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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for the feedback.  I'm going to ask her to not post pics online and let the rest be. It makes me uncomfortable to have her share info about my kids with her family and friends but I can accept that my privacy lines are outside the norm.  I think next time we look for a nanny I'll be more upfront about how I feel about these kinds of things -- this was our first foray into having a nanny and I didn't anticipate how I'd feel about our family being conversation for others.  Thanks again.[/quote]

I think it would help if you tried to think of her sharing not as being about your family, but as being about her job. She's probably not talking about the kind of house you live in, the cars you drive, what color your bathrobe is, etc. rather she's talking about what she does at work, and the children she loves to care for. It'd be pretty difficult to expect your nanny, or any future nannies to never speak of their job. That's usually one of the first questions people ask upon meeting you. I know there are people that can't talk about their jobs, but they can usually say what they do, and then its understandable. But it'd be very odd for a nanny to refuse to talk about her not so top secret job. [/quote]

OP again -- I don't expect her to be silent about her job.  It is just odd to me that the HEALTH details get shared.  Every time the baby has a fever, she calls her sister.  I'll come home to "my sister says the baby has a fever because of her shots".  Well, duh.  I have a pediatrician, this is my second baby, I know this stuff.  And she weighs the baby every day.  I also have a toddler and she tells her sister every time he has constipation.  I can't imagine these conversations are actually interesting for her sister and it really just rubs me the wrong way.  But like I said, I get that my privacy line is different than that of others.[/quote]

I'm the pp that has a website and written consent. When I first read your post you didn't mention in detail about the sister questioning, and after following your responses I do believe she is out of line in that aspect. It's probably coming from concern and love but it shows a lack of professional boundaries. I would ask her to not seek out medical advice from anyone other then you and your pediatrician. Tell her that she may log any abnormal behavior and you will seek appropriate measures. That while you value her concern, your child's health and medical information is not her concern besides logging what she witnesses.  She sound very young and almost like a  "new mother". How old is she and how much experience does she have with young ones?[/quote]

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