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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happened today: I text my nanny friend on my way to work and suggest we go to the park today. I don't hear back from her until late morning when she tells me they are at the playground right now but don't plan to stay if it gets too hot. After my charge wakes up, I feed, change, and throw laundry in. Of course now, my friend has left the park. Once we finally get outside, I hear from another friend that she is at the park with her three charges. We rush to make it before I miss another opportunity for a play date. The kids start running around and before long the other nanny's charge is in tears because someone attempted to touch his favorite toy. A full melt down ensues. They leave the park. I stay and my charge continues to play with other kids, I don't know any of them.

What exactly was I supposed to ask permission for? The potential play date that was never confirmed? The impromptu play date that lasted 20 minutes? For DC to play with the other kids at the park? How much of your time do you want me to take up at the end of the day to go over this minutia? I know a bunch of nannies in the area, do you want a full run down of every nanny in the neighborhood just in case we should meet them at the park?[/quote]

Are you also the poster from 17:44?   It really seems like you are missing the point here.  The issue is disclosure not permission for every tiny little thing.  And FWIW, my nanny does tell me about the other nannies and other kids she and DC meet up with at the park, library, etc. I don't mind if she coordinates with them without asking for permission because when she meets a new nanny in the area, she TELLS me who the nanny is, the kids are, etc.  And I can see the play dates she makes are with age appropriate children because on the weekends at the park, the kids find each other, and the other parents will come over and introduce themselves and say they have heard about our DC from their nanny.  It's about communicating!

And all of this is STILL different from OP's actual question about a nanny planning an activity somewhere the kids would not ordinarily go to meet up with their friends so that she can meet up with her friends - who the OP knows nothing about, is unlikely to run into in the neighborhood, whose kids may or may not be the same age as OP's.[/quote]

If I am going to the same park as another nanny then it does not matter how old our charges are. I would not deviate from my normal routine to meet up with a friend. However, if we are all going to be playing in the same park anyway I would not feel the need to tell MB. I would not call it a play though. [/quote]

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