Great nanny candidate will only start with newborn

[Anonymous]

I want job security. I don’t work with toddlers because you won’t need me in a couple years. Newborn = 5 years.

[Anonymous]

It is her perogative to choose, not yours.

[Anonymous]

I tend to only want to start with a baby younger than 3 months and grow with them.

Starting with an older child is difficult, and often not worth it if parents are willing to help facilitate a bond.

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I’ve been a nanny for over 12 years and started job at the 2 and 3 year olds and with babies or babies being born soon later, and most of the older kids loved me and I fell in love with them! There was a couple interviews where the older kid didn’t like me lol
If you’re a loving nanny and fun, and not a spoiled nanny who just wants to watch tv and play on her phone, then the older children will love you. Might take a few weeks though, it takes time, especially when the child had a nanny before. So I really don’t understand the responses here, all you nanny’s only look for jobs with newborns???

Great. Then you take OP’s job. I won’t. And if you think newborns are easier than toddlers, you are doing it wrong. Narrative, reading, singing, doing fingerplay and signing is exhausting. And I do it in English and French. It’s so much easier with communicative toddlers.

+1. Those who think newborns/infants are easy haven’t got a clue. Just a bad nanny...

I'm a mom. Healthy newborns are the easiest childcare gig in the world. Except sleep deprivation but that is normally not the nanny's problem. Spending time with toddlers is way more taxing.

I disagree as both a former nanny and now a mother. Narration alone is exhausting as well as singing, rhymes and reading books when you don’t get any response back for months. Once the baby is nine or ten months, you can see the results of your work in the baby’s ability to communicate and follow verbal cues. You just talk and talk with a newborn. Plus as a nanny and mother, newborn cat naps don’t give you any real break. I would much rather be outside chasing a toddler in the park then walking a baby around the park talking about everything we see.

[Anonymous]

PP from above. And as a nanny, I always started with newborns. I understand OP’s nanny candidate’s refusal. Plus why meet with you if she has no intention of taking the job?

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Anonymous wrote:Lol lol lol
I’ve been a nanny for over 12 years and started job at the 2 and 3 year olds and with babies or babies being born soon later, and most of the older kids loved me and I fell in love with them! There was a couple interviews where the older kid didn’t like me lol
If you’re a loving nanny and fun, and not a spoiled nanny who just wants to watch tv and play on her phone, then the older children will love you. Might take a few weeks though, it takes time, especially when the child had a nanny before. So I really don’t understand the responses here, all you nanny’s only look for jobs with newborns???

Great. Then you take OP’s job. I won’t. And if you think newborns are easier than toddlers, you are doing it wrong. Narrative, reading, singing, doing fingerplay and signing is exhausting. And I do it in English and French. It’s so much easier with communicative toddlers.

+1. Those who think newborns/infants are easy haven’t got a clue. Just a bad nanny...

I'm a mom. Healthy newborns are the easiest childcare gig in the world. Except sleep deprivation but that is normally not the nanny's problem. Spending time with toddlers is way more taxing.

I disagree as both a former nanny and now a mother. Narration alone is exhausting as well as singing, rhymes and reading books when you don’t get any response back for months. Once the baby is nine or ten months, you can see the results of your work in the baby’s ability to communicate and follow verbal cues. You just talk and talk with a newborn. Plus as a nanny and mother, newborn cat naps don’t give you any real break. I would much rather be outside chasing a toddler in the park then walking a baby around the park talking about everything we see.

You know you don't have to do all that stuff with newborns, right? Constant narration, etc. You should be doing SOME, but not CONSTANT. Please read Nurture Shock. You sound like you're overstimulating these babies, and that is why they're all only taking cat naps for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol lol lol
I’ve been a nanny for over 12 years and started job at the 2 and 3 year olds and with babies or babies being born soon later, and most of the older kids loved me and I fell in love with them! There was a couple interviews where the older kid didn’t like me lol
If you’re a loving nanny and fun, and not a spoiled nanny who just wants to watch tv and play on her phone, then the older children will love you. Might take a few weeks though, it takes time, especially when the child had a nanny before. So I really don’t understand the responses here, all you nanny’s only look for jobs with newborns???

Great. Then you take OP’s job. I won’t. And if you think newborns are easier than toddlers, you are doing it wrong. Narrative, reading, singing, doing fingerplay and signing is exhausting. And I do it in English and French. It’s so much easier with communicative toddlers.

+1. Those who think newborns/infants are easy haven’t got a clue. Just a bad nanny...

I'm a mom. Healthy newborns are the easiest childcare gig in the world. Except sleep deprivation but that is normally not the nanny's problem. Spending time with toddlers is way more taxing.

I disagree as both a former nanny and now a mother. Narration alone is exhausting as well as singing, rhymes and reading books when you don’t get any response back for months. Once the baby is nine or ten months, you can see the results of your work in the baby’s ability to communicate and follow verbal cues. You just talk and talk with a newborn. Plus as a nanny and mother, newborn cat naps don’t give you any real break. I would much rather be outside chasing a toddler in the park then walking a baby around the park talking about everything we see.

You know you don't have to do all that stuff with newborns, right? Constant narration, etc. You should be doing SOME, but not CONSTANT. Please read Nurture Shock. You sound like you're overstimulating these babies, and that is why they're all only taking cat naps for you.

Again, I disagree. I have always stopped when the infant breaks contact with me but narrate all other times. As both a nanny and a mom, my charges/kids receptive communication is off the charts. I read Nurture Shock and it isn’t “over stimulation” at all - it is naming their world. Read RIE.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t accept another nanny job with an older child again. I am in it now - a 3.5 yr old and a newborn. The 3.5 yr old loved her old nanny and after six months, I still haven’t bonded with her. I promise you I have tried everything but I just don’t love her. She is a sweet kid and very bright. It makes my job so sad and I won’t last. But I will never tell the parents why I’m leaving.