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[quote=Anonymous]We just hired a new nanny, who has been with us for 5 weeks now, and while she is very loving with our 2.5 year old, I have gradually observed the following things:

- She is quiet permissive with our son, and appears not to be able to be authoritative over him over small things such as leaving the house on time to get to the playground (when the toddler wants instead to stay in the house), putting a sweater on him when it gets cold (you know how toddlers refuse to wear jackets).  Nanny also once complains to me that son hits her (our toddler rarely does that but he only does it and is not an overly bratty child)-- I said that she has my permission to discipline him (i.e. a few minutes time out from play) but she seems helpless, even though she raised 3 adult children herself.

-She likes to clean the play area and usually her "activity" with the toddler is "cleaning".  The other activity she does is reading the books that my toddler wants her to read.  Other than that, there's not much going on.  So a full time usually consists of:  breakfast, cleaning after breakfast, playground, lunch, nap (she lets him nap for a long time, while she naps), and then reading a few books, clean, end of the day.  What bothers me is that even though the day ends at 6pm, when I come down at 5pm, all toys are already put away and not much is going on, as if she is ready to leave.

Am I asking too much a nanny to know 1) how to be authoritative over a rebellious (but not too rebellious toddler), and 2) be more creative with daily activities?

In terms of activities with the toddler, in my fantasy I hope for a nanny who would independently come up with fun and creative activities with the toddler, for example, would take inspiration from those instagram channels of fun activities to keep toddlers busy.  But I don't suppose that one can just tell a nanny, "Can you be more creative?"  Rather, it would be incumbent upon me to give clear guidance on precise activities.  But I am a full time working mom.

Am I asking for too much?  How can we inspire this nanny to do more?[/quote]

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