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[quote=Anonymous]I think if you are migrating from Nanny to AP because you're not thrilled with your current Nanny, you're making a mistake.  FWIW I'm a HM on my 6th AP.

If you can use a professional Nanny, can afford a professional Nanny and need the services provided by a professional Nanny - by all means find a new and better suited professional Nanny.  Lots of folks will disagree with me, but I would be pretty nervous leaving a young woman with three kids, all day.  Very few of these young ladies (even the IQ ones) have real experience that is translatable to taking full time care of an infant and 2 young kids.

This is not like taking on an employee. In many cases (and you won't know until it's too late) it's like paying your teenage sibling to live with you and babysit.  You may get really lucky and get someone right off the bat who is smart, energetic, follows direction, is tidy, love kids for real, has a great sense of humor, is calm...  but those APs are few and far between.

IF you do decide to try an AP, I do agree that your odds are better with the extraordinaire program.

Once your kids are all school age, self feeding, self toileting etc and you just need someone to provide homework help and make some mac and cheese and maybe carpool to soccer, APs are an affordable alternative to a professional Nanny that give you more flexibility in your hours (split schedule, summer days, school year weekends etc)  This is why we use APs now and not Nannys[/quote]

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