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[quote=Anonymous]Feeling really frustrated and sad... my nanny of 5 years just told us she is planning to move to be closer to her family at the end of August. She started with my now 5 year old when she was just 3 months old, and we just had a second baby 3 months ago. DH and I had already discussed that we wanted her to stay on for another 5+ years since she has been so amazing for our family. We discussed her raise going from one child to two and she seemed very happy. She told us just a month ago that she absolutely wants to stay with us long term and loves the kids so much.

Fast forward to this morning when she tells me she has decided to leave. She has lived here for 25 years and always talked about how she never wanted to leave and would never go back to her home country, so I really don’t get it. Her kids don’t live there, just her brothers and sisters.

Other than being blindsided, the timing could not be worse since we already gave her the last 3 weeks in August off since we are going away. So basically she gave me 2 weeks’ notice to find a new nanny - I would honestly expect more from a long time employee like this who is practically part of the family. Even more complicated is the fact that I have been on maternity leave and scheduled to go back the day after Labor Day and there is no way I can extend any further since 4 months is the max you can take at my company. So not only do I have to find a new nanny ASAP, but I don’t even know how/when I could possibly train them since I have to return to work right away. And it’s going to be a huge transition for my older one especially who I have been spending a ton of time with while on leave, so I am not only going back to work but also her long time caregiver is leaving as she goes into kindergarten at a new school.

Part of me is pissed and just wants to let her go in two weeks (so I don’t have to pay for the 3 weeks off), but I feel so sad for my older child and was thinking maybe it’s best to try to see if she can stay on a couple more weeks to help with the start of school and training someone new.

What would you do here? Really torn.[/quote]

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