She has been and gone, and I thought she was quite nice, she interacted well with DD (although at first DD just burst into tears but she does that with everyone so I wasn't surprised!). she was only here for about 40mins/an hour and by the end she was playing on the floor with her and DD even smiled and waved goodbye to her! I thought she was great, but DF didn't really like her, although he won't tell me what it is he doesn't like
She used to work at a preschool and got her Cert III a couple of years ago, she has an adult daughter. I think she would be great. DF said he would prefer someone younger, but I don't see why...I would much prefer an older person who has had kids of their own and knows what they are doing, than someone who just has a piece of paper saying they can do it. He said but that's the problem, what if she does things differently? i don't think it matters, she's only going to be here for a few hours and will only need to put DD to bed, I don't see how that can be done very differently if I explain to her how I do it! Most of the time she goes straight to sleep anyway. Oh and he mentioned she has a lisp...WTF would that matter?!?
I hope he changes his mind because I thought she was very capable and seems to love kids. I've posted an ad on a facebook group for this area so will see if we get any reply to that..I hope we don't because I think this lady would be fine. Or am I not thinking about it enough and should be more wary of strangers?!
Did you ask Onyx's question? It's funny, I never would have thought to ask someone outright like that, but it's actually probably a really good idea.
Maybe talk to your DF a bit more about why he doesn't like her? Perhaps he's picked up on something? Or maybe he's just uncomfortable about leaving your DD.
It is generally a good idea to talk to more than one person, if only for a bit of perspective. You might think she's good, but then talk with someone else that seems perfect, kwim?
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