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[quote=Anonymous]OP the questions that are useful for MBs to ask are often the ones that less than stellar nannies hope you don't ask (hence the what do you during nap time questions freak out they are having).

In addition to the nap time/cleaning question, I would make sure to ask questions with follow up questions to hear specific examples rather than the basic we go to the library, go to the park type answers. I also have a good B.S. meter so if you someone is simply being pretentious by characterizing coloring as fine motor and visual spatial activities they are probably annoying.

Its important to ask about things that are important for your jobs. Our jobs don't really run past when we need to leave because DH or I could always continue on a conference call in the car or go back on-line in the evening so we didn't need someone available to stay past 5:30 on short notice. If you do bring it up. We did need someone who would be on time in the morning because her being late would substantially affect our commute time with traffic patterns. We were specific that being 10 minutes late in the morning would not work for this job.

For references, you really need to push past the desire for former MB to not say anything negative about the nanny they are trying to help find a job. No one is perfect and what may have been a little thing to that boss may be a big thing for the next employer. Push hard on what are her weakest areas, if you could change one thing type questions. Do not hire anyone who can not produce real and recent strong references (again the nannies on this board will screech at this because they tend to get fired or quit on bad terms a lot and expect you to hire them anyway). [/quote]

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