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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP!

I am a nanny and I just wanted to let you know that I also am a mother of three grown adult children so I can relate totally to your trust issues.

The families I currently have worked for in the past years have all been through referral. I started off from nanny websites such as sittercity and care.com, then people just started referring me to their friends who had young children and that is how I am finding work now.

I think families who find me via their own friends are more confident in me because they don't do their own independent background checks of me nor do they ask for add'l references. They tend to just go by what their friends tell them about me. They totally trust their friend's judgement and are satisfied that if I am good enough for their friend's child, then I must be for theirs as well!

I highly recommend you ask around when hiring a nanny. I think it would be too scary hiring a stranger off of a website. Keep in mind that websites like sittercity and care.com are FREE for nannies to post profiles which means that basically ANYONE with computer and internet access can say that they are a nanny and pose as a professional nanny so always be careful.

Good luck.[/quote]

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