your nanny, you're often leaving your children with someone you barely know. Well, Parents

TV's Anne Ebeling, shows us how Nanny Cams are helping parents keep a closer eye on their

kids' caretakers. >>More and more moms and dads are becoming wise on the wall, using

small cameras like these to check in on their nanny. And the father of three, James Talamini,

says they have good reason to be suspicious. >>My children are more important than anything

to me on this entire world. I wanna make sure that at any given moment that I know my kids

are safe. That the person that I am entrusting them with is doing the right thing, that they

are not abusing them physically, mentally. >>Before their son was born, James and his

wife hired a nanny to watch their two young daughters; Julia, seven and Isabella, then

two and a half. >>We thought it would be beneficial to hire a nanny. In the process of looking,

we actually found a nanny. She happened to be local and happen to be an acquaintance

of my wife's. We contacted her and she came over and she met the girls and everything

was perfect. >>But after the first couple of weeks, they began to notice changes in

Isabella. >>She was acting out, she wasn't sleeping, she was saying that she didn't want

this woman to come over and be with her, she didn't like her anymore, she was actually

starting to hit us and say " no ", and -- So, we noticed something was different about her

behavior but we couldn't quiet put our finger on it. >>So, James decided to set- up a hidden

camera in his home to check out what was going on while he and his wife were at work. >>She'd

see my oldest daughter off, on to the bus, which picks us up -- picks her up right in

front of our house, then she come back with my youngest daughter. What we noticed was

that she wasn't doing anything. She'd come back in and she'd sit on the couch. She wouldn't

play with her, she barely speak to her, she -- my youngest daughter have to wander the

house, she turned the TV on, just let her watch television, she falls asleep on the

couch. It was base -- It wasn't physical neglect but it was neglect. Of course, we weren't

happy about it. >>And when asked what she did with the girl all day? The nanny lied.

>>Oh, what did you do with Isabella today? Did you play? >>Oh yeah, we played, you know,

we both -- all sorts of activities, books and learning toys and -- Oh, did you play?

Oh, yeah, yeah, we did this, we did that. Meanwhile she was outright lying to us. She

wasn't doing any of these things. >>Catching a nanny up to no- good isn't all that uncommon

according to Rhyder McClure, president and founder of the New York Nanny Cam Company.

>>Everything from violent behavior towards the child to amusing, I mean, in a sense amusing,

offbeat sorts of things. We've also had moments of spectacular love is route, you know, where

the nanny will just pick the baby up and just love it to death, you know, I mean, just tender

wonderful moments. Everything, it catches everything, you know, and if you're getting

the love, that's great, you know, be really happy. But, you don't know what you're getting,

you're getting the love or, you know, or you're not and it's best to know. >>McClure's company

sets up nanny surveillance systems that can be viewed via the internet anywhere in the

world. >>So, it has audio and video and it's a wireless camera. It connects to the internet

over a wireless network and you get directly into the camera. There's no third party involved

in, this is you and your camera, so no one's spying on you. It allows you to set either

motion activated or continuous and you can tell what to turn on or, you know, to record

and not record within any period of, you know, week -- day and week. And if you saw something

really great, like, your child dressed up in some sort of costume, with a single click,

you can take a snap shot and that you can save into your system as a -- just a regular,

you know, JPEG file, put it into the Photoshop or whatever. Do whatever you want with it.

That's another nice feature. >>You can even check on your children using your iPhone.

>>You wanna see a picture of your house at the second, like -- So, what this allows you

to do is go in and take a snap shot. >>But while McClure acknowledges a parents' right

to install a hidden camera, he says it is better just to tell the nanny it's there.

>>It's very clear if you're telling the nanny that you got cameras -- you're not spying

on and that immediately puts some at ease. And the other thing about telling them they

have cameras is, even if you have a camera directly in front of a couch, and I've seen

this happen, its human nature just to forget about everything that it isn't really actively

threatening you. Our systems have put nannies in jail who did with what they did immediately

in front of the camera. >>The Talamini's picked up their camera at a local electronics store

for about $ 250. A fully installed network like this one starts at around $ 1200 but

the quality of the video is much greater and a professionally installed network is a lot

more secure. >>As for the Talamini's they ended up letting their nanny go. >>When we

confronted her on it, she basically denied everything. So, we had to let her go, we had

to fire her. And my daughter's behavior changed since. >>And from now on, they say they're

not taking any chances. >>For the small investment for what it cost me, a several hundred dollars,

it's a peace of mind that you just can't describe. >>And wireless home cameras have other uses

as well, from watching out for elderly relatives, to keeping an eye on your home while you're

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