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[quote=Anonymous]We have a full-time nanny share. We like to think that we pay our nanny well and are pretty flexible. After work and on weekends, our nanny has regular jobs with past families. Our nanny is very good at taking care of our children and I feel like she genuinely cares about them. However, lately she has been asking us to leave early or been distracted at the end of the day, forgetting important items on the Fridays we switch homes (we do two weeks at each family's home). I think that it is because she has regular jobs an hour or two after we get off or back to back. We pay our nanny very well, give bonuses and recognize her work with special treats and gifts. Last Friday, I came to get my son and she was arranging her ride to the next job with a past family. She forgot many of my son's key items, including his medicine. I had to go back to the other family's home and get the items she forgot. She also asked us if she could have a half day next week to have an appointment.

We've allowed her to leave early for appointments or if we get home early, but we also have not had a problem saying no. She was used to another family letting her off early on Fridays. Even if I get out of work early Friday, I need that extra time to run errands, clean up around my house, go to the gym and sometimes go to happy hour in our neighborhood my husband.

We guarantee her at least $1000 a week, give a stipend for phone, insurance and metro and provide all paid federal holidays and two weeks of paid leave. Even when we go out of town or I travel out of town for work and need to take my son, we pay her her weekly rate. We are never late getting home from work and always allow her to leave on time.

How should I address this with our nanny? I want to be direct and say that when you are working with us, you need to be focused on our home and our children, not arranging rides and forgetting key items. I think that the nanny might take advantage of me and the other mom because we are pretty flexible employers. [/quote]

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