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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you cannot bring yourself to address the phone issue directly, then there is not much you can do.

It was one thing when your son was too young to interact. Now it's sort of ridiculous that the person paid to pay attention to him won't do that.

At this point, redirection has not worked. If this is not the care you want for your son, I think you have to talk to her bluntly:

"Nanny, we are disturbed by the amount of time you spend on the phone. We hired someone to provided one-on-one interaction with our son. We've tried to subtly suggest activities that you can do with him, but you haven't been willing to pursue them regularly. At this point, we feel like your phone use means that you are not doing the job we hired you for. Here are our options going forward:

1. You can stop talking on the phone while with our son except for emergencies and nap time.
2. You can take a pay cut to minimum wage and continue talking on the phone whenever you like.

We will be installing cameras to monitor phone use as well."[/quote]

Op here- Thank you for this! Yes, we have already installed cameras so I can confirm that this is an all day thing. I wante d to ensure that his safety wasnt an issue.

We have cut her overtime over this as well. We were hoping that she would improve during her remaining time with us but that has not been the case.[/quote]

I should have said that these are the options if you want to keep her until January to be nice. Otherwise, only one option: stop using the phone, or it's time to part ways. [/quote]

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