Recommendations can be misleading because everyone is going to say they love their nanny (otherwise you have to admit to yourself you kept someone who sucked for a long time).

I hear people raving about their nannies all the time when I know that they suck.

We had a nanny for a good period and we didn't know how bad she was until she stopped showing up for work. Then people in our building started approaching us and telling us how she was always on her phone and not very attentive.

The truth is gut reaction and instinct is large part of it and even that can be misleading.

Our current situation works well for us because after the debacle of the first nanny we went real slow with the next one. One day a week, turned to two, turned to three, turned to fulltime.

The current lady is a saint and the difference is stark.

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