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[quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.  My perspective:

1) I do find 6mo a little boring.  I sometimes zone out on my phone for 2 minutes but not for 25% of the day, eapecially if you mean 25% of waking hours, more like literally 2 minutes when they are happily engaged.

2) I looooove babies and think every one of my charges is the cutest, smartest and best baby in the entire world when I am with them.  We have special routines for each part pf the day where we sing certain songs during morning wakeup, talk about X during diaper change, sing different songs during feeding, do certain types of activities during different parts of the day, recite poems as we get ready for nap, etc.  even if I am having an off day and go on autopilot, the routine has a ton of interaction built in and we have tons of planned activities that I’ve created that are laid out and ready to go, so I would hit a minimum of 50% interaction and stimulation even if I was working with a headache or something.

3) The biggest issue here though is that she isn’t interested in working with you to resolve your concerns.  Now it may be that she is a crappy nanny with an attitude problem or it may be that you are a micromanaging control-freak and she has developed this as a coping mechanism but either way this dynamic has become toxic.  Try to really look at your behavior and think about how many critical comments you make vs positive ones.  I advise parents to try for the same as they would in a marriage—5 positive interactions for every 1 negative one.  If you can’t meet that threshhold then you either aren’t a good fit for any nanny and should look at daycare or something else or you aren’t a good fit for THIS nanny and you should look for someone you feel genuinely positive about.[/quote]

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