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[quote=Anonymous]We hired our nanny almost 6 months ago and while my 10 month old really likes her, DH and I are not sure she is exactly what we want for the long term. We don’t necessarily want to let her go, but are worried if we decide later on it isn’t working out it will be harder for our son later on. Our main issues are as follows:

- in six months she has not set up a single playdate for DS, and while she takes him for walks daily, she has never sought out a storytime or any other activities. I don’t think she even took him to the playground when it was warmer a couple month ago (granted he was only like 7/8 months). I signed him up for a class once a week so I thought she could meet others there and arrange something but she hasn’t. We have mentioned we would like him to get out more and asked if she’s met any other nannies but she says no.

- she will do anything we ask but is never proactive. She doesn’t offer to cook for DS, doesn’t organize his drawers especially when he outgrows things, etc.

- she always forgets to tell us when we are running low on supplies like diapers or wipes. Tonight I got home from work and she told me we were completely out of diapers. I reminded her to please tell me in advance so I have time to order them since now I  have to run out to the store.

- she is a few minutes late almost every day. We have asked her to try to be on time and she says she will, but she isn’t. While my job is flexible and I don’t have to be there at a set time, I don’t love that I am now getting to work later and later everyday, and there have been a couple times I was late for meetings because the later I leave the worse the traffic is.

So based on the above how egregious are these? When I talk to friends with nannies they don’t seem to have these problems which is why I am second guessing things so much. The hard part is that we really like her personally so I would definitely feel bad letting her go. But I also don’t want to feel like we are settling. What would others do here?
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