Reply to Questioning nanny's judgement

Forum Index » Employer Issues

Reply to "Questioning nanny's judgement - am I overreacting?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]We have a nanny that started in jan. Our previous nanny (of 3 yrs) was absolutely amazingly perfect, but she had to move out of state for personal reasons. I am trying not to compare the 2 nannies, as I know there's a learning curve, but I'm beginning to question our new nanny's judgement.

For example, she was cooking sizzling stuff on the stove on a front burner w/ my 18 mo old who grabs everything running around. I told nanny to only ever use rear burners but came into the kitchen a few days later & same scenario. Then she regularly needs to drive from our house in NW to alexandria. I've driven w/ her to show the exact route (we live on rock creek, so rock creek to GW parkway). Well apparently she decided to go on SE/SW freeway to 295 to Wilson bridge. She admitted it when I asked why she was 1 hr late for appt (they were calling me), but before that, when she came home she told me it went well.

Finally, my just turned 4 yr old was home sick yesterday. My husband came home from a work trip mid afternoon & heard lots of running water. He found the sick one in his bathtub w/ the water running fast & the tub almost full. Now keep in mind the boy had a fever & the tub is a huge old, slippery cast iron tub that is so deep my ds can't climb in or out w/o help. The nanny was bathing my 18 mo old in her room, at the other end of the house. My husband got ds out of the tub, wrapped him in a towel & sat him in a chair while he went to his closet to get clothes. Ds was so tired w/ his fever that when my husband went back to ds, ds was sound asleep in the chair.

I feel nauseous thinking what if ds had fallen asleep in bath or slipped?  I asked nanny & she said she didn't want ds near his sister to get her sick. Ok but dd was about to take a long nap, so give ds a bath then. I am now really questioning her judgement. Am I overreacting?  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics