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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more receptive a nanny is to blindly follow your orders, the less likely she is to be confident with her own experience and knowledge. 
So which do you want?
(We don't get the same level of both.)[/quote]

I want her to be confident and proactive.  I want not to feel like I need to micromanage in order to get her to do anything.[/quote]

No. My nanny shows up a half hour before I leave too. DD and I are generally finishing breakfast then or beginning to get dressed. Nanny gets settled and immediately jumps in - whether it's cleaning up from making breakfast, encouraging DD to finish eating while I go get dressed, taking DD to get dressed while I clean up from breakfast, doing DD's hair while she finishes eating, pulling together snacks and diaper bag for the day, whatever. So your nanny is ridiculous to be so passive as to sit on the couch while older children are running around the house saying, "I can't find my purple barrette/I forgot I have to bring in a fetal pig today for our science experiment" and giving her CLUES as to what she can do to help. [/quote]

OP again.  This is one thing that drove me crazy.  In the beginning of her employment, I was very specific about what needed to be done.  After two months or so when she still wasn't doing anything without me directly asking, I would do things like say "next you need to eat breakfast!" to my kid from the kitchen (nanny sitting next to the kitchen on the couch) and hoping she would take the hint that now was when to step in and make breakfast.  She never did.  Or listen to my DD saying "I forgot to bring down socks!" or whatever and she just continues to sit there instead of even saying a basic acknowledgement that she had said anything "oops - have to wear socks!" or something like that.  We are running back and forth packing this, getting that, all the typical morning rush stuff and she's just SITTING there.  I'm trying to be cool about this and consider what *I* could change but I'm really wondering how much proactivity and independent thought can be taught.[/quote]

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