What hours to get nanny?

[Anonymous]

DD usually wakes up between 6:30 and 7:30 and naps from 1-3:30. I need to work 8.5 hours per day. She’s 3, so I could give her an iPad if she wakes up and the nanny has left for the day (if I decide to have the nanny leave before she gets up from nap). I was thinking 8 or 9 to 4 for the nanny. They won’t have time to do much after nap. Is there a better spread?

[Anonymous]

Get up and start working at 5.30, done by 2. Nanny comes at 6.30, does daughter’s laundry and gets books and activities ready for the morning, has breakfast ready when your daughter wakes up. Nanny brings your daughter in just long enough to say good morning, feeds her breakfast, does outside time, an activity, a craft and a few books, then it’s lunch time at 12.30. Nanny puts your daughter down and is gone at 1. You’re done with work by 2, with plenty of time to prep dinner and get things done for the household before your daughter wakes up at 3.30.

You work 5.30-2. Nanny works 6.30-1.

[Anonymous]

Work it out with your new nanny. Some love working early while other love working later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get up and start working at 5.30, done by 2. Nanny comes at 6.30, does daughter’s laundry and gets books and activities ready for the morning, has breakfast ready when your daughter wakes up. Nanny brings your daughter in just long enough to say good morning, feeds her breakfast, does outside time, an activity, a craft and a few books, then it’s lunch time at 12.30. Nanny puts your daughter down and is gone at 1. You’re done with work by 2, with plenty of time to prep dinner and get things done for the household before your daughter wakes up at 3.30.

You work 5.30-2. Nanny works 6.30-1.

NP, but that sounds like an ideal schedule to me if you can get your nanny to agree to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work it out with your new nanny. Some love working early while other love working later.

Doesn’t matter if a specific nanny wants to work later. It would be hours that OP doesn’t need. She needs to look for a nanny who wants the hours she needs (lower hours for nanny, but there’s no reason to have a nanny there during nap right now if she’s not needed after nap). Yes, it’s highly likely that the nanny will also have another job later in the day, but the 1pm end for OP’s family makes it easier for the nanny to work two part-time positions. If she wants someone working solely for her, she should have the nanny work 6.30-2.30/3, and the later hours could be extra child-related tasks like cooking ahead, sorting/purging clothes, researching and writing themed weeks (preschool curriculum), etc. There’s no reason to shift start time, because this maximizes OP’s time while the child is awake.

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