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Anonymous wrote:We found our amazing and brilliant nanny on care.com but also signed up with an agency. Don’t expect a bargain, OP. Good nannies are expensive.

Our nanny has a liberal arts degree but has taught in preschool and taken nearly all her graduate school classes in Early Childhood Development. She lives alone and has willingly formed a pod with us (we see no one but nanny and she sees no one but us). She’s older and has absolutely no problem asking passers by to step back from our baby’s stroller.

She’s just smart. I guess that’s the bottom line. She gets it. And she truly loves my son and would never put him at risk.

That's amazing. Seems it would be hard to find. May I ask how much you pay? Id assume it would be hard to find someone who can live alone and work exclusively for someone without a higher wage.

We are looking for someone to start January 2022. Also, might I ask if your nanny might have any referrals of other nannys? Happy to give more info about myself and what we are looking from. Advice from other moms on here so far is that word of mouth is the best way so am giving it a try! New to the area after living in NYC for several years. Based in Arlington. I appreciate any help you can offer/insight into costs if you don't mind.

We’re in West Los Angeles which, I believe, skews higher than DC but our nanny started with us two years ago at $30 an hour and is now up to $32 an hour for our toddler and newborn.

Sorry I can’t help with word-of-mouth!

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Anonymous wrote:From a nanny's perspective: the best matches with families have come through word of mouth. Start asking coworkers, family and friends for recommendations and also to put their feelers out. You have time. I know of 3 nannies who would be looking right now, if not for staying on to supervise distance learning. Assuming school goes back and stays in person, they will need new jobs come September.

I don't have this option as I'm new to the area and I dont know anyone. so am reaching out on here and looking for websites. Hopefully there is time - thanks

Get on all of the neighborhood FB parents groups. Do you work? As co-workers. Ask your husband’s coworkers.

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Anonymous wrote:We found our amazing and brilliant nanny on care.com but also signed up with an agency. Don’t expect a bargain, OP. Good nannies are expensive.

Our nanny has a liberal arts degree but has taught in preschool and taken nearly all her graduate school classes in Early Childhood Development. She lives alone and has willingly formed a pod with us (we see no one but nanny and she sees no one but us). She’s older and has absolutely no problem asking passers by to step back from our baby’s stroller.

She’s just smart. I guess that’s the bottom line. She gets it. And she truly loves my son and would never put him at risk.

That's amazing. Seems it would be hard to find. May I ask how much you pay? Id assume it would be hard to find someone who can live alone and work exclusively for someone without a higher wage.

We are looking for someone to start January 2022. Also, might I ask if your nanny might have any referrals of other nannys? Happy to give more info about myself and what we are looking from. Advice from other moms on here so far is that word of mouth is the best way so am giving it a try! New to the area after living in NYC for several years. Based in Arlington. I appreciate any help you can offer/insight into costs if you don't mind.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From a nanny's perspective: the best matches with families have come through word of mouth. Start asking coworkers, family and friends for recommendations and also to put their feelers out. You have time. I know of 3 nannies who would be looking right now, if not for staying on to supervise distance learning. Assuming school goes back and stays in person, they will need new jobs come September.

I don't have this option as I'm new to the area and I dont know anyone. so am reaching out on here and looking for websites. Hopefully there is time - thanks

Anonymous wrote:We found our amazing and brilliant nanny on care.com but also signed up with an agency. Don’t expect a bargain, OP. Good nannies are expensive.

Our nanny has a liberal arts degree but has taught in preschool and taken nearly all her graduate school classes in Early Childhood Development. She lives alone and has willingly formed a pod with us (we see no one but nanny and she sees no one but us). She’s older and has absolutely no problem asking passers by to step back from our baby’s stroller.

She’s just smart. I guess that’s the bottom line. She gets it. And she truly loves my son and would never put him at risk.

Anonymous wrote:From a nanny's perspective: the best matches with families have come through word of mouth. Start asking coworkers, family and friends for recommendations and also to put their feelers out. You have time. I know of 3 nannies who would be looking right now, if not for staying on to supervise distance learning. Assuming school goes back and stays in person, they will need new jobs come September.

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Anonymous wrote:How to find a good nanny? Any tips? I am due in May and looking for someone to start end of September. Super worried because of Covid and hoping to find someone who can just work with me. Really have no idea where to turn ! Any tips would be helpful. Thank you

If you don't want them to have a weekend/after hours gig with another family, you really need to make sure you paying more than enough for them to live on and make it worth it. I see so many ads of parents only wanting 25 hours/week of care @$15-20/hr and expecting to the the nanny's only job, and for the nanny to live alone and not take public transportation. No nanny is going to dig into their savings to accommodate that.

So maybe figure out how much a nanny would need to earn to afford housing, car payment, food, entertainment, savings, etc. and make sure you are paying above and beyond that amount.

While we pay our nanny $28 an hour and she can afford to live alone, that alone is not enough to guarantee a smart nanny who will take needed precautions. I hate to be ageist but the young nannies don’t get it. They’re still socializing and seeing friends. And as a Mexican-American myself, my own community isn’t getting it either.

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Anonymous wrote:How to find a good nanny? Any tips? I am due in May and looking for someone to start end of September. Super worried because of Covid and hoping to find someone who can just work with me. Really have no idea where to turn ! Any tips would be helpful. Thank you

If you don't want them to have a weekend/after hours gig with another family, you really need to make sure you paying more than enough for them to live on and make it worth it. I see so many ads of parents only wanting 25 hours/week of care @$15-20/hr and expecting to the the nanny's only job, and for the nanny to live alone and not take public transportation. No nanny is going to dig into their savings to accommodate that.

So maybe figure out how much a nanny would need to earn to afford housing, car payment, food, entertainment, savings, etc. and make sure you are paying above and beyond that amount.

Anonymous wrote:How to find a good nanny? Any tips? I am due in May and looking for someone to start end of September. Super worried because of Covid and hoping to find someone who can just work with me. Really have no idea where to turn ! Any tips would be helpful. Thank you