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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP.  Thanks everyone for the responses.  I'm going to start making her daily lists.  I resisted this before because I didn't want to seem like I was micromanaging her, but I doubt it'll bother her (she's easy-going) and I think it'll help.

There's only so much I can list out, though...  Our nanny picks up my older kid from school several times a week and the first day of school after the holiday break, she misremembered the pick-up time as 2:05 instead of 2 p.m.  It's not even she forgot and needed to ask me (which would've been okay), but that she recalled an incorrect time.  And we don't have anything in our schedule that is X:05 that she could have confused it with...  She does this sort of thing from time to time.  I can easily write down times in my list, but there are so many little details like this that she *should* remember, but... doesn't.

A PP asked whether she might have something on her mind that's making her forgetful.  It's certainly possible with the pandemic, but honestly, I don't think that's the issue since this has been ongoing since she went full-time and we sometimes talk about her family and personal life and nothing has stuck out.  Her life frankly is about as easy as it gets given the pandemic; young, healthy, single, family out of state (they're healthy, too), good friends she bubbles with, work schedule is light, duties not tough (she's mostly with the baby).  [/quote]

2:05?  That sounds like she was late and then lied about it by saying she forgot.  Especially if she was picking up the kid at 2PM prior and only had a week off from doing that.  If she truly forgot, I would be very worried about her mental capacity as it is frightening that someone in their 30s would forget what time school pickup is after only a week's break.

For pickup from school, I put a recurring google calendar appointment that I share with our nanny, so it's on her schedule and mine.  No ability to "forget" what time to pick up the kids because it's on the calendar.  [/quote]

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