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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is in kindergarten and she met a little girl at the beginning of the year who is now her best friend. We can call her Larla. DH and I work and have a FT nanny, and this mom is a SAHM mom with 3 kids so she is always running around. Larla's parents are really nice and we are friendly, but I wouldn't say we are great friends. The girls get together all the time, but us parents don't really (mainly because we are all busy and I am not home during the week).

My nanny picks my DD up from school at 3pm every day and on Wednesdays she takes gymnastics with Larla. One week when the mom was in a pinch she asked if my nanny could pick Larla up from school too and take her to gym. No problem. But somehow that has become the norm and my nanny now takes her every week. On top of that, she regularly texts my nanny (I gave Larla's mom my nanny's number to coordinate play dates) to ask if she can take Larla home another 1-2x per week when she is stuck or running late. Nanny ends up bringing Larla to our house and the girls play until her mom picks her up at some point. The girls have fun so not a big deal really.

My nanny is the one who tells me all of this, not Larla's mom. I did say something to her mom once, like, if you need my nanny to help regularly we should all discuss together to ensure my nanny is comfortable (and fairly compensated). I truly don't mind sharing my nanny in this way,[b] but DH is really worried that our nanny is getting taken advantage of [/b]- we just have one child so it's nice for her to have someone to play with and our nanny isn't being pulled in a million other directions, but at the same time she gets paid to watch one child, not two. Nanny says she is fine with it and she will let me know if that changes, but she is so nice I am not sure she will.

So, WWYD here? Say something more firm to the mom, let it go? I don't want to make things weird between us because the girls are so close, but at the very least she could buy my nanny a Starbucks gift card or something to thank her, right?[/quote]

And you're not??[/quote]

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