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[quote=Anonymous]Our new nanny has been with us for a few months and we’re considering letting her go for the following reasons.

She’s not happy keeping the kids at home in our backyard and nearby parks and constantly tries to push us to agree to take them on 45min outings one way. She doesn’t wash her hands and touches kids food after they’ve been out. She doesn’t wash kids hands either. We don’t trust her to take kids to nearby parks either anymore because how lax she is about hygiene.

She has a very old school way of discipline where she thinks it will work to sharply say no to a toddler and they will comply. She almost engaged in power struggles with the toddler hoping she will “win”. We have tried to talk to her about our preferred discipline methods (redirect and help calm down during a tantrum while still holding the boundary) but she’s not willing (or able?) to implement this. She’s said multiple times that most people were raised that way and “turned out fine”.

We’ve told her to limit sugar in our kids diets but she still gives them cookies and chocolate all the time. She disagrees and is not willing to implement our dietary requirements which are pretty balanced - we’re fine feeding cookies once a day but not in huge amounts or instead of a meal.

The list goes on.

She’s just the completely wrong fit for us although she is very hardworking, proactive and does get stuff done.

Would you let go of her knowing how hard it is to find a nanny now? We don’t want our children to get too attached to someone who we know that we will let go sooner or later. We prefer to find someone who can stay with us long term.[/quote]

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