Anonymous wrote:I'm on my 4th nanny in 4.5 years of motherhood (for random reasons -- a cross country move, a young nanny who went on to a job in the medical field, and one nanny was horrible but that's a different story). Of my three good ones, I was absolutely crushed when the previous one left/we had to leave. I cried, they cried, etc. I thought we'd never top each of them.
And each one was truly better than the last. Our current nanny is an absolute dream and I wish we'd been with her since Day One. And I thought I couldn't do better than my old nannies!
My kids barely skipped a beat. Sure, they had to transition to a new nanny, which took a few days til they acted excited by her arrival rather than shy. But they barely notice that their old (beloved!) nannies are gone. They are 4.5 and 2.5 for reference.
Kids are SO resilient. Hang in there.
If you had 4 nannies in 4.5 years, you are the problem, irrespective of the reason they have for leaving.
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