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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good nannies are 1 in 100 in my experience. So, they're out there and a good nanny is better than the best daycare, but in reality most nannies are bad. So, I think a good daycare trumps a mediocre nanny. And it's impossible to know if a nanny will be good until you're a few months in. Trust me, they're all great on the interview.

Personally I like the reliability, structure and accountability of daycare. I hate employing someone and having to deal with that.

-mom on her third nanny in 18 months who can't find daycare spots [/quote]

Not my experience at all.  We’ve had the same nanny for nearly three years and she’s amazing.  She’s also never once been late and never once called in sick (she took a planned sick day after her second covid shot).  All my friends with nannies love them.  My boss has had the same loving nanny for five years and my BFF for almost 7 years.  DS’s two best buddies have had the same nannies since birth too.

Three different nannies in 18 months?  You either got incredibly unlucky or were underpaying, PP.  [/quote]

I mean I can give anecdotal evidence too. I have a friend who is on her fourth in two years. Another friend had three quit in a few months. My sister had a very well qualified and nanny agency vetted nanny steal prescription drugs from her. We all pay $32+ an hour, seven days of sick leave, fourteen days paid vacation. [b]It's luck.[/b] [/quote]

The people with the amazing nannies who stayed with them for years are lucky. I have a friend who had one of those great nannies for 4 years (since her first kid was born), but she quit at the start of the pandemic because my friend is a doctor who was exposed to COVID every day at work, and the nanny wanted to work for someone who was less exposed. Now my friend has had 4 nannies in a year and her husband is pushing for daycare because it's reliable. Good nannies are very hard to find, and like a PP said, they ALL seem great in the interview.
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NP here and not my experience at all!  Our nanny was a stand out in interviews and I just knew she was the right one for us.  But some interviewed horribly!  One never once looked at the baby and was only concerned with her vacation days; another’s English was so bad that she thought I said I had two children and kept asking about “the other”.

I doubt doubt that we got incredibly lucky finding our amazing Mary Poppins however!  [/quote]

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