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[quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.

Ask your dealbreakers first, and make sure they're open-ended so that you get a sense of what each person thinks, not how well they try to fit their answers to your perspective.  Examples would be: What television shows would you consider appropriate for x age and how much would you allow per day?  This was asked by one MB, and I answered; just happened that we are both anti-screen time for kids under 2, but the way it was phrased, nannies didn't realize that was her opinion.  If Larlo and Larla did xyz, what would you do?  What would be different if they were younger?  Older?  If you hadn't seen what happened?  Discipline is always a tricky situation, because most nannies are familiar with a long list of methods, but we also are human, so we have certain styles that we naturally prefer.  Yes, you might have a nanny that can easily switch to your style, but it might be worth it to you to find someone who shares the philosophy rather than just implementing the strategy you want.

Allow the nanny to ask follow-up questions during your questions.  It's a whole lot easier to ask what a parent means by healthy and get an answer immediately after the parent says we don't eat unhealthy food than 20 minutes later when nanny finally gets a chance to ask questions.  To some parents, it means the child eats at least 2 or 3 veg/fruit a day, but to others it means everything is cooked from scratch, there aren't any refined grains, it's vegetarian or vegan, Paleo, etc.

Have clear ideas of what you want, and ask the nanny to tell you about herself, what her interests are both with kids and relevant interests outside work.  If someone doesn't interact much with kids outside of work, they're not a good candidate for a live-in family who may enjoy the nanny tagging along to the zoo on her day off.  If all of her interests outside work involve kids, maybe boundaries might be an issue.  Neither is a guarantee, but you get more of a sense of the whole person, not just what she wanted to tell you.

Prioritize what is most important to you.  It's not likely that you will find a nanny with the same philosophy you have for every single thing, so is the nanny who matches up with you for discipline and food a better fit, or is it the nanny who matches with regard to screen time and boundaries?[/quote]

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