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[quote=Anonymous][quote=nannydebsays][quote=Anonymous]Nannies can come up without whatever nonsense they want but bottom line is that is not a benefit to the employer.  Its a benefit to the nanny.

If an employer wants a price reductions, its cheaper to find a share with another family. You get equal care for the kids, pay less money, and don't need to deal with any of other the nanny bringing a child problems. [/quote]

Yes, except Nanny Share Family A doesn't EMPLOY Nanny Share Family B. They are absolute equals, which often means lots of polite fights about whose child gets priority. If Nanny Share Family A can afford $13/hour instead of $10/hour, why not bring in a nanny and child combo and actually BE the boss of the situation?

Here's an example:

2 Family Share, 2 infants:

Mom A "We have decided now that our baby needs to be home for all naps. We don't want nanny doing any outings at all."
Mom B "Oh. Well, that's a little more, um, inflexible than we would like to be. Can we plan to have nanny do an outing every Tuesday and Thursday?"
Mom A "No, that won't work for us. We feel really strongly about this. You should do it too. Oh wait, you HAVE TO do it too!"

Single employer with an infant and nanny who brings infant to work with her:

Mom: "We have decided that we want our baby home for all naps. We don't want you to do any outings anymore."
Nanny: "I think there is some benefit to going out twice a week. Can we re-visit the issue in a month and see how you feel?"
Mom: "I am ok with that."

So, which situation will be more likely to last?[/quote]
Why is it that in your share example one family feels entitled to order the other one around? I've been in a share and that never happened to us.  Share parents tend to discuss these things ahead of time before entering into a childcare relationship.

You should have picked a better example, too, since essentially most moms would want their babies to go out.  A better example would have been with classes and activities.  In a share, parents would agree amongst themselves that Child A and Child B will take music, dance, swimming or whatever class on a certain time and day.  A family with a nanny who brings her own child and works with the employer's schedule as a priority may simply inform a nanny that their child will take a class on a certain time and day, and if the nanny doesn't want to enroll her child in the same activity, well, too bad, he has to sit it out anyway.  In practice, I don't think this would work either, because nanny shares tend to serve age brackets where kids take the most basic activities imaginable (story times, public parks etc.) By the time each child begins to specialize in some activities but not others, they would have typically age out of nanny shares anyway. [/quote]

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