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[quote=Anonymous]I take my charge regularly to an indoor playground on days it's too cold or rainy to play outside. Three times we have been here, I've seen a certain nanny here. It's a bit of a long story, but I've been babysitting for a particular family for over a year now. They have a four year old and a little girl who is about 15, maybe 16 months old now. Every time I babysit for them, it is late in the evening, and most of the time, their younger daughter is already asleep. Their older daughter is in full time preschool, and they started working with a nanny for the younger daughter in September. The nanny they hired has a son the same age as their daughter. They are a well off family and have always paid me a generous rate (and they told me before they hired the nanny the rate they were offering for a nanny, which was also generous, but I was already employed full time with another family and couldn't take the job).

Anyway, so three times at the indoor playground, I've seen the nanny with the little girl I work with on evenings, and her son. This nanny spends about 30% of her time chatting with other moms, 50% of her time with her son, and 20% of her time with this girl. I've also seen things like, when the two kids are playing together, if the girl grabs something from her son she scolds her, makes her apologize and give the toy back. But I've seen her son grab from the girl and she conveniently never seems to notice. If the girl cries as a result she never places blame with her son but instead redirects the girl to a different toy. Also she's let this poor girl run around with a poopy diaper for quite a long time. Part of it may be that she just doesn't notice because she spends so little time with the girl, but I've also seen the girl following her around doggedly with a dirty diaper while she plays with her son, and is largely ignored. Just now even, she put the little girl into a car, and walked her around for a few minutes, which I thought was nice, but then she went over to play with her son, and left the girl in the car, which she struggled for several minutes to get out of by herself, began whimpering because she was stuck, and then I went over to help her myself.

Should I tell the mom of the little girl what I've seen? I feel like this is to be expected a little bit when you hire a nanny with her own child, but...this really bugs me to watch! (The little girl seems to recognize me but always just comes over and smiles at me and then moves on, I'm quite sure the nanny does not know that I know the family.)[/quote]

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