what we do

Would you want to know if your nanny... Spends most of her day blabbing into a cell phone instead of talking to your child? Power shops for hours at a time, while your child sits virtually ignored and unstimulated in her stroller? Pushes, yanks or even smacks your child because they didn’t listen? Showers your child in love, affection and patience? Everyday, moms, dads, grandparents, nannies and concerned citizens see disturbing events like these. Until now, there was no way a good Samaritan could reliably track down the unsuspecting parents to notify them. HowsMyNanny.com is an easy to use service that enables anyone to communicate problems they witness to parents, keeping nannies on watch, and children safe.

© Debra P. Hershkowitz 2008

how it works

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A small "license plate" with our website and a unique identifying number is attached to your child's stroller. Should a concerned citizen want to report an “event” to the child’s parents, it’s simple. Just go to HowsMyNanny.com, put in that child’s unique license plate number, describe what you saw and the parent is notified via email. The good Samaritan could even choose to remain anonymous.

how we got started

HowsMyNanny.com was created by Jill Starishevsky, a nine-year veteran of a District Attorney’s Office in New York City who works in the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Bureau. She’s also the mother of two.

One day while Jill was eating lunch on a park bench, she noticed two young girls playing on the jungle gym. The girls ran over to a woman who was engrossed in a book. Jill realized that this woman was their nanny and the toddlers were essentially unsupervised. Jill observed the girls play for nearly an hour as the nanny continued to read. These girls could have easily run off into the busy Manhattan streets or wandered off at the hand of a stranger. Jill wanted to communicate to the girls’ parents about the substandard care their daughters were receiving. But how? Who were these girls?

As a working mother, Jill knew she would want to be notified if her nanny was being negligent.

As an Assistant District Attorney, Jill has seen too many cases of children who were hurt by their adult caregivers. While she does her best to bring these offenders to justice, as a prosecutor she knows it’s difficult to take action without parents being aware of any abuse.