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[quote=Anonymous]You've situated yourselves in quite a pickle, tbh.

Firstly, if you don't trust your nanny to continue providing excellent care to your children even after being corrected or given a formal warning, she's not a good nanny OR you aren't someone who is emotionally prepared to have a nanny. Nannies are employees who CAN be corrected, redirected, and managed - you just want to do it respectfully. Presumably you've had great and terrible bosses in your life? So just speak to her like your best boss would have spoken to you when your work wasn't up to par (i.e. not "threaten to fire her" but a "we need to issue a formal warning as you've now been late X number of times. if this happens again we will schedule a sit-down review of whether or not this is the right fit for you and for us.")

Secondly, if she's been with you for four years you should have been enforcing your needs and expectations at the first sign of slipping. If you're employing a new nanny after your move please remember this, as it's much easier to halt a downward spiral than to get someone to improve their quality of work after it has tanked.

Finally, you talk about having had crazy nannies or nannies with their own set of problems... but most people I know absolutely love their nannies. They interviewed some weird ones, or maybe had an unsuitable nanny for a few months when they were new employers, but then they figured out what they needed and how to look for that in interviews. Particularly if, as you say, you are paying above market rates you should have no trouble finding a true professional, so I have to wonder 1) how much you're really paying and 2) how you go about finding and selecting nannies. One or the other - or both - aren't working out as well as they could/should.[/quote]

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