Sharli's Reviews

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Below are the reviews that Sharli has written.

A very warm, organised, reliable nanny!

Lauren looked after our now 9 year old son (James) for 2 and a bit years from late 2022, she is a wonderful nanny who we would recommend to anyone.

- Lauren is extremely reliable, which was really important to us as we were often going to work. In the whole time with us she was never late once with what was an early start (7.15).
- She was flexible around small changes to timings or the schedule, it always felt like she was working with us to help. As long as the ask was reasonable she would find a way to make it work.
- Lauren was really sensitive and thoughtful about James’ mood as well as all the practical stuff, and would let us know how his day had been, with sometimes a longer conversation about how he was doing more broadly. We both really valued this, particularly as we were parenting James across two homes.
- She listened to the way we wanted to parent James and adapted the same style. There was nothing radical here, but she was consistently respectful in how she spoke around James, was able to be authoritative when it was required (eg getting himself ready in the morning!) but always in a kind way, but could also tell the difference between “naughtiness” and acting up because it had been a long day etc.
- Above everything else, and for me the most important thing, Lauren is a really really kind and positive presence. She was like a ray of sunshine coming into the house each and we genuinely loved having her over. She is so easy to talk to, it felt like having a good friend over who was helping with James. She fit into the home environment seamlessly. Our James is a lovely boy (of course I am hopelessly biased!) but like all children he has his moment of “high spirits” and Lauren never had a cross word for him, she would maintain discipline if it was needed in a really calm and friendly way, she has the most lovely temperament around children and I completely trusted her not just to carry out all the tasks that needed doing but to treat James with respect and affection while doing it, which gave me such peace of mind.

We are very sad indeed that Lauren is leaving us, and whoever she next works for will be lucky to have her!

Alex A
Jan 2025