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[quote=Anonymous]Well parents...since I got solid confirmation with the play date nanny that my nanny had the play date after 12:30 and not at 9:30, which is what my nanny told me to my face when my son and her were leaving the house that previous morning. We confronted our nanny asking where she was during 9:30-12:30 the previous morning and she admitted to just going to visit a "friend" who happened to be hired to clean a house who happened to be within the vicinity of our house and my nanny decided to help her "friend" clean.  However, I recalled my son telling me the night before that it was just him and his nanny at this house and no one else.  So although she admitted to cleaning a stranger's house to just help her imaginary "friend", she was still lying to us. She also admitted that the nanny she had a play date with had texted my nanny 7AM that morning informing her I was trying to find out what time their play date was. So I felt that since my nanny had fair warning something was up, she had plenty of time to concoct a story. We didn't confront her till the afternoon since I wanted to wait till my son was taking his nap. Because she completely LIED to us as to where she went the prior morning with my son, then admitted to doing something she shouldn't have been doing with our son, and continued to lie to us as she was telling her side of the story, all our TRUST for her went completely out the window, so she was FIRED!  She asked for a second chance, but since we no longer felt like we could trust her and have no idea how long this has been going on there was no second chance offered.  BTW, I reconfirmed with my son later on if there was another woman "friend" in the cleaning house and he said no.

This was not a very easy decision because she was part of our family for 6 years and helped raise my 7 and 4 yr old boys and we were looking forward to continuing this relationship with our new baby. I was extremely disappointed and heart broken she could do this to us and to our son.  My 7 yr old was devastated when he found out that we had to let her go.

Bottom line as a parent, we must do what is best for our children and trust our gut instinct. We must always expect that who ever cares for our children also has their best intentions at heart as well and never settle for any less. I was fortunate that whatever strange place this nanny brought our son to no harm came upon him, but you never know and I was not willing to take that chance with our son for her sake.

For you nannies, who think it is OK to bring our children to unfamiliar places and do additional jobs to earn more money, SHAME ON YOU!  Your job as a caregiver is to CARE FOR OUR CHILDREN by playing with them, bringing them to their activities, nurturing them, and caring for them - not to put our children on the sidelines to take care of your own business. We entrust in you our heart and souls. You are welcome to do additional jobs, but on your OWN time. If our former nanny needed to make more money, she had approached it all wrong - she could have asked us for more hours to make more money or she could have looked for another job with another family who could pay her more and let us know and we would have given her a stellar reference. We were also planning to give her a pay increase once she got full charge of our newborn. Due to her own bad decisions and actions, we can no longer offer such a good reference of her to another family.[/quote]

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