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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Live-in help is not great unless you have a separate guest house.  We hated having a live-in nanny, for example, and after a brief experiment with it, we found we were happy to pay a higher rate for a live-out nanny.  [/quote]

This. My SIL said I would get used to it but I never did. Live-out help is the way for people that value their privacy. [/quote]

I didn't even like having a live-out nanny. I've always found the relationships my friends' families have with their nannies to be strange with kind of blurry boundaries, plus I'd hear stories about things like salary negotiations with an existing nanny where you are negotiating with someone that you think of as kind of an extension of your family and it just made me feel icky. We didn't do a nanny for this reason. I prefer the professionalism of a childcare center where the staff is more like the teachers at a preschool -- we had warm relationships with them, my kid really loved them, but the childcare was happening in a facility designed for that purpose and they weren't in my home and we weren't in each other's lives in such an intimate way. I think it makes things blurry in a way I do not like.[/quote]

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