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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I agree 100% with the PP that the primary goal should be prevention.  I do feel that having the cameras does do that to some extent because the nannies are aware of the cameras and are more careful.  As far as not doing a good job picking good candidates, the first time I didn't listen to my instincts as well as I should have since it was the first time I hired a nanny but as far as prior research I'm not really sure how I could have done it differently.  The first time the nanny had worked for good friends of ours for years and they and their kids loved her.  She had a degree in early childhood education and everything she said to me was exactly what I wanted to hear.  She had good references and her background check all checked out.  After she started working for us I think she actually went crazy (it probably had been brewing for a while but she had been with the previous family for so long I think they ignored some of the signs).

After it didn't work out with the first crazy nanny we started using an agency and had 2 wonderful nannies who both moved on to do other things with their lives but have stayed in touch with us and still come and see us sometimes.  The next nanny was also from the agency.  All of the references said only good things about her and she had worked for the agency for several years.  To me she always seemed very sweet and always told me how good my kids were.  She gave the impression that she loved my kids too.  Whenever I observed her with them she was always very kind and sweet to them.  My kids are too little though to tell me how things are when I'm not there.  That's how the cameras helped.  She was very sweet and nice to the baby but was very impatient with the toddler.  I could go in to details of what she did but that's not the point.  The point is I would never have known any of this without the cameras.  She wasn't horrible but just not as loving to my toddler as I wanted her to be when I wasn't around.  None of the previous references would have known that either without cameras because she acts very different when parents are around.[/quote]

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