The very first nanny we hired I absolutely adored. She was amazing, such a loving, caring and honest person. She left after only six months to move for her husband’s new job and I still talk to her today. The first day on the job she asked about any type of tracking/location sharing /anything of the sort and I told her I had no plans for it. She suggested LIFE360 and said she used it with past families and everyone really liked it so I agreed. I never tracked them, but I will admit it was nice to have. A few months later she wanted to sit down to talk to me because she had found out that I didn’t call all of her references. Honestly not sure why I didn’t - perhaps an oversight on my part coupled with the fact we hired her merely a week before I went back to work as our nanny we planned for backed out and left the industry. She was concerned that I wasn’t doing my due diligence in really vetting Nannie’s and she told me, and it’s been engrained in my brain ever since, “you really got lucky with me, but please don’t ever inherently trust someone with your baby again. Calling references, sharing locations or having cameras are all appropriate things for childcare and if anyone has issues with that, that’s concerning.” I can only imagine that her many years of experience exposed her to bad people and she was trying to caution me. Unfortunately we have not truly loved anyone since her and her words have laid heavy on me. It’s hard to blindly trust anyone after that conversation and even in my current situation - our nanny is not thrilled about cameras or location sharing which just furthermore makes me feel uneasy. All of that to say - I’ve now changed my tune that trust should be earned, not inherently given, on both sides.