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[quote=Anonymous]Hello, we have a wonderful nanny for our 3.5 year old son and I am on maternity leave with our newborn.  Let me first say that we absolutely adore our nanny and our son loves her too. She is caring, kind, generous and helps us out in any way she can. My son is going through a difficult phase, the terrible threes and can at times be very difficult to handle, as on getting him to eat, or put on shoes I. A timely manner, or turn off the tv, etc etc etc. I know this is pretty typical for a toddler and am not particularly worried bc I think it will pass, especially since he does get time outs for the truly bad behavior, and does understand the consequences etc. but he seems to act out more for our nanny than with us. I think a large part of it is that she takes him to the playground twice per day and does the same activities every day. I think he is getting bored. I have tried telling her that varying the routine will help, And have given her informAtion about local events they could go to, places my son likes, etc. my husband even took them both to the local library to show her where it was, got her the schedule of classes, etc. but she hasn't done any of those things for the past two months. Then my son gets bored and frustrated and gives her  a hard time, and I wonder how she is going to take care of them both when I go back to work. FYI, she also doesn't enforce timeouts which I think makes the problem worse. While we love our nanny and don't want to ,one her, I am not sure how to get her to try our suggestions or to vary their routine and also enfor e the discipline. P,ease help, because I on,y have 3 more weeks of leave before I go back to work and right now I don't think she can handle them both!!![/quote]

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