Video monitoring
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Anonymous
| We had cameras for security pre-nanny kids because we travelled a lot for work and leisure. They were set to only turn on when we left the house. We did not have them turned on when we employed the nanny because we worked from home. After we realized that she was taking things from our house (she admitted it), we had them turned on all of the time. We let go of the nanny a shortly after and sent our child to daycare. It was such a bad experience (with other things as well) that it has turned me off of nannies. We are really happy with the daycare and the socialization. |
Anonymous
| So she was taking things from home? Hmmmm. |
Anonymous
I'm also wondering this. How nannies are have their own children; sometimes they are not allowed to use even just a few min of work her phone; to make just a quick call, dr. Appointment or check their children, calls from meetings from school or emergencies. Probably if they are lucky, I guess these families would allow them to use it in their down time; but most of the time; kids don't nap anymore, so nanny can never have a downtime, never. Because she is always very busy and sometimes barely has 8 or 10 min to give a bite of her lunch. Poor nannies. I were a nanny mom; I wouldn't take a position like that. That would be selfish from employers. Because nannies have also their own family and their own children, mainly if the children are still little. What sad. |
Anonymous
This post was originally posted from 2015 and has resurficed. So the laws and rules are different now. I am a nanny. In many states you are not allowed to monitor sound only visual, so both employers and nannies should be aware of the laws in their state. Have a contract which stipulates your expectations when it comes to cameras. For example in my contract I must know where all the cameras are, so no hidden cameras. Simply because when that baby throws a whole bottle up on me and you just strip off that tshirt until you can get to a clean one, while making sure the baby doesn't choke, I want to know how to just cover up so I am not exposing myself. I love cameras they keep you safe, if anyone remembers the Louise Woodward case, cameras would have played a huge role in that case. I just don't want a parent abusing the use of them. I have also worked for a work from home mom who constantly watched the cameras and would comment on things that happened throughout the day, I LEFT! Her HR department doesn't follow her around all day and I am not going to work well with that intrusiveness and need for control. Stay home with your children if that is the case. So put a clause in your contract regarding cameras, that they have to honor the state laws and anything else that is or is not acceptable. The reality is unless the parents are constantly monitoring their cameras, anything that transpires would be too late by the end of the day. If a nanny wants to hurt a child there are places to go where you cannot record, so it is more about monitoring behavior and interaction with the child/ren that should have been discussed prior anyway. |
Anonymous
| Noooo. Any hacker CAN HACK AND GO IN ANY CAMERA AND WATCH YOUR KIDS |
Anonymous
| Also putting cameras without telling the nanny is illegal |
Anonymous
Then they should stay home with them. |
Anonymous
They don't care how hard you work. The more you do, the more they want. |
Anonymous
| Stupid parents are letting predators watch thier kids through the CAMERAS |
Anonymous
It’s not 2014, security on internal cameras has vastly improved. |
Anonymous
No. Still happens a LOT. It's easy to hack cameras from your own house! If you have one of those cameras that can speak too then the hacker will try to talk to your kids too. It happens |
Anonymous
You know what else happens “a lot“? Caregivers being caught on camera abusing their children or elderly patients. I can cite five cases that made national news this past year. How many cases can you cite in the last year of an unknown predator using a home security system to groom a child? I’ll wait. Because that would, of course, be national news. It’s disingenuous to think that predators are using home security systems in some large scale to get to children, and that therefore no one should have a camera in their home. By that logic, children should not go to school because a predator could see them on the playground, or teens should not have cell phones, because predators can and do reach them via social media. When the drop cam and nest cam were released 10 or so years ago, the lack of security was insane. No encryption, no two factor authentication. They have come a long way. I’m not saying it is not Hackable, but not in the way that PP‘s are making it seem. And like I said, home security systems can do a lot of good. This isn’t that different from most jobs where you are using a company computer. All company email and Internet usage is monitored. And if you aren’t doing anything wrong, that shouldn’t be a problem. |
Anonymous
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Check predators listening, watching and speaking to your kids through "the cameras"
Haha so naive thinking no one went through your camera..Many predators just records your children's rooms... If you don't trust your caregiver then take care of your children YOURSELF or have them under your wings forever |
Anonymous
| Cameras are HACKABLE. Everything can be |
Anonymous
| And is worse when parents puts cameras on the kids rooms. Just more cameras for predators |