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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:25 here and I am a nanny/sitter.  If a kid you worked with suddenly had negative feelings about you coming, you wouldn't want to know?  I would WANT to work with the parents to find a solution.[/quote]

I would move on.  If the parent doesn't trust me and believes the lies of a child, I am better off with another family.

I am very sought after as a sitter - I do not need the third degree based on the fabrications of a child.  [/quote]

In my recommended dialogue, there is no mention of blame or of miss trust. There is simply a statement that the child's impression of her time with the sitter was not positive, as had been in the past, and a request that the sitter work with the family  to resolve whatever the issue was.

So what you are saying is that you would rather pass on a family who in anyway acknowledge that you might not be 100% perfect at all times?   Because I am also highly in demand both as a nanny and a sitter (by the definition that I turn down far more jobs that I applied for) and in my mind a big piece of that is that I care about the children that I work with (and would therefore want to know if they were not enjoying our time together)  and I care about my "brand,"  which means that I would be highly motivated to resolve any issue with the parents rather than blow them off and leave them with an unpleasant overall impression of me.   While I agree that if the parent brings up a conversation that indicates that they strongly believe that some sort of wrongdoing has occurred that my guard would be up as to whether they were open to being worked with in a reasonable manner, there is a lot of space for parents to question and even disagree with  A sitter without  there being a trust problem on the parents' part. [/quote]

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