice 4x6 or 5x7 photo in a classic style frame of your child and the nanny. Plus cash.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I think a photobook is a little much. Maybe one nice 4x6 or 5x7 photo in a classic style frame of your child and the nanny. Plus cash.


Just to clarify, I don't mean to much money. I mean what is the nanny going to do with a photobook just of your kid?
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think a photobook is a little much. Maybe one nice 4x6 or 5x7 photo in a classic style frame of your child and the nanny. Plus cash.


Just to clarify, I don't mean to much money. I mean what is the nanny going to do with a photobook just of your kid?


Not to mention that making one is time intensive. I barely find the time to make one for myself.
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