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Looking for a nanny again; and I'm going to need to vent
Topic Started: Jan 7 2008, 08:32 PM (103 Views)
lara
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Kopi Luwak
For now, I'm panicking. I've got until the end of the month. My nanny's place is being sold and she can't afford to pay Toronto rents, so she's moving to the country. (She lived there free - the house belongs to one of her parents.)

Finding a part-time nanny for $10 an hour who is actually responsible and good at the job is difficult, I tell you. Difficult! :badmood:
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Eral
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Is $10 Canadian a lot of money? :unsure:
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lara
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No.
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You were lucky and found the other nanny: someone will turn up.
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lara
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Well, sounds like we might get our old nanny back for a bit. She and her husband are splitting and she needs work, although how exactly she'll swing it from where she's living, I'm not sure. It's a bit iffy - this is the woman who gave us notice and then was surprised when we arranged to have someone take her job by the day she said she was quitting - but at least it's something. My daughter loves her to bits and would like to have her back for even just a little while. As long as she can be reliable amid the turmoil.

I'm also going to tour a preschool with Katya, hopefully Wednesday morning. We were already looking at putting her in from 1-3:30 p.m., two days a week. They have space available, so if things go well, we might see if they can take her longer and/or more often when our nanny leaves. There's also the possibility a high school student could get to the preschool in time to pick her up at 3:30 - we have a couple of reasonably competent high school babysitters around here whom I would trust with my kid for 2.5 hours a day and who might be happy to make the extra cash a couple of days a week. My daughter loves the one we hire so we can go out every other month or so, and there's another who's doing a child care co-op program at one of the local high schools who is very good with kids.

Not bad on less than 12 hours, during which I worked 8.25 hours and commuted for about 2 hours, hm?
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Regullus
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Pretty competent, lara.:sweat: :gum: :grouphug:
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I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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I have a cousin in Wisconsin who lives cheap, loves children and has years of experience as a nanny. She's already living in a frozen hell, I'm sure Canada won't be much of a jump!
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