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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FTP don't have references, but [b]everyone else should have at least one or two people who have babysat, nannied or taught the child[/b].  That person can speak about whether payment was timely and accurate, whether the contract hours were upheld or parents were late 2+ times per week, how the parents treated you, what the child is like, etc.  I serve as a reference for one of my former DBs, and those are the things that get asked.  Most nannies don't bother to ask, and some families don't have nannies as references because they terminate when the cheap nanny care goes downhill.  I always ask to speak to one or two references that know both the parents and child, but aren't family.  For me, it's a red flag if the only people that know both well are family, because that means that I'll be working weekends, and possibly 24/7.  If the position is for weekends of 24 hour care, obviously that's different.

As a live-in nanny, I ask if a family is *willing* to have a background check run.  I expect the family to answer that it's fine if I want to run one, and if they won't consider it, it's a red flag for me.  However, I've only run the check twice, because usually that's just a test to me.  The vast majority of issues that may come up between a family and live-in nanny won't show up on a background check.[/quote]

This (bolded) is untrue - when I hired a nanny my daughter was three months old and nobody besides DH or I had ever been in charge of her. [/quote]

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