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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]

What's shocking to me is the amount of time kids are watching things on the phone.  Just yesterday I was walking my dog and I saw a little girl (maybe 3ish) on a walk in a stroller hunched over watching a video on her phone wile the mom or nanny was talking on the phone.  What was the point of going for the walk??[/quote]

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