Anonymous wrote:Some of you are so damn bitter. Not every area in every state gives you the resources to find nanny jobs without an agency.

This comment has nothing to do with anything that's being discussed in this thread, even though it may very well be correct.

Some of you are so damn bitter. Not every area in every state gives you the resources to find nanny jobs without an agency.

Starting a nanny agency is a cash cow if you have any basic common sense. Thousands of dollars in your pocket for not much work, for every match you make.

Just to correct, you can search nannies in the directories without names. Just click on the state your interested in and then click search with the other fields blank, you will get a list of nanny members. Everything else I concur.

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Anonymous wrote:At one point, there was a nanny organization run by nannies years ago, but I believe it is now defunct.

It was so much more focused on actual childhood development, rather than the INA focus, which is agency profits, profits, and profits. And more profits. Kind of sickening what's happening. Maybe this time, enough nannies will stand up and say, "enough is enough, we taking back our organization". No more agency owners on the board.

The INA website is:
www.nanny.org
It mainly serves as a promotional tool for nanny agency owners. They don't permit individual nanny members to be listed, because parents looking for nannies, could easily bypass forking over the big bucks to the agency middlemen and women.

Do the agencies "allow" nannies to be members of their association? I don't think so. Why are agencies voting members of the ina? If they want to be members of the ina, they should not be allow to vote and control everything. There's an obvious conflict of interest for agencies to be controlling the "Internationl NANNY Association". This is a major problem. Have a look at the Nanny Agency website:
www.theapna.org

At one point, there was a nanny organization run by nannies years ago, but I believe it is now defunct.

Nannies should start advocating for themselves. As long as they keep being overrun by agency owners (most of whom have very different goals, eg. financial profits, and not much else, unfortunately), nannies will never be considered true professionals.

Why aren't nannies listed in INA's on-line membership directory? Sure, they can opt-out if they want, but really? No listing? You can do a search for a certain nanny only if you already know her name. How about doing the same thing for agencies? Oh yeah, can't do that, huh?
If nannies want to be listed, by name (with any contact info they want), according to state, they should clearly have that option, don't you think? You agency owners are a wild bunch of control freaks. You really have nothing, without hard working nannies making you rich. More and more nannies are getting tired of this nonsense.

Waste of time and money. Unless you want to go and sit around with a bunch of nannies who think they are the best and their shit doesn't stink. No thanks.

Truth be told.

I was an ina member 5 yrs ago and went to the conference. The nannies all sucked up to the controlling nanny agency owners. If it was really a nanny organization, there would be nanny leadership, but there isn't. It was all agency owners with a few token suck up nannies on the board. I'll happily rejoin as soon as there's some real nanny leadership. The nanny agencies already have their own separate organization (APNA?) and should butt out of the International NANNY Association. Someone please explain why agencies are running the show at a nanny conference. Again, they already have their own exclusive organization. Why are they controlling the ina? Isn't that a bit disingenuous, seeing that it's supposed to be a "nanny" organization, at least according to its name?

We are here at the INA conference. Any of ever been or decided to go this year?