Moms how did you get comfortable with having a baby sitter / nanny drive around with your kid. I cannot seem to get comfortable with someone driving my children but I really need someone to pick them up from school/ daycare

You can do a background check to make sure they have a clean driving record. This is 100% normal

Background check, including driving check. Installed the car seats in her car and showed her how to use them. After a few weeks, I became fully comfortable.

I’m on the same wavelength - not even with grandparents! I just set boundaries and keep my OOO during daycare drop off / pickup and pick up the work hours before the kiddos wake up around 4-630ish

You have to vet them like you would any other service provider. But you trust them enough to care for your child but not to pick them up after school?

I'm more curious as to where you found a baby sitter/ nanny for school drop offs and pick ups? Most of the people I've spoken to are only looking for full time nanny jobs not part time.

I am not comfortable with that but I see parents doing it all the time. I wish I was more helpful

Our daycare does it. While I LOVE them as daycare providers, I was reluctant about their driving because they are older.

I have *ALWAYS* (and I mean that with hard emphasis) been very strict and straightforward with my kids about their safety in cars. So, for me, it meant teaching them how to properly buckle themselves in a high back booster once they were in cars driven by others. After all, the safest car seat is the one that is used properly. So there's no point in having them in a 5 point harness if they can't properly buckle themselves, and I worry about the ability of someone doing it the way I would expect. My children know to tell a driver they are not buckled yet and not to move, etc. Also, I have always bought car seats that I am comfortable with. I know they are all equally safe and pass the same standards to be on the road, but I've always posed it like would you rather be in a Geo Metro in an accident or a Cadillac?

Well after reading this thread I guess I just don’t care about my kids!

We’re lucky that our care options are all walking distance so I haven’t had to confront this but I get why you’re reluctant! Tbh, so many people are bad drivers and to me it’s not just trusting that the person is a good driver but also that they’re very situationally aware. Maybe it’s just because I live in an aggressive driving hellscape (love my city otherwise but the drivers are batshit).