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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have remained a part of my former charge's lives by not charging them for visits and occasional babysitting!  I became a family friend when I stopped being an employee.  If you are waiting for a paying job to see your former charge, you are not a friend, OP.  [/quote]

Pretty much this.  If they are really so special I am not sure why you have been so formal about this relationship.  I flew up to NY to spend New Year’s with a former nanny  family. I am taking another set of former NKs to an event in DC next weekend.  Both on my own dime!

For families that really want a lot of actual babysitting, I work it out with parents that when I come over and handle the boring logistics of dinner, bath bedtime so that parents can go to an event it is a job and they pay my rate.  But I also, at regular intervals, ask to take the kids for stuff I want to do with them (go see a certain movie, museum exhibit, theme park, beach, hike, etc.).  If they matter to you, treat them like people you love instead of employers.[/quote]

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