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[quote=Anonymous]We are currently still an almost no tv house, though I am probably less committed to that than you, but if you explicitly said no tv and she is defying that then you need to have a very direct conversation.

I wouldn't necessarily fire a caregiver I liked and trusted over this, but I would not let it go.

Perhaps you could sit down with her and say that you're aware she's letting your child watch tv, you thought you'd been very clear that that was not allowed and you're wondering why this is happening.  Don't totally attack - go slow and give her a chance to explain why she's allowed tv, or demonstrate that she's aware she's openly defying you/not respecting your rules, or whatever.

Obviously I don't know anything about your situation, but in my house it's getting pretty hard to find a way to keep our toddlers calm and contained for a few minutes when necessary.  There are times when I or my nanny need to change a load of laundry, answer the door, go to the bathroom, whatever...   I could see where a sitter might need to keep a child settled for a few minutes and turns on the tv to do that.  There's a big difference (in my mind) between that use of tv as a very occasional solution and letting a child sit and watch something for 30/60/90 minutes.

I'm not excusing what the sitter did - just saying that maybe you don't know everything about what's actually going on.  You might feel that 15 minutes once a week is as violating at 60 minutes every day the sitter is there - or you might feel that the sitter needs better solutions that you can help figure out so that the tv doesn't become the answer.

I guess I'm really saying to not totally make up your mind to "feel really violated" without giving the sitter a chance to explain herself.[/quote]

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