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[quote=Anonymous]Our new nanny quit with no notice. We did not really get a reason as to why. She would like for us to mail her paycheck, but DH and I would like for her to come pick it up. I don't want a confrontation, but I would like some answers.

I'll just answer these questions in advance:
- Of course we plan on paying her for every hour worked, at the agreed upon rate.
- I really just want to know why she quit. We liked her, she seemed to like us, we don't ask her to do housework, we're pretty laid back...I truly don't know what is happening. We've gone through 5 nannies since DD (2yo, only child) was born, and only one was fired. She was mature, much closer to our parents age than ours, and had a totally different style than us. One very small example off the top of my head: she literally refused to use good manners when talking to DD ("DD, pick up your toys!" in a stern tone the first time DD was asked, as opposed to "DD, please pick up your toys."), which is something we're really trying to enforce. She will not learn good manners if she doesn't hear them from her role models.  DD is a good listener, 85% of the time the first time you ask, she does what she's told, and always by the second time. We really only yell in this house if there is a potentially dangerous situation, like the involuntary, "NO!!!" when you see child about to pull a lamp down on their head, so the tone that nanny would use often frightened DD to tears. Just not a good fit for us. We want to find a long-term nanny, but clearly we are doing something wrong here.[/quote]

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