To be furious with DD's nanny?

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So I am utterly fuming. I have just had a call from a friend of mine saying she had found my DD (She is 3 years old) wandering around at the park on her own with no adult in sight. After about 10 mins DD's nanny comes back with a coffee in her hand and when my friend questioned her she said she went to the cafe to get DD a drink as she was thirsty.

The coffee shop is the other side of the park and would have taken the nanny around 15 mins to walk there and back. Plenty of time for a child to get injured or get into some sort of danger. Hate to think what might have happened if my friend had not been there. The nanny has been great with DD up until this point and she has been a nanny for 15 years so I am genuinely shocked by this serious lack of judgement on her part. However, I don't think I can trust her now after this incident Is this grounds for dismissal or should I be giving her another chance?

If you don't have time to read the whole thread, then at least highlight and read the OPs comments, then you can pretty much work out whether your own comment is redundant or relevant.
Glad you and your daughter are OK, OP. Good luck with finding new childcare now. You did the right thing.

OMG ....I had au pairs and fired them for less. That is lethal if it's true. But think about it....Some element of it is true because your friend was with her for 10 minutes and nobody appeared. ...so even assume this was 5 mins it is still a very dangerous thing to do and your child was in major danger. I would interrogate your friend and get the facts according to her , straight, then the nanny and to be honest I think your trust would be gone so you will probably have to let her go for peace of mind.

trafalgargirl there are page numbers at the top and bottom of every screen...

Its easy to highlight the OPs posts to.

Oh my god. My blood ran cold reading the original post!
I don't blame you at all for sacking her! She obviously has no business working with children! Gosh. Does she not read the news?!
One of my daughters friends mums has offered to take DD on the school run so I can save on childcare, I was seriously considering accepting, and paying her what I pay childcare, as she would get be find such her friend and I couldn't take advantage.....that all changed a few weeks ago, when she posted up on facebook that she managed to lose her 3 year old in our local town centres "crowds"- our town is like a ghost town. There aren't many shops open, definitely not many people!...
I just wouldn't be able to trust her to keep my child safe, or within eyesight.

OP ALREADY SACKED THE NANNY!

Read the bloody thread, 🙄

I can only imagine how you felt, she should thank herself lucky that you didnt report her to the police for child neglect. She would have been forced to produce her 'imaginary' friend then!
Poor LO looking around for the person who is supposed to be taking care of her. Im so sorry you and LO had to go through that. I understand why you find it difficult to trust anyone now, Is there a family member who can have LO just for a little while until you're ready to rehire.

The emphasis being on choices, ami - glad you seem happy with yours.

ami - After 12 pages and is that best comment you can come up with?

Is sack the nanny going to become the new cancel the cheque?!

I would never have left any of my children with a nanny anyway, the best thing to do is to look after them yourself, then you never have this sort of problem. Its about life choices

And as soon as feeding and clothing and housing yourself and your children becomes free, I'm sure many parents will make the 'life choice' never to leave their offspring with a nanny.

This is definitely one of the best No-One's RTFT Threads I've seen on here!

ami, I am a single mum so I have to go out to work to provide for my daughter! Not that it's any of your business anyway, everyone has different options to work or stay at home. I wish I had an option to stay at hom but it's just not possible for me

As well as replacing 'cancel the cheque' with 'sack the nanny', we could also replace 'sock puppeting' with 'doing an ami'. Non?

Don't...feed...the...goady...one...

You've made the right choice, OP.

What's sock puppeting? And what does mean? Sorry I am a bit clueless

I personally think it's really strange that your first thought was to go onto "Mumsnet" before actually finding out the particulars from the nanny. Is partaking in social media more important than sorting out a situation. I do find it hard to believe ANY adult in a responsible position involving a child would put either the child or her/his reputation at risk.

^^ goady as fuck