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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a nanny who cares for our 7 month old baby for 4-6 hours a few days a week.  We pay her $15 hour.  If I am home when she is here she gets a 30 minute lunch break. She is very loving to our baby and reliable and we really appreciate that quality in her.  However during the times that we've been home when, we've noted that she spends a significant amount of time texting or surfing the web on her Ipad and Iphone, making personal phone calls, studying her school work, etc.

Our hope is that she would interact with our daughter:  read baby books, sing, talk to her, tummy or sitting time, teach vocabulary while watching nursery rhymes by stating what is flashed on the screen, etc.  I've asked her nicely to do these things.  But I've noticed that our nanny will do them for maybe 15 minutes and then return to doing her own thing again.  Ive give our nanny credit that she does keep her eye on our baby, but its often done by placing the baby in the play yard or jumperoo while she sits next to her and surfs the internet.  Our baby has become very easy to care and doesn't cry out of boredom or from a dirty diaper.  If the baby does get board in the play yard, I've seen our nanny just put baby einstein on her Ipad and set it down on the floor next to the baby to watch,  while our nanny texts on her phone.

Other times when I've asked our nanny to do things like read books, she has told me that "it is ridiculous to read baby books"....or "that its just as good if she reads her school work out loud."  Or when I've asked the nanny to practice sitting with our nanny she responded "that its not necessary because all babies will eventually sit without practice, they may not do it on time, but they will eventually."  The only chore we ask our nanny to do other than care for our daughter is to vacuum our small living room where she lays our baby on the floor...and she will do that. Often she will empty our dishwasher too without even being asked.  One day she even moped our kitchen floor.

But my guess is that our nanny may be spending about 75% of her time her (outside of lunch break) doing her own thing while just keeping an eye on her daughter.   She seems to get board with our baby.  When I've asked her to interact more, she got angry and said "it is ridiculous to expect her to interact with our baby the whole time she is here!"  She complained that our house is small, its too cold outside for walks and that we won't let her go on outings with our baby to the mall,  etc.  I emphasized I'm not asking her to interact the whole time, but out of say a 4-6 hour period, at least 3 hours of interaction seems reasonable to me (especially since we are paying $15/hr for one baby).  She disagrees.

I'm I expecting too much?[/quote]

When you are just paying $ 15 then that's what you get.[/quote]
I agree. Top notch care is hard to find and costs more.[/quote]

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