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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm with you. We've always hired older nannies for this very reason. I cannot handle young kids always on their phones never paying attention to or engaged with kids. I used to see it all the time with nannies at parks and playgrounds. Parents never have a clue and always told me how great their nannies were. Yup.

My advice is to hire an older nanny who may not be as addicted to social media/apps all day (or whose greatest concern is going out at night and meeting people). We hired a nanny at age 55 and she's been with us 10 years. Never had any phone/technology/missed work issues. We count ourselves lucky. [/quote]

Yeah I stayed home for two years and was shocked at the number of nannies on their phones/totally disengaged with kids. And I don’t mean like they checked their phone once or twice or made a call or two. Watching kids can be so boring. I mean just literally sitting for the entire time on the phone, occasionally glancing up to make sure the toddler hadn’t escaped or something. [/quote]
There is a nanny at our local park who is chatting on her phone every time I see her. I don’t even know who these people are who can chat on the phone with her every day for hours. She pushes the toddler in a stroller and then just lets him sit in it or move around playground while she talks on the phone. In some ways it might be safer than the other nannies who scroll Insta, because at least her eyes are on the child. I’ve only met one nanny at the park who didn’t use her phone and she even told me that her employers were really strict about it. I think the other employers just don’t realize the extent of their nannies’ phone use.[/quote]

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