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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Define "hot day" and tell me how old the baby is, because it depends.

A 2 year old on a high 70s day that felt warm? Not thrilled. A 3 month old in the 90s? Fire immediately.[/quote]

12 month old on a high 70s day that was hot in direct sun. What should I do or say? [/quote]

Is the nanny your employee or do you know the parents and saw it? If the latter, I would want to be told, but in a way that makes it clear the person telling me will understand that I get to do what I want with the information.[/quote]

My employee. She sent me a video of her doing this. (The video was from her perspective of her in the shade, and showed the baby in the stroller in the line.) DH says to give her the benefit of the doubt and that maybe she just sent me the video to show that there was a line. [/quote]
You know her better than we do. If I was just sending a photo of the baby to show the parents where we were and what we were doing, I might snap a similar photo and then go pick up the baby and bring her under the shade with me as soon as I’d taken the photo, leaving the stroller to hold our place in line. I wouldn’t have the sunshade up all the way for the photo because then you couldn’t see the baby.

If you generally find this nanny competent and you like her, just take this as an opportunity to have a discussion about sun exposure and protection and give her guidelines, but don’t mention the photo. It’s that time of year when the sun is getting more intense and now your baby is old enough to play outside, so it’s entirely appropriate to have this discussion.[/quote]

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