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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nanny is youngish (30yo) and has been a full-time professional nanny for a few years.  She started working for us a couple months ago and primarily watches my toddler although sometimes she's with my school-aged kid, too.  I know young people nowadays are used to being attached by the hip to their phone, and I'm wondering how much I can reasonably expect her to keep her phone off of her.

I work from home so I sometimes see her during the day.  I've noticed that when she's with my toddler, she'll occasionally be looking at her phone and my guess is she's looking at texts and possibly responding to them.  If I text her when I'm outside the house, 99% of the time, she responds right away, which means her phone is either right next to her or she's holding on to it.

My kids get no screen time except on the weekends and I try to keep my phone away when I'm spending time with them.  I really don't like that one of their primary role models has her phone next to her all of the time and looking at it every time her mom/boyfriend/friends text.  Our former nanny, who was also young, intentionally kept her phone in her purse so she wouldn't be distracted by it and would take 20 minutes (sometimes an hour) to respond to my texts and I was fine with that.

Can I reasonably ask that our current nanny not look at her phone at all (except on her midday break or when she goes to the bathroom) while I'm home?  And that she keep her phone away from her, looking at it only occasionally (like once every 30-60 minutes) while I'm outside the house?[/quote]

Stop texting her if you dont want her to look at her phone.  It some eay you are tricking your nanny.  She probably thinks by responding quickly that is what you want but you want to set her up.[/quote]

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