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

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Based on what we know about OP so far, I think this is a given. I also don’t think OP would risk getting her nanny sick for this reason, and one of the reasons she’s contemplating this is that she’s thought it through and sees it as extremely low risk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Based on what we know about OP so far, I think this is a given. I also don’t think OP would risk getting her nanny sick for this reason, and one of the reasons she’s contemplating this is that she’s thought it through and sees it as extremely low risk.

So OP is defining what’s low risk for the nanny?! If the kid is too high risk to go to school then he’s too high risk to be cared for by the nanny.

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My problem isn't even COVID.

It's that you gave your nanny the week OFF and the second you can't handle your kids anymore you want to cancel her time off. That's not OK.

[Anonymous]

These responses are insane to me. 1. OP didn't give the nanny the week off, she told her she shouldn't come to the house since there is a Covid positive child in the house. According to OP she is still helping out, just not coming to the house. 2. CDC guidance says the negative child, if fully vaccinated can go to school. Her child's school has different rules, but it doesn't mean that her child is positive by association. 3. There is no harm in asking the nanny, who is getting paid, if she will accompany the negative child outside while both are masks. It's a pretty low risk ask, and if she says no, she says no. I think you all who are making it out like OP is some crazy demanding person who has no respect for her nanny are out of line.

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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?!

It's not 10 days max. Whatever time frame the school uses (e.g. 5 days or 10 days) starts counting on the last day of exposure, so the kid needs to stay home until 10 days from their sibling's 10th day.

I would do this unless the nanny has a specific concern, such as living with someone elderly or immunocompromised, or being elderly or immunocompromised. We're super cautious at our house, but the difference between exposure levels between 5 year olds, one of whom is masking and the rest aren't, indoors, including a meal, and between 2 masked people one of whom can mask 100% (nanny being more mature than 5 year old), outdoors, for a time period that doesn't include a meal, is significant. Add to that this particular variant of the virus (I wouldn't have done this with pre-Omicron variants), vaccines, and improvements in knowledge of how to treat the virus? Things are different now. Not because "science has changed" but because both the virus has changed, and science has found solutions.

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Anonymous wrote:These responses are insane to me. 1. OP didn't give the nanny the week off, she told her she shouldn't come to the house since there is a Covid positive child in the house. According to OP she is still helping out, just not coming to the house. 2. CDC guidance says the negative child, if fully vaccinated can go to school. Her child's school has different rules, but it doesn't mean that her child is positive by association. 3. There is no harm in asking the nanny, who is getting paid, if she will accompany the negative child outside while both are masks. It's a pretty low risk ask, and if she says no, she says no. I think you all who are making it out like OP is some crazy demanding person who has no respect for her nanny are out of line.

+1. Walking to the park, playing outside with everyone masked? Absolutely! I would ask your nanny if she was comfortable with it and go ahead if so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These responses are insane to me. 1. OP didn't give the nanny the week off, she told her she shouldn't come to the house since there is a Covid positive child in the house. According to OP she is still helping out, just not coming to the house. 2. CDC guidance says the negative child, if fully vaccinated can go to school. Her child's school has different rules, but it doesn't mean that her child is positive by association. 3. There is no harm in asking the nanny, who is getting paid, if she will accompany the negative child outside while both are masks. It's a pretty low risk ask, and if she says no, she says no. I think you all who are making it out like OP is some crazy demanding person who has no respect for her nanny are out of line.

Her OP said she gave her the week off. Then she started changing her mind about how much time off she had and was running errands. I’m unclear if OP really gave her the week off or then decided to revoke the week. If she really did have the week off and then it was revoked, that’s really sucky.

To anyone saying that what is the harm with asking the nanny if she could do XY or Z then you haven’t really worked in a nanny or one on one relationship job with people. Even if you mind and don’t want to do it you still say yes because they are your boss and you want to please them.

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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. 🙄

1) I’m on the west coast 2) I’m with elementary kids at paid to be on call at home because unlike op, my employers are amazing. They would never ask me to come in when the kids have or were exposes to covid!!!

[Anonymous]

No!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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. 🙄

1) I’m on the west coast 2) I’m with elementary kids at paid to be on call at home because unlike op, my employers are amazing. They would never ask me to come in when the kids have or were exposes to covid!!!

This is a bit much. If our nanny never came in when the kids were exposed to Covid… there’s no point in having a nanny. Almost everyone is exposed to Covid frequently at this point. That’s what testing and masking and vaccines are for. But continuing exposures within the home should be treated differently in my opinion.