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I am absolutely furious about a current situation in my neighborhood.  Three months ago, after extensive, heavy research, sourcing & interviewing, I met a wonderful, loving young women to be a part-time caretaker/ glorified babysitter for my two young sons.  She has bonded incredibly well, they love her, we love her and schedule wise everything has been great.

We treat her as well as we possibly can (because this level help is extremely difficult to find), compensate her very well & she has told me she loves working for us.  She is also very loyal to me and has told me about my neighbor down the street.  This women on more than one occasion has come down to our house when Nanny is with the children and try to coax my nanny into part-time babysitting for her kids on weekend nights.  I have told our Nanny that if she ever wants a weekend night gig- she has one with me no problem.  She really does not- her weekends are her time off (we have discussed this at length- we compensate her extremely well and she is not financially hard up and she likes her weekends for time to herself to have a life) and I have 1-2 other sitters I use for weekend nights.

I'm furious at my troll of a neighbor for putting pressure on this young women (completely inappropriate) and piggybacking off of MY hard work.  Do you think an energetic, fantastic with children, educated, well traveled, bilingual junior Mary Poppins appears out of the blue?? It took me MONTHS to find her.   
This isn't the first time it has happened.  I had my cousin's daughter who is an ex athlete babysit last year and she of course saw her outside playing soccer with my boys and then immediately tried to solicit her.  She never goes directly to ME, if she did I WOULD happily pass along 1-2 weekend sitters that I would recommend to anyone. it is always this sneaky behavior that makes my Nanny/caregiver uncomfortable and me want to march down the street and give her a serious piece of my mind.

What's the best protocol for this?  
Thoughts on how to handle?   [/quote]

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