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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems to me that you're hiring the wrong sort of people.  You posted on the other thread that you would love to find a more mature nanny who will stay longer but that isn't what you've hired or what you seem to be responding to on this thread.

Why are you only looking for someone for a year?  We hired our nanny w/ the definite hope and plan that if it was a good fit for all of us she'd be with us for years - until we deal w/ preschool or elementary decisions.

So if you're going in looking for only a year, hiring former aupairs or current college students looking for a way to pay their way through school you get what you've gotten thus far.

But if you go into a search looking for someone who intends to make nannying their fulltime goal/career for at least the next several years (which could be possible for someone in their 20's though seems a LOT more likely w/ people 30's and up) you'll get a different sort of candidate.

If you consistently hire the same type of person then you will likely get the same result.   (Or there's something else at work that we can't discern from your message.) [/quote]

THIS! Hire someone a little older who seems to know what they want and I would also make it clear to a potential candidate that you are looking for someone for more than a couple years, just so they know you're business. Good luck![/quote]

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