Would you ask your nanny to do this while kid is sick with covid?

[Anonymous]

This is completely ok. You know that. I don't know why you posted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny again- How about you ask yourself if you’d be okay if your boss asked you to do the same. What is wrong with you?

Lol. Ok, nanny. Are you on DCUM while you are being paid to be watching kids? What is wrong with you? Have some respect for your job and employer. 🙄

[Anonymous]

No. Don’t put the nanny in this position. She might feel uncomfortable to do it, but feels she can’t say no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is completely ok. You know that. I don't know why you posted.

She posted to discover that clearly the majority of responders do not think it is okay!! That’s obvious!!

[Anonymous]

No. It’s highly possible your currently well child could become infected and spread it to the nanny. Then she will be upset with you/out sick/your schedule would be messed up even more. Don’t do it.

[Anonymous]

NP and I am super surprised by the responses on this. The nanny is being paid and has been in communication with the family and doing other work this week. She isn’t on vacation and it is not realistic for her to expect the entire week off for this. I think it is perfectly fine to ask this and think any nanny worth her apt would be fine with it.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm a nanny who's been on this site for 10+ years. There are lots of trolls here. Don't let it get to you. Considering the child is 5 and no driving required, just walking to the playground, I would do this. Now, ngl, if I was asked this a year ago, I would have said no but at this point, it is what it is. I have an awesome relationship with my employers and it seems to be the case with you and your nanny as well, so nothing wrong with asking. Hope your family recovers asap!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP and I am super surprised by the responses on this. The nanny is being paid and has been in communication with the family and doing other work this week. She isn’t on vacation and it is not realistic for her to expect the entire week off for this. I think it is perfectly fine to ask this and think any nanny worth her apt would be fine with it.

The nanny does not want to get Covid! She’s helping out where she can but asking her to be exposed is simply not right. Jesus, it’s ten days max! OP can’t keep her kids occupied for one week?!

[Anonymous]

So your child’s school so take him back because of exposure risk but you think it’s okay to ask your nanny to take the risk?

No, OP, it not okay to asked her to come and take him to the park.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP and I am super surprised by the responses on this. The nanny is being paid and has been in communication with the family and doing other work this week. She isn’t on vacation and it is not realistic for her to expect the entire week off for this. I think it is perfectly fine to ask this and think any nanny worth her apt would be fine with it.

The nanny does not want to get Covid! She’s helping out where she can but asking her to be exposed is simply not right. Jesus, it’s ten days max! OP can’t keep her kids occupied for one week?!

The kid doesn’t have Covid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP and I am super surprised by the responses on this. The nanny is being paid and has been in communication with the family and doing other work this week. She isn’t on vacation and it is not realistic for her to expect the entire week off for this. I think it is perfectly fine to ask this and think any nanny worth her apt would be fine with it.

The nanny does not want to get Covid! She’s helping out where she can but asking her to be exposed is simply not right. Jesus, it’s ten days max! OP can’t keep her kids occupied for one week?!

The kid doesn’t have Covid

Yet. The kid is living in the same house with his sibling with Covid which is why he can’t go back to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I'm a nanny who's been on this site for 10+ years. There are lots of trolls here. Don't let it get to you. Considering the child is 5 and no driving required, just walking to the playground, I would do this. Now, ngl, if I was asked this a year ago, I would have said no but at this point, it is what it is. I have an awesome relationship with my employers and it seems to be the case with you and your nanny as well, so nothing wrong with asking. Hope your family recovers asap!

+1 — I would have felt uncomfortable with this even during the Omicron surge, but I think it would be okzy now. And that’s not because the science changed, but my understanding of it did. Now I see that if we’re outside the whole time and wearing masks, and I’m vaccinated, my risk is incredibly low even if this child has Covid.

If I was immunocompromised my answer would be different, but I assume OP would know if her nanny had this issue.

I really don’t think there is harm in asking in this case. Maybe if it was a new nanny I’d worry about her saying yes just to please you, but it sounds like you have a good, respectful relationship and most experienced Nannie’s I know have zero problem saying no if their employer asked them to do something they think is unsafe. I personally don’t think this sounds unsafe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP and I am super surprised by the responses on this. The nanny is being paid and has been in communication with the family and doing other work this week. She isn’t on vacation and it is not realistic for her to expect the entire week off for this. I think it is perfectly fine to ask this and think any nanny worth her apt would be fine with it.

The nanny does not want to get Covid! She’s helping out where she can but asking her to be exposed is simply not right. Jesus, it’s ten days max! OP can’t keep her kids occupied for one week?!

The kid doesn’t have Covid

Yet. The kid is living in the same house with his sibling with Covid which is why he can’t go back to school.

They are isolated from each other. And before you say “we don’t know how well isolated”— that may be true, but the nanny probably does. She is much better able to evaluate whether it’s likely this child has spent much time with the sibling, whether the parents are requiring everyone to mask indoors, etc. Some people would be extremely cautious and others would not be, but their nanny would definitely know which one it was. We don’t.

I see no issue with asking snd if the nanny says no, totally respect it. But taking a masked child with no symptoms to an outdoor playground doesn’t sound like a big deal at all. I’d do this daily if I were this nanny, to give the parents a break and to make sure the child was getting exercise and outdoor time, which I’d worry she wasn’t getting enough of while in quarantine.

[Anonymous]

If your nanny ends up cat give covid from her exposure to your family, are you going to give her a couple of weeks of PTO to recuperate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So your child’s school so take him back because of exposure risk but you think it’s okay to ask your nanny to take the risk?

No, OP, it not okay to asked her to come and take him to the park.

If school was an hour or two outdoors and everyone wore K95s the entire time and never went inside, I would 100% argue that we could go away with close contact quarantines because that situation pretty much eliminates risk, especially for the vaccinated adults.