Can anyone help me? (I'm new to talking on here but have been a passive participant for ages - I'm hoping to tap into all that wisdom out there!)
My 3 year old boy tells me consistently and earnestly when we are alone together that he doesn't like his nanny. She started with us about 6 months ago, after my previous nanny of over 2 years (whom my son had adored) returned to Australia with her husband. The new one seems a lovely girl and had fantastic references (I had been searching for 3 months and had interviewed about 20 others when I found her, and I was delighted to find her), and seems very good with him. He is perfectly happy to go to her in the mornings and seems to have an active, full, varied time with her.
I have tried to ask him what he doesn't like about her, but he just says that she isn't kind to him and she tells him to hurry up all the time. Although he can't express it, I think there's more to it than that, from the earnestness with which he talks about it. He is not a whinger generally and I am inclined to take him seriously, although of course I don't want to overreact. At first I thought it was simply attributable to him missing his old nanny, and the new one being a different type of personality, but we're 6 months on now and he's still saying that he doesn't like her.
I don't want to upset or offend her, and I don't want her to take it out on him for telling me, but it's really breaking my heart and I am going to have to discuss this with her.
Anyone been there? Any advice?
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3 yr old says he doesn't like his nanny - help!
phb · 14/01/2002 15:23
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