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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I totally know how you feel on multiple levels.  I hired a nanny who was always on the phone her first couple days on the job.  After I spoke with her about it, she got better and I stopped checking the nest cam, but later on, I could tell that she was still on her phone a lot.  A nanny who is new to a family and already ignoring her charge & surfing her phone constantly WILL. NOT. CHANGE.  You just have to accept this as a truth and fire her.

I had regrets after letting go of our first nanny, but that's because she was actually GOOD and I had to let her go because she had physical issues interfering with her job.  Your nanny is not good and you will not regret firing her.  You can find someone better.  There are a lot of nannies who do not engage their charge, but there are plenty others who do.  Do not assume because a caregiver is a college grad or older that they will not be on their phone a lot.  I live in an apartment building with a playroom and I see some nannies there constantly on the phone and barely engaging their charges.  It shocks me because the residents all know each other and the nannies don't try to hide what they're doing, but my guess is it's because they think it's okay.  These nannies are both young and older (40s & 50s), college grads, too.  Our caregiver is relatively young (30) and hardly on her phone.  She's a former preschool teacher, though, so she knows how to be unplugged.  I think a lot of these career nannies who are constantly staring at their phone have never been in a job where it was frowned upon.  [/quote]

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