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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WTF! She isn’t allowed to use her phone AT ALL? I am a SAHM and use my phone a lot. Pulling up nursery rhymes on you tube to dance around with the baby. Checking the temp and radar before going for a walk to see if I’ll need an umbrella. Taking pictures when the baby does something cute. Googling a question about how to use a product or something.

Hire a nanny you trust and then trust her to use her judgement. Banning her from using a phone at all, ever, seems insane. If you hire someone who is scrolling social media for hours, then fire her, but you sound awful.[/quote]

No, not when the baby is awake.  She’ll have full breaks when he’s asleep as she’ll have no “chores”.  She can pull up the weather, etc on her watch.

I assure you I am not awful.  I’m simply not addicted to my phone.  [/quote]

And she can ask Alexa or Google to pull up any song or rhyme she wants.  We have both and Alexa in every room. [/quote]

Paranoid about reasonable phone usage but ok with Alexa in every room. SMH.[/quote]

I think you missed OP’s concerns.  She clearly isn’t anti-technology and is giving away Apple watches.  She just want the nanny engaged and paying attention to her child when the child is awake.  Millions of people can’t use their phones while working.  And it sounds like the nanny will have breaks during the day.

I really don’t get the nannies-go-berserk uproar.  And I do think it’s something we’re going to see more and more.  [/quote]

There are not millions of people who are prohibited from using their phone all day while at work.  It was an issue in some warehouses where employees wanted to ban phones because they did not want photos taken of bad conditions on the floor but they have not been very successful enforcing it even in those circumstances.  The only people I know who can’t use personal phones at all are people who work on skif facilities and even they can make a personal call from a landline.  When I took a cruise even the Philippino deck hands were allowed to use their phone to check in on their families while they were swabbing the deck.  
Also it’s developmentally inappropriate for a baby to have someone in their face every waking minute.  If you don’t leave them alone for a bit they won’t figure out “gee, if I want that toy I will need to wiggle my body forward until I can reach it..”. That’s why moms always say “I turned my back for one minute and of course that’s when he started rolling over!”  [/quote]

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