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[quote=Anonymous]I'm apologizing ahead of time because this may be a little long.  My children's nanny has been with us since the summer but I have been on maternity leave the entire time she has worked for us.  When we hired her it was part-time with the understanding that her hours were going to increase once I went back to work in March.  By increase I mean the number of days stay the same (3) but the hours she works on the days I'm working (2) would increase from 6 hours to 9 hours.  She will still work 6 hours on the day I don't work.  I was very clear about this when I hired her and she was ok with that.  She has 2 school age children herself and I think she is starting to have second thoughts about working the longer days.  Again, I was concerned this would be an issue when I hired her but she assured me it would be fine since she lives with her mother who takes care of her children.  I'm going back to work in a week and we've been going over the new schedule.  She asked me the other day if it would be ok if her mother (who I have never met) works one of the days instead of her.  My 2 older children have met her before when they have gone to her house but as I said, I've never met her.  I know she worked for many years as a nanny for 1 family in the past but I don't personally know anything about her.  As far as I know she has only ever taken care of 2 children at a time before and I have 3 (3 and under) so I'm concerned about her ability to handle all 3.  The current nanny (the daughter) takes them to classes and outings but I'm worried her mother would have a hard time with 3.  I addressed this with the nanny and she is convinced her mother will be fine.  Obviously I would have to meet her first but I still have concerns.  At the same time though I'm afraid if I say no the nanny will get tired of working long hours and being away from her children and would quit.  I know we could easily find another nanny but she's great and my children love her and I don't relish the idea of starting over.  What would you do in this situation?  She wants to start next week when I go back to work but I'm going to ask her to wait at least another week so she's not starting on the same day I'm starting work.[/quote]

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