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[quote=Anonymous]If the nanny was texting for a long time or does not watch your child then yes, I think it's a reason to fire her. But she is not to blame for your child injuring himself. If he is allowed to go on the swing, then there's little one can do to stop a injury. Even when you are right there, accidents happen.

I have had a child fall from a swing while I was standing right in front of them and they weren't even swinging! The child tried to sit on the swing, somehow managed to slide backwards on it and instead of holding on, let go and fell backwards, almost doing a backflip and landed on her head. What the heck could I even do? Luckily the mom is not too crazy and was not angry or suspicious of me when I told her what happened. And luckily nothing serious happened, just a bump on the head and luckily the ground was soft rubber,  not concrete or anything like that. But can you imagine if it wasn't? And I was watching the kid like a hawk!

And I feel bad for the nanny, if she wasn't being neglectful that is. I'm sure any parent knows how horrible it feels to have your child get hurt, it's even more terrifying to have someone else's kid get hurt on your watch!

No one knows what happened, if the nanny was being neglectful or if the child was being careless. Maybe it was just an accident that would have happened even if the nanny was right next to the child, not taking her eyes off the child for even a second.

I do know that I would feel horrible if it happened on my watch, and if the mother went crazy on me, I would either quit or not allow the child on the swing or anything remotely dangerous because what else can you do?

As long as the nanny is allowed to take the child out of the home there's a bigger risk that an accident may happen. It sucks, but that's life. If one cannot accept that, then one must stay home with their kids so that they can be 100% sure that no one else was to blame for anything bad that may happen. School is probably out of the question too.

Like I said, if nanny is neglectful or cannot be trusted, that's a whole other story. But it puzzles me that some parents expect nannies and babysitters to do an even better job than they do and hold them to a much much higher standard. The only person who will act exactly how you want them to at all time, is you...if you are lucky.[/quote]

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