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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, nothing is better than a nanny/house manager.  Our former nanny moved into a house manager role when youngest started school.  She took care of all ordering, groceries, handled kids’ lessons and outside classes, did the kids laundry, prepped food for dinner and made the kids lunches, drove them everywhere - she end kept track of birthday parties and got the gifts and wrapped them!

The ease and relaxation this woman brought to our lives made us better parents.  Evenings were stress free (nanny helped the kids with homework!) and weekends were virtually free of errands so we could devote our full attention to the kids.

The previous poster is nuts.  Kids don’t derive any benefit from watching a mother go to Costco and rushing to get a birthday gift before a party.  [/quote]

+1000!

Now that our kids are in elementary, our nanny is also a house manager/my assistant.  She gets so much stuff done for us so that when we're at home, we're spending all our time just hanging out as a family.  We don't have to worry about errands, etc.  It is SO nice.  [/quote]

This does sound nice in some ways, although how are kids going to learn to be independent adults if they never see their parents do any errands or cleaning or cooking or laundry or anything? [/quote]

I'm the PP you're quoting.  We do still run some errands, like taking the kids to get new swimsuits and goggles before winter swim starts, etc.  But we don't have to go to the post office/UPS to return Amazon purchases, for example.  We have our nanny do the boring errands that just take time.  Yes, sometimes our kids do those with us, but mostly we don't.  I said we didn't have to worry about errands, by which I meant that we still run them, but we aren't trying to jam our weekends full of doing tasks like that because most of them have already been done.  Also, I never said we don't clean or cook.  We have a maid come once a week, so we otherwise have to keep the house clean the other six days, which means vacuuming up dog hair, cleaning the kitchen, making our beds, etc.  Additionally, we cook most meals at home, so I don't know why you'd think we don't do that?  As for laundry, our nanny doesn't do ours, only the kids, so we still do that on weekends.  But throwing in a load or two is easy enough to do - it just takes a lot more time when it's everyone's clothes from the whole week, so we're lucky we don't have to do that.  We don't treat our kids like they're the center of our universe - they know they're part of a bigger family, including our dogs, and that sometimes they have to do things they don't want to do because it just has to be done.  But we're all happier that we don't have to spend our weekend time doing errands.  [/quote]

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