Does a nanny have to care for your child at your home?

[Anonymous]

I'm worried about leaving a nanny in our home with access to valuables (paintings, jewellery, financial information, personal information). Are there other places for a nanny to care for a child? Is this a common concern?

[Anonymous]

Are you not concerned about leaving your child with a complete stranger? I'd be more worried about that.

I'm a nanny. I strongly believe in families having nanny cams and making their nannies aware they exist.

If you are so concerned about someone working in your home, maybe a nanny isn't a good fit for you. How about a small in-home daycare or a nanny share where you aren't the host family.

[Anonymous]

This is not a common concern. Remember, this is the person you will leave with your children, whom you presumably value far more than your art and jewelry. Obviously don't leave personal and financial information sitting out in plain view, but beyond that, just be very, very picky about who you hire. I sometimes worry about valuables when I have contractors or a cleaning service that I don't know well in the house, but this has seriously never crossed my mind with respect to a nanny.

If you are really concerned about this, consider a nanny share and let the other family do the hosting.

[Anonymous]

Seems strange that you're worried about your stuff, but not about your child. Wow. Do you have a therapist?

[Anonymous]

A nanny must care for your child in your home.

If you don't like the thought of that, an in-home daycare might be a better solution for you. They're smaller than other daycares and still offer a home-based environment, but at the caregiver's home instead of your own.

Honestly though, this is not a common concern. If you can't find someone to hire that you trust not to steal your things or rifle through your mail, then I don't see how you'd be able to find someone you trust to leave with your kids. If you're really set on this and refuse to see a therapist about it, get a nanny cam for the places in the house you'd worry about (jewelry boxes, safe, whatever) and let the nanny know your house has security cameras inside and out.

[Anonymous]

This is what a nanny cam is for.

[Anonymous]

If you wanted to hire me and have me watch your child in my home for my normal hourly rate- I'd do it.

So no, since some of us would and you could join a nanny share that is hosted by the other family you do not *always* have to have the nanny in your home. You have options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you wanted to hire me and have me watch your child in my home for my normal hourly rate- I'd do it.

So no, since some of us would and you could join a nanny share that is hosted by the other family you do not *always* have to have the nanny in your home. You have options.

Sure, ok, some people would be willing, but two issues - first, is the nanny's home set up for FT child care? Where will naps be held, where is the changing table or high chair, where are the kids' bikes kept? It isn't practical. Secondly if it were practical, if the nanny had her home set up for kids, I think she'd either be operating an in home daycare or wouldbe classified as an independent contractor? Not sure on that but the info I found online suggested that might be the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm worried about leaving a nanny in our home with access to valuables (paintings, jewellery, financial information, personal information). Are there other places for a nanny to care for a child? Is this a common concern?

Why do you think the nanny is capable of caring for your child but not your house? Take your kid to daycare.

[Anonymous]

OP is troll who cross posted on GP. Crawl back under your bridge and give my best to the billy goats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm worried about leaving a nanny in our home with access to valuables (paintings, jewellery, financial information, personal information). Are there other places for a nanny to care for a child? Is this a common concern?

The answer to your question is yes. If she's not at your home, she's not your nanny. Simple.

[Anonymous]

I think that a nanny watching a child mainly/exclusively in her own home is technically a daycare and should register as such (unless you are both ok with being/using an unlicensed daycare).

I personally prefer to keep things on my "turf" esp when paying the cost of a nanny. THen again, I dont have many valuables one can take. (Giant pile of books? TV -- meh, don't watch it in any case!) So perhaps I don't understand the concern. If you have really high value items, perhaps your solution is simply a well-vetted nanny. References, references, references.