The problem here is that people don't even know what a nanny is. If any warm body right off the boat with no experience beyond family, can call herself a nanny, why can't a young person who has had solo charge of other children, also be an "experienced" nanny?

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Anonymous wrote:I would not hire someone who is 20 years old. I also would not hire someone with broken English. Our nanny speaks French and English, but both are flawless. If a prospective nanny told me she was 20 years old and had 10 years of experience I would mentally dismiss eight of those, and then not hire her because I would worry about what other truths would be spun.

Oh give me a break. Everyone makes things look better on a resume, it's about selling yourself so you get noticed. It doesn't make OP a liar!
She has already been advised not to use her high school years as work experience, move on.

No, that's lying. Saying you have more experience in a field than you do is flat out LYING on a resume. Which is grounds for firing in any corporation, btw.

Yes, it is too far of a reach for a resume. You don't have 10 years of experience at 20. Sorry. Anyone would wonder what else will she exaggerate. Coming from a career nanny who has over 20 years of actual nanny experience, that is somewhat insulting. I worked 10 years as an adult in real, full-charge nanny positions before I claimed to have 10 years of experience. That is despite the fact that I started babysitting at 9 years old and babysat a lot from 9 to 18.