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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My guess is they want to use that Find Friends app which doesn't give them access to your phone in any way - it just shows them your location.  DH and I use it so that if one of us is running late, etc. and can't come to the phone (happens a lot when we get stuck in meetings etc.) the other can see where you are.  You can turn it on and off as well so you can just have it on during work hours.

If you haven't started yet and you are their first nanny, I can see a family wanting to just be able to see if you are home or at the park or wherever.  The reality is trust is earned - not handed over to some stranger on the first day with your child.  A background check and references only tell you so much - and with the number of threads on here with nannies saying things like "I take my charge to my house all the time and my MB doesn't know but she probably won't care" or "will the time I was arrested for hitting my daughter show up in a background check?" it's not crazy for new parents to be nervous before the relationship is formed.

All that said, you have to decide what you are comfortable with and they have to decide where their lines of comfort are as well, and if they don't overlap, it may just not be a good fit.  If you are not comfortable, you can say no, and see what they say.  I wouldn't ask my nanny to use an app like that, but then again, until we really got to know each other, she didn't take DC anywhere but the park down the street or to other activities I knew about and/or planned.  She now goes lots of places with DC now but she tells me in the mornings what they have planned and then texts me if those plans change, so I do always know where they are.  I wouldn't be comfortable with a nanny who viewed my need to know where they are as an invasion of her privacy rather than a legitimate concern about my child's whereabouts.[/quote]

Just to clarify, no one here has said the parents are crazy for wanting to know where OP and the children are. Live tracking an employee's movements is OTT, however, and if they can't summon enough trust to simply text her and ask what they're up to (vs. logging into an app and seeing where they are) these parents need to go with daycare rather than a nanny. If OP's refusal to do this is a deal breaker for them they will never be comfortable enough to be nanny employers.[/quote]

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