After having a wonderful nanny for a few years, I had to employ someone new a few months ago. She is quite young and not terribly experienced, but she seemed ok. I have had a few reservations about her from the start. She is pretty reliable but sometimes seems to lack of common sense...
Anyway, after that long introduction (sorry!)... Dd is six. Tonight when I was helping her get ready for bed after her bath, I noticed her hair was full of sand. I was pretty annoyed, as we had to go back to the bathroom to wash it. So I asked dd if she had been playing with sand in the park. She said that she and someone she had met in the playground had been played a game involving throwing sand balls... That's absolutely fine but I wish her nanny had told me. So I said to dd, "oh, did X know that you were playing that game?". Dd said she didn't think so. So I asked her what the nanny was doing while they were in the park. Dd told me she was sitting down the whole time and reading a book.
I am not sure what to think. Very happy for her to read a book when she takes dd to an after school activity and has to wait, etc. But at six I think some supervision in a very large and crowded playground is still required? When I am paying for it? Ok I think to flick through a magazine, but to be so absorbed in a book that she had no idea what dd was doing? Or am I losing the plot...