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[quote=Anonymous]Our 18 month old daughter has had a nanny since the beginning of the year.  She is just okay.  She is not proactive about taking DD to different activities or scheduling playdates.  If I remind her there is a story time that day or ask her to take DD to the library, she will do it that day, but that's it, she very rarely will take the initiative to go on her own.  I have tried to make clear (maybe I'm not??) that DD's activities are HER responsibility and that she should take DD to different places without me saying anything, but she simply won't.  What I have had to resort to is suggesting to her on a daily basis an activity for that day before I leave in the morning.  It kind of sucks but I do it because I feel like I have to.  So we've been managing so far tolerably with my daily suggestions EXCEPT for playdates.  She just will not schedule them, period.  We live in a condo complex full of young kids and their nannies and she is friendly with those nannies.  I have asked her to exchange #s with the nannies, she did so with one, and that's it, even though I've told her she needs to do so with other nannies and have even suggested which ones, i.e., the nannies of DD's friends.  I have also asked her to take DD to local playgrounds so she can meet other nannies and arrange playdates that way, but she hasn't so far.  It has been six months that I've been asking and she has not!  I am getting really sick of this.  I can only speculate why DD's nanny doesn't fulfill her duties, I think what it comes down to is she's not proactive in general, she doesn't take certain duties (namely activities & playdates) seriously, and she's perfectly happy to keep DD to herself 95% of the time.  She seems somewhat clueless in that sometimes, I will give her a very black and white instruction to be done ASAP and she will still mess it up.  I think she has her way of doing things and looking at things and it is hard for her to adapt to what an employer wants, she had a pretty limited job history before coming to us.

She does have her positive qualities, which is why I haven't fired her already.  But I am reaching my tipping point and thinking very seriously about replacing her.  I would like to give her one more opportunity to shore up and do better with these job duties, but I simply do not know how to get through to her.  Any suggestions on getting through to someone like this in this situation??[/quote]

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