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[quote=Anonymous]Share the major household rules like no shoes, if you all are vegetarian, keep doors locked, etc.

Share your general parenting philosophies like purees vs BLW, sleep training methods, discipline.

Share child's general eating and sleep schedule.

OK a list of outings that nanny can just go and doesn't have to ask. Some families say ask us if its further than 10 miles others say you can go to local playgrounds, libraries, classes, playdates and ask us about anything out of the ordinary.

Within those guidelines, your nanny should be given the autonomy to do her job. She will add to your child's life in ways that you never anticipated. Our nanny is a different ethnicity than us and my kids LOVE her healthy, flavorful dishes. She has taught them routines like a little song to stop when you get near the street and how to look both ways, a hand washing song, teeth brushing song, clean up song, a routine for putting on shoes and coat or taking them off and putting them away. Truly, if I was micromanaging I likely would have said "hang up their coats and put their shoes in the shoe bin", but how she has encouraged them to do it themselves, including my 19 month old who hangs her coat on a doorknob she can reach, is just way above what my expectations would have even been. They happily run on autopilot most of the time and we don't even have to ask, it's just routine now.

I learn way more from my nanny than I have had to show her. If we approach something differently, my kids adapt to whoever they are with. If it's something bigger, we discuss and collaborate.[/quote]

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