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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can find a lower cost nanny share with a good nanny.[/quote]

Nannies with graduate degrees, skill with multiple foreign languages, and lots of experience are popular with wealthier CH families. But you can find younger nannies who are great for a lot less money.

Also, a secret: every one of those super high-paid nannies is also sitting at the park, staring at their phone, while the kids they watch play. Maybe they do more around the house, maybe little Caroline or whatever is becoming fluent in French (she is not). But the truth is, those nannies are doing exactly what parents would be doing — shooting the shit with their friends and texting.

Save your money. You need someone reliable who has good rapport with your kid and can pass a background check. The rest is window dressing.[/quote] Total BS. The nannies that I know who are paid accordingly are interacting with their charges, handling some online schooling, have First Aid/CPR training and usually care about their jobs. I'm sorry you have had a bad experience but no, nannies do not spend their days shooting the shit with their friends and texting. As far as the parents, well you might be right about that but again they are doing it for free.[/quote]

NP. I've been to a gazillion of parks in ritzy Bethesda. Everybody, absolutely everybody sits on their ass. It's life, not BS.[/quote]

Simply not in my experience.  That’s the truth.  The nannies I know are all very involved with the kids.  The mothers I know tend to be on their phones.  I’m not in DC, btw.  [/quote]

This. SO TRUE!!

I was at a park with my nk. (Not in DC at the time, pre Covid)

Nannies on the ground in the sand area. While talking with each other they engaged with the children. All the children. Building, playing, in the sand. Or a few would move to the swings. Or sit on the benches and nks have snacks.  But they were engaging with this charges. And they had to deal with soooo many other kids — kids who’s moms strolled in, parked on a bench. Face in the phone not paying attention. Only looking up when another mom would stroll in sitting next to other moms away from the kids. 
The nannies - helping and playing with those children who’s moms say in the corner talking and scrolling through FB

So while the nannies may chat together- at least they are attending to the children.

But you know moms need a “break” from their kids. [/quote]

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