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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a career nanny and unfortunately a lot of “nannies” who post on here are either trolls or bad nannies or both.

What you want is pretty easy to explain: you want an experienced nanny who is good with your child and is ALSO a self-starter with a solid work ethic.  IME, people either have it or they don’t in this arena.  When my current charges were that age, I was making all their purees during nap, planning sensory activities, vaccuuming their play area so they didn’t have to crawl around a dusty floor, washing bottles and prepping pump parts so Mb would have everything clean and ready and beside her bed overnight, Organizing their clothes as they went up a size, ordering more diapers/wipes/shampoo, the list goes on.

I would not try to train a passive person to be a self-starter.  It’s not going to work out.  Look for someone new and interview specifically with this in mind.  Look at people who have been with families even after the kids started preschool and took on a nanny/family assistant role.[/quote]

I am a nanny employer and this person has the right approach.  For a career nanny, what you pay for is someone who needs very little direction, and takes a self-starter attitude toward things that need to be done. [/quote]

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