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[quote=Anonymous]I love my nanny - she is awesome, engaged with my toddler, very energetic. She is around 35, educated, excellent references. My only issue is that when she arrives in the morning, I think I smell smoke on her clothes, mixed with perfume. She lives alone, so it's not secondhand smoke. I think she may smoke on the drive to my house. I don't smell it by the time I come home, so I don't think she smokes during the day (which is something that I wouldn't tolerate).

How should I deal with this? Studies indicate that thirdhand smoke (the scent on clothes or in the car that she drives my toddler around in) is harmful. I wouldn't fire her over it, but would ask her to change her clothes when she arrives at my house so that she's not wearing the smokey clothes while handling my child. I'm afraid to broach the topic with her though because it seems so unlikely that she's smoking - great references, really health conscious, perfect white teeth - and if she's not smoking then I've basically told her that I think she smells bad. But she showed up this morning smelling so, just... off, and I wasn't sure what to do. Note that I don't wear any perfumes myself - is it possible that some perfumes have a smokey under-note that I'm picking up? What do you think I should do about this?[/quote]

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