Anonymous wrote:If the OP decided to over pay to hire an "educated nanny who loves arts and crafts" instead of the market rate nanny who was honest about we'll go to the library, park, read and do play dough then the overpaid nanny needs to go. Personally, I wouldn't overpay to get someone who was into crafts but if I did and she turned out to be your normal nanny type then I would be annoyed too.

No idea if the OP is the same one from the dog thread but employers need to realize that nannies will lie and say anything to get a higher paying job. They want the money and know it will be a pain for you to replace them. If they have little supervision, you may never find out anyway that they lied about what they do. You really need to talk to references to see if the nanny candidate was doing the types of things that you want at a previous job, and start out with a probation period perspective and monitor what she is doing either with a nanny cam or drop in visits.

Anonymous wrote:Are you the OP of the santa letter thread too?

Thank God I work for sane people.

Anonymous wrote:I need to know what point of a nanny is, if she can't seem to follow a freaking simple request that revolves around her charge. Around Thanksgiving time, I had asked my nanny if she had any fun turkey plans with DD, said she no. So I suggested an idea to make a turkey hand arts and craft with my child and she agreed. I had asked her to do multiple ones as I wanted to pass them out at the holiday dinner to at least 8 people. I gave her plenty of notice so she didn't do all of them at once. I would asked her twice in that span of weeks how the project was coming along. She said it was good, but need to cut the turkey silhouette out and go from there. She had an idea of what turkey design she wanted to use. I thought great, she's getting things done. Long story short, the turkey crafts were never completed. For one reason or another, they had "too much to do" in three weeks, they never finished more then one turkey. Come Thanksgiving time, I had to go and do turkeys myself, luckily I printed them out and DH helped and our DD stuck feather on and it was done. But I'm very disappointed our nanny couldn't even do this craft and have fun with our DD, it almost became a chore to her, when it shouldn't be like that. I'm overall pissed off she couldn't even do her job! She clearly stated in her own words, she is creative and love to do crafts. My husband thinks we need to search for a new nanny, and I'm going to but also try one more activity to see if she doesn't, for Christmas. If not Ill let her go for not performing her job. What's the point of hiring a nanny who loves to do arts and crafts, or so she says if she can't even handle making a set of them with her charge, to give as a gift, that would be memorable for the family? I just don't see why we need to overpay someone who won't do their job right. It's really sad. My daughter loved doing this craft, not suren why the nanny couldn't make a few copies and give us the burden of having to do these ourselves a day before holidays, making us rush to get everything else done.

Anonymous wrote:I need to know what point of a nanny is, if she can't seem to follow a freaking simple request that revolves around her charge. Around Thanksgiving time, I had asked my nanny if she had any fun turkey plans with DD, said she no. So I suggested an idea to make a turkey hand arts and craft with my child and she agreed. I had asked her to do multiple ones as I wanted to pass them out at the holiday dinner to at least 8 people. I gave her plenty of notice so she didn't do all of them at once. I would asked her twice in that span of weeks how the project was coming along. She said it was good, but need to cut the turkey silhouette out and go from there. She had an idea of what turkey design she wanted to use. I thought great, she's getting things done. Long story short, the turkey crafts were never completed. For one reason or another, they had "too much to do" in three weeks, they never finished more then one turkey. Come Thanksgiving time, I had to go and do turkeys myself, luckily I printed them out and DH helped and our DD stuck feather on and it was done. But I'm very disappointed our nanny couldn't even do this craft and have fun with our DD, it almost became a chore to her, when it shouldn't be like that. I'm overall pissed off she couldn't even do her job! She clearly stated in her own words, she is creative and love to do crafts. My husband thinks we need to search for a new nanny, and I'm going to but also try one more activity to see if she doesn't, for Christmas. If not Ill let her go for not performing her job. What's the point of hiring a nanny who loves to do arts and crafts, or so she says if she can't even handle making a set of them with her charge, to give as a gift, that would be memorable for the family? I just don't see why we need to overpay someone who won't do their job right. It's really sad. My daughter loved doing this craft, not suren why the nanny couldn't make a few copies and give us the burden of having to do these ourselves a day before holidays, making us rush to get everything else done.