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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll tell you one thing and probably get flamed, as much as I see nannies on here say to be 100% business professional and "they are employers not friends" but as a nanny the thing I love most about being a nanny and working with my favorite families is that they feel like friends. They ask me about my day, my life, things I'm up to. They tell me about their plans, cute stories about the kids I might have missed from the weekends, and are just generally pleasant and caring. [/quote]

This, 100%. The family I was with the longest (5+ years) treated me like family. They cared about me, as a person and not just as someone who was there to take care of their kids. They were concerned when I was sick, instead of annoyed I had to take a day off. They sent me flowers when I had surgery.They valued my opinion. We were a team. The mom and I actually became close friends and have continued our friendship even though I no longer work for them. They weren't able to offer the best benefits or vacation time, but they made up for it by the way they treated me.[/quote]

Exactly. I cringe every time I see one of those posts where people are up in arms because MB asked some innocent friendly question and all the responses are "ITS NONE OF HER BUSINESS" or "NEVER SHARE ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR PRIVATE LIFE"[/quote]

The flipside is the nannies who overshare way to much and MB and DB not only know she has a new boyfriend, but also the new bedroom tricks she's learned from him.[/quote]

I would like my nanny to share LESS about her personal life.  I don't tell my boss about my personal life beyond obvious pleasantries - my boss never knows when DH and I have had an argument and never knows when I'm in a bad mood.  I don't like feeling, at times, that my otherwise good nanny is another child.  I do wish she would pick up on the fact that I rarely ask her things about her personal life because I actually don't want to know. [b] I'm a good employer and respect my children's nanny and compensate her well but when I see her in the mornings and evenings, I want to hear ONLY about my children.[/b]  [/quote]

+ 1  My time for hand-off is limited.  It is not that I don't care about my son's nanny's personal life, but I don't want to take time away from hearing or telling his nanny about his day/weekend.  I feel very rude cutting her off when she starts in on what she did that weekend or last night but I want to tell her what my son did as it is information I feel she needs to know before I leave.  And honestly, when I come home, I ONLY want to hear about my son.  [/quote]

+ 1,000,000! Another MB here and I wish more nannies understood this.  [/quote]

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