Anonymous wrote:She knows you will let her go as soon as you no longer need her services. She is preparing for her future and wants more financial security.

Guarantee you’d fire her as soon as your kid goes to pre school. She is watching out for her future, doubtful you have HER best interest in mind.

Pay her tuition while she works for you.

Offer her health insurance.

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Anonymous wrote:Offer to pay all or a portion of her tuition and accommodate the hours so she can work and go to school at the same time. By the time she is done, you won’t need her.

If I were a nanny I would jump on this opportunity.

+ 1

She is a great employee, so you let her work for you part time. Maybe even supervising a new nanny at times. Make it a win-win proposition.

Anonymous wrote:Offer to pay all or a portion of her tuition and accommodate the hours so she can work and go to school at the same time. By the time she is done, you won’t need her.

If I were a nanny I would jump on this opportunity.

Anonymous wrote:My Nanny wants to pursue a job in early childhood education but I don't want her to leave. Want can I do to keep her around?

Wrap her on chains. Lock her in a closet. Stop being ridiculous. She is a free agent and can leave and pursue her dreams and desires.

Offer to pay all or a portion of her tuition and accommodate the hours so she can work and go to school at the same time. By the time she is done, you won’t need her.

She knows you will let her go as soon as you no longer need her services. She is preparing for her future and wants more financial security.

Anonymous wrote:You don't. You let her do what she needs to do. Be gracious and ask that she stay in your lives as an occasional sitter if she wants to.

+1. Your only option could be if she could do with you part time while pursuing studies at the same time.

Otherwise, anything you convince her with would only be a temporary solution and she’ll leave anyway. My first Aupair left after a year to pursue her masters degree and work in her field of study. I was sad that she left but I could understand that nannying was not the future she envisioned for herself.

Pay her a lot more. Pay her several more weeks of vacation.
Money talks.

Let her go, OP. Be supportive and you’ll be able to keep her in your child’s life as a babysitter and/or trusted, loving friend. Think about what is best for your nanny.


You will never get ahead or get what you want by purposely quashing someone else’s dreams.

Be a parent. Be a grown-up. Let her go.

Let her live her life

Pay her a LOT more. Or, even better, let her move on with her life and help a lot more kids than your own.

You don't. You let her do what she needs to do. Be gracious and ask that she stay in your lives as an occasional sitter if she wants to.

My Nanny wants to pursue a job in early childhood education but I don't want her to leave. Want can I do to keep her around?