I think you have to stick with the original plan and let her inow that you will be interviewing and give her 2 weeks' notice. Just like she can't prioritize your feelings over making rent, you can't prioritize her over having adequate childcare. Them's the breaks.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop hiring young nannies and start using paragraphs when you post.

That's helpful, troll. Like I said, because of the bilingual requirement, our candidate pool ends up being all college students and young grads. I know and accept that I'm giving up some professionalism, continuity etc. in exchange for the language skill, I'm not complaining. I'm asking for advice on how and when to go about finding a replacement.

NP here. Learn to write in paragraphs. I couldn't read your post so I have no advice for you. I doubt the PP was a troll.

Anonymous wrote:Stop hiring young nannies and start using paragraphs when you post.

That's helpful, troll. Like I said, because of the bilingual requirement, our candidate pool ends up being all college students and young grads. I know and accept that I'm giving up some professionalism, continuity etc. in exchange for the language skill, I'm not complaining. I'm asking for advice on how and when to go about finding a replacement.

Stop hiring young nannies and start using paragraphs when you post.

We hired our current nanny at the beginning of the summer with the understanding that she would leave us in early fall. This worked for both sides; she had just graduated from college and wanted to work in her field starting this fall while my daughter will be starting preschool, resulting in a cut in hours. We agreed that she would stay with us through the end of September. We've talked a couple times recently and her job search is not going great; she doesn't think she will find a new job by October, maybe not even November or December. We could keep her on until she finds a new job, but this isn't great for either of us. We will have to cut her hours in half (from 25 to 10, maybe we can swing 15), which isn't enough to support herself. If she finds another job with more hours, she will quit on us with maybe 1-2 weeks' notice, if we're lucky. The ideal time for me to find her replacement is *now*; we need a caregiver fluent in a not-common second language and our very small candidate pool is college students who are just now returning to school and looking for part-time work. If we wait a month or two, I have very little hope of being able to find someone meeting our needs until January at best and will need to cobble together childcare until then. I like our nanny and would like to treat her well, but I also don't want to screw ourselves over in the process. She was good enough to tell me in advance that she had a job interview over the weekend with a family needing morning hours (she's with us in the afternoon). When I asked her how it went yesterday, she let slip that their scheduling needs might change so I asked if they would possibly need afternoons and she was evasive. I can totally see her quitting on us if the other job (or any other job) pays her better. She's nice, but she needs to pay her bills. Any advice? I've been burned in exactly this situation; I kept on a prior caregiver knowing she needed more hours, she then quit on us with not even 24 hours' notice. Our current nanny (as well as this prior caregiver) is young and I don't expect a high level of professionalism from her.