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[quote=Anonymous]It's extremely difficult to screen for this sort of thing when hiring a nanny. For one thing, you're asking for someone who is open to committing 10+ years of their life to one job with one family. Nannydeb has sage advice, as always with regard to a good compensation package, annual raises, and never reducing pay even when you may need her less.

One of the things that struck me as very difficult is age. You can't hire anyone over 40 because someone who is healthy and active at 40 is not guaranteed to be able to keep up with tens and preteens over 50. You need someone experienced for young children, so 25 is the minimum age you'd want, but it's going to be hard to find someone to commit for so long at that age. Obviously you can't say this but I feel like you're going to need to find someone who doesn't want her own kids because otherwise in a couple years she'll be asking to leave to raise them or to bring her own kids to your house. And while finding someone who's already raised her own kids sounds ideal, once again you're left with someone well over 50 in ten years (or find someone who has school age kids and deal with excessive germ exposure, and nanny needing to be off for every snow day and teacher workday and bring her kid all summer).

I dunno, it's obviously possible but difficult. Personally I'd screen for someone between 32 and 36 who doesn't want her own kids. [/quote]

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