Letting Go of a Nanny Family

I have recently become acquainted with the author of the blog:  Life In Pint-Sized Form: The daily ramblings of a Toronto nanny. She has a great blog about her life as a nanny in Toronto.  Recently she shared a post about what makes a nanny leave their family. It is a hard decision to decide that it is time for you to part ways with a nanny family, and she does a great job of sharing some reasons on when it might be time to let go of the family you are working for.

I’ve only been let go once in my entire nannying career. I was 22 and working full-time for a harried family with two adorable little girls. The little ones, ages 5 and 7, had their challenges, but we had a good routine going on. The issue was that their mother, a full-time bartender and owner of her own restaurant, didn’t feel like we had a good routine at all. She also felt that my discipline methods (which were to separate the girls when they fought, no matter if it was night or day, because they shared a room and had very little separate time away from each other) were unorthodox and I quote, “abusive”. Funny, I didn’t think that separating children so that they didn’t maul each other to death like young tigers was abusive, but your mileage may vary, I suppose.