Are you giving a year end bonus since it’s been a year and it’s the holidays?

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny's last day with us is this Friday. She has been with us for a year. My kids will be in school full time, so we no longer need a nanny. Parting ways on good terms, and she's found a new family already, which we helped her with.

What should I do for her on Friday to thank her? I was thinking of having the boys make cards, I'll hand write her a nice note, and give her flowers? What are some other ideas? What will she appreciate? She was a wonderful nanny.

Wonderful nanny and all you are giving her are cheap flowers and handmade cards from children! Wow, just wow.

lots of hugs plus one extra week check

Money. Always money

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny's last day with us is this Friday. She has been with us for a year. My kids will be in school full time, so we no longer need a nanny. Parting ways on good terms, and she's found a new family already, which we helped her with.

What should I do for her on Friday to thank her? I was thinking of having the boys make cards, I'll hand write her a nice note, and give her flowers? What are some other ideas? What will she appreciate? She was a wonderful nanny.

Money! Get real that she really wants another card with your kids tracing their hands and crappy half dead flowers. She will appreciate a monetary gift.

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny's last day with us is this Friday. She has been with us for a year. My kids will be in school full time, so we no longer need a nanny. Parting ways on good terms, and she's found a new family already, which we helped her with.

What should I do for her on Friday to thank her? I was thinking of having the boys make cards, I'll hand write her a nice note, and give her flowers? What are some other ideas? What will she appreciate? She was a wonderful nanny.

Money and good reference

I was a Nanny for 7 years and they gave me nothing. I gave them 2 months notice too.

I’ve had sitters now, as a parent and when they go to college I give a $50 gift card. They’re not Nanny’s though. Just HS age sitter for PT help.

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny's last day with us is this Friday. She has been with us for a year. My kids will be in school full time, so we no longer need a nanny. Parting ways on good terms, and she's found a new family already, which we helped her with.

What should I do for her on Friday to thank her? I was thinking of having the boys make cards, I'll hand write her a nice note, and give her flowers? What are some other ideas? What will she appreciate? She was a wonderful nanny.

Wow! Your generosity is underwhelming! Flowers your probably bought at a grocery store that are half dead and a nice note. Beyond underwhelming.

Anonymous wrote:Cake, flowers, nice gift she'd enjoy and a bonus check.

A bonus check and a Christian Dior purse.

We gave our nanny a picture with the kids, a card made by them, and a week’s pay in cash. I asked around our neighborhood (DC) and that was what was typical. She still babysits for us frequently and we know we can call on her in the future.

I think it’s cheap not to give a cash parting gift, honestly. This is an expensive area. A nanny keeps your kids safe. Even if she has another job with no gap, she could surely use that money. It’s so weird to pinch pennies in this situation.

Anonymous wrote:Life is hard. Inflation hit us all.

Give what you can but if you can give money, cash, not gift cards. Like 2 week pay.
Some families gives the whole month pay. Others 2 weeks, others 3 weeks

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have left several jobs on mutual terms, and my bosses have MAYBE had cookies or a modest happy hour in the break room to wish me well and say goodbye. Why a week's pay for nannies? That's more than $1,000. It just seems like a lot to me.

Because she carefully attended to your children, enabled you to keep advancing in your own job, and was a "wonderful nanny."

Not necessary if you paid her well on the books and gave her an annual bonus.

Agreed. You don’t give a weeks salary after a year. Make it clear you’re always available as a reference, maybe give her a nice photo of her with the boys, thank you notes from them & a gift card to somewhere you know she could use

She already has photos of herself with children as ND doesn't need another. If you appreciated having someone who loved your children and took excellent care of them, allowing you to work and not worry, then give her a minimum of one week's salary. If you're too cheap to do this then do not expect her to ever be available as a sitter.

I am not a nanny.

Sure.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have left several jobs on mutual terms, and my bosses have MAYBE had cookies or a modest happy hour in the break room to wish me well and say goodbye. Why a week's pay for nannies? That's more than $1,000. It just seems like a lot to me.

Because she carefully attended to your children, enabled you to keep advancing in your own job, and was a "wonderful nanny."

Not necessary if you paid her well on the books and gave her an annual bonus.

Agreed. You don’t give a weeks salary after a year. Make it clear you’re always available as a reference, maybe give her a nice photo of her with the boys, thank you notes from them & a gift card to somewhere you know she could use

She already has photos of herself with children as ND doesn't need another. If you appreciated having someone who loved your children and took excellent care of them, allowing you to work and not worry, then give her a minimum of one week's salary. If you're too cheap to do this then do not expect her to ever be available as a sitter.

I am not a nanny.