If your nanny wants to schedule a playdate with another nanny and baby, do you contact the other set of parents first to check in?
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I was a nanny for a long time and we did about fifty fifty with me setting up play dates vs the parents doing it. It was rare for me to set something up when the parents hadn't met the other family before but I know one time we made arrangements to do a play date at the park by their house and the mom popped by at the end on her way home from work to meet them which was a good compromise in my opinion.
Frequently other parents would drop their kids off at "our" house but they all knew me and on the rare occasion we hadn't met the mom did let them know I was going to be the one watching the kids.
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No.
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Nope. I make all the playdates arrangements for our playdates with my nanny/ parent group.
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Personally, I would be very uncomfortable with my kids going to a play date with people I've never met. I might be more ok if it was in a public place like a park. I feel that's my job not the nannys'.
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Nope. We realized that we had to trust our nanny's judgment, otherwise it wasn't gonna work!
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No, I trust her judgement and she does this once or twice a month.
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Nope. We have multiple playdates a week and the nannies handle that amongst themselves.
We moved to a new town in August - if my LO only played with people I knew, she'd have no friends to play with! The nannies in our area are a network of their own - they all know each other and how old the other's charges are. Because of that network, my daughter had 4-5 other kids her same age to play with ... Pretty awesome.
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@regberadaisy: exactly! If it was at a park, I may be ok with it. But I would not feel comfortable with DD going over to someone's house who I didn't know or having strangers come to our house.
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No, DS has lots of friends through our nanny that we've never met!
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@mrbee: This. Ours is friends with another girl who nannies and has done playdates there and here. She did ask me if it was OK beforehand, and I had no issue with it.
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