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[quote=Anonymous]For me the standard is:
Does the nanny that they want fail to match the nanny that I am to a dramatic degree?

I believe that if I am no the person you actually want, then you should keep looking for that person.

The differences might be a big difference all in one area, or a lot of small differences in a lot of areas.

So, for example, I would ideally be working with two or more kids, making $20 per hour, going on lots of outings, doing play-based learning, using positive discipline techniques, feeding the kids exclusively whole foods from scratch, doing only child-related housekeeping and having fairly predictable hours with only limited weekend hours.

I recently quit a job that was 2 kids, $17 per hour, only outings to one particular park in walking distance, flashcards and drills, inconsistent discipline, more proccessed foods than. I am comfortable with, parents' laundry included, and increasingly unpredictable hours.

Now you might say that I shouldn't have taken the job to begin with, but the reality is that most first time parents don't knkw what they want.  I took $17 per hour thinking I would get raises or bonuses as time went on.  Didn't happen.

They initially said they liked my history of going on fun outings wih kids, but once DC got to be a toddler, they decided they weren't comfortable with me driving the kids.

They didn't have any strong opinions on discipline or education until their kids were toddlers.

When I started with an infant, food was obviously not an issue.

Parent's laundry was a result of job creep (helped out a few times and it became expected).

My original hours were very predictable, but they kept asking for more and more flexibility.

We were close in all of these situations , but there were SO MANY differences between their ideal and my ideal that it was better for us both to look elsewhere.[/quote]

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