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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
$14- $15 an hour is ridiculously high for someone bringing a 5 month old along. You need to think of the liability..your car insurance and home insurance would not cover injury to her child in your car or property. The child is no longer covered as guest.

Is your house baby proofed? How do you deal with conflicts between naps and activities that your older need to be driven to during the day? Older kids can be outside or go to the pool when its hot while a 5 month old can not stay out for long in the heat. This is not a situation to walk into without being very aware of the downsides which are numerous.

This. I am generally not opposed to sharing nannies, but the age difference makes this arrangement suspect, and if the nanny is asking for $17/hr WITH her child, she's out of touch with reality. The needs of an infant are so different from a 7-year old that it will be extremely difficult to do both well.

You'll need a different car (your sedan may accommodate two elementary school kids, but for them plus an infant you'd need a large car). A 5-month old requires significant care, supervision and investment of time for feeding, napping and comforting. You can tell a 7-year old to wait a bit for his sandwich, but are you going to ask a wailing 5-month old to wait while the nanny tends to her charges? What if the boys want to go to the pool, is she going to get in with them or watch her baby at the side?

I don't doubt that this nanny is great if you say so, but the fact of the matter is she's trying to sell half a nanny at a full nanny rate. No matter how great the apartment is, renting it with a roommate is cheaper than renting it for yourself alone.[/quote]

These two posters are correctly. The ranting poster who thinks its a good idea is the minority here. Don't do it, OP.[/quote]

+1.  Very few MBs, if any, would be comfortable with this given the age difference between the kids.  Even fewer would pay anything close to what this nanny is asking.  $12 per hour would be a more reasonable rate for this situation, which is essentially a share.  However, I wouldn't consider it even at that rate due to the liability issues and inevitable interference with your kids' needs.  If you can afford to hire a nanny in the $16-17 range as opposed to the nanny share pay range, I'd suggest you keep looking and find someone who does not need to bring her child to work.  There are many great nannies out there.

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