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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an MB and am completely stressing out about our nanny hiring process.  Long story short, we've had 2 nannies--the first was a great interview, had never worked as a nanny before (had done lots of babysitting and had great references from that), and was a flake who quit after 6 weeks.  The second nanny, we hired 3 years ago, and she turned in her notice a few weeks ago.  She has been (in my eyes) a wonderful nanny--she is caring, reliable, and has been incredibly flexible with us in terms of schedule changes.  In return, I think we've done well by her, too.  We are parting on good terms all around so this time I feel like we chose really well.

I've learned certain lessons from the last go-round and we are getting really strong candidates.  No one seems "perfect," nor have I had any gut feelings one way or the other (either "this is the one" or "this is absolutely NOT the one").  I also feel like I'm too easily swayed by someone who can say all kinds of right-sounding things in a 20 minute interview, so I don't know how much stock to put into that--our current nanny is pretty soft-spoken and isn't the type to sparkle in an interview, but she had great references and she's been wonderful.

Meanwhile, our kids are 3 years older than they were last time, and it takes them a while to warm up to someone new, so it's not like they're going to crawl on someone's lap soon after meeting them.  Everyone we've interviewed so far has references that glow--do I just go by that?  Any advice to help me sort this out?[/quote]

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