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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny is frequently on the phone during day with charge. On speakerphone while "playing" with my child or doing other household tasks. Have asked her a couple times to limit calls to emergencies or let us know if there's an emergency which warrants a need for a call, and also to only be on phone calls (if needed) when child is napping.

Nanny is on phone and then hangs up and starts interacting with child once we come home.

Really like Nanny otherwise - she genuinely cares about child and child loves her.

But, is the phone thing (and kind of lying about being on the phone when confronted) cause for dismissal? It breaks my heart to think that my child would miss her otherwise loving Nanny. Not to mention the headache of finding another Nanny, and trusting a new one too![/quote]

YES.  It's been my experience, sadly, that where there's smoke, there's fire.  If nanny is willing to lie (or bend the truth) to you about one thing, she's willing to do so about other things.  Having said that... how do you know that the nanny is on the phone throughout the day?  Have you seen it on the nanny cam on a consistent basis?  Or are you basing this on just a couple incidents?  If you have verified through regular observation that nanny is on the phone a lot, then I would sit down with her and give her a black and white rule.  Something like "10 minutes maximum while child is awake and ONLY for emergency."  Tell her if she breaks your rule, she is jeopardizing her job.  If that still doesn't do the trick, I would let her go, honestly, because if she's willing to disrespect you and your reasonable rules in one way, what I said before about smoke & fire...[/quote]

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