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[quote=Anonymous]I had a similar dynamic with our nanny.  She is fantastic and I trust her completely with our kids.  She loves them like her own, which comes out in her attitude sometimes, and she has an inherent belief that no one else on the planet could take better care of them than her.  This also comes out in little comments sometimes.  And it's an issue.

So twice in her now 3+ year tenure with us I've had to have a very direct conversation.  The first time I was upset, and got visibly upset while talking to her - which actually helped I think.  I told her that I was so grateful that she was in our kids' lives and took such wonderful care of them, but that her comments like (and I quoted her directly) really upset me.  She got it right away, apologized profusely, and the comments stopped.

Until about a year later when a few little things about "why didn't you do this, why didn't you do that when she got scraped"etc... started creeping back in.  At that point I just got annoyed and said very directly to her that she needed to stop.  That was about a year ago and it hasn't happened since.

That's more info than you needed but basically I agree that you need to tell her directly (calmly and professionally of course) that you are an experienced mother and driver (and whatever else) and will ask for her advice if you need it.

I totally agree that you need to nip it in the bud right now, for everyone's sake.  It only gets harder to be direct as you get to know people better so start now.

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