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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here.

This nanny ive described had the most experience of all the nannies we interviewed!  She had a masters degree in education with a concentration (ironically) in reading/language specialist.  She has 18 years experience teaching in public schools, private tutoring, and Sunday school and 10 years experience as a professional nanny!  She is a mother of one child.   She had several references - all were glowing! I suspect that perhaps her previous nanny family (who also had an infant) never witnessed the care she provides or had very low expectations.  What's alarming to me is that despite all her experience even safety can be questionable with her.  For example, her first day on the job she strapped our then 10 week old in a baby bjorn and co-slept with her in it for 3 hours while slumped over sideways on the couch.  Another example occurred a few days later when the nanny couldn't figure out how to secure the car seat in our Bob stroller.  So....since SHE wanted to go on a walk so bad, she instead swaddled our 10 week old and somehow jerryrig strapped her to the stroller seat meant for a toddler and off they went.  I'm bet my baby's head was flopping all around.   We addressed these events and she didnt do them again, but its concerning to me that they occurred in the first place.  It just seemed like our baby's well being was not her top priority.

It is actually very frustrating to me that we have had this bad experience with someone with such a strong résumé.  It makes me unsure about what to look for in the next nanny we hire .

Conversely,  our part-time nanny who has very little experience as a nanny and zero infant care experience is absolutely wonderful with our baby!  She is a mother of two.  Her day job is tech in a hospital. she has a high school degree and only charges $10 per hour.

I don't know why some posters question if my posts are real.   They are!  We hired these nannies off of care.com.[/quote]

I hope you realize that you are paying your high schooler $10 an hour to babysit on the side yet your nanny with a masters degree who does this as her full-time job only $15. Do you think that is fair? You expect her to go to school for 6 years and bring nearly a decade of experience and glowing references to you for only $5 an hour more than your high schooler? And then do a amazing job to boot with no mistakes and never using her phone and helping out around the house? Something has to give, and in your case it's her commitment and attention while on the job.[/quote]

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