What Questions Do I Need to Ask the Nanny We Are Interviewing?

Does she plan on being on Facebook or other social networking sites while caring for your child?

Will she be on the phone or texting while in your home, allowing the children to be somewhat unsupervised?

Will she had visitors? Friends, Boyfriends, sisters, while at your home?

Has she taken any life saving classes? Does she know the Heimlich maneuver?

What would an old boss say about her? Was she dependable? Did she call in a lot?

Does she expect to have health insurance, paid for by you?

Ask for more than 1 reference.

Good luck!!!!
A prior nanny for 3 years.....

Don't forget to run a background check! You can never be too safe.

Emergency training (CPR, etc.)

I agree with CPR, discipline, references, hours she can and cannot work and her pay requested. Is she willing to travel if that is needed, what she will and will not do-laundry, dishes, meals, etc. Ages she's worked with and length of time with families, any commitments that may take her away from caring for the children.

does she need to get paid for holidays that you dont need her to work?

her thoughts on disipline!! what her idea of fun is. how she would handle a so called situation. references!!!!!!!

give her examples of situations and then ask how she would handle them.

These are great suggestions. If you are interviewing nannies in the future, you may want to go on babycenter.com. They have a sample interview form with some "standard" questions. I used it as a starting point, and really felt I knew a lot about my nanny before we hired her. The website also has a sample nanny contract, which was helpful.