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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Responding to multiple PPs.  She is a real nanny, although we are her first job as a nanny.  She has been with our family for three years though so she's not a newbie to being a nanny or to our family.  She's live-out.  I pay her very well with benefits, nanny has been happy with our family and has turned down offers for more pay to stay with us.  I'm not a difficult boss; she would have left well before now if I were.  I do have high standards, but I keep my thoughts mostly to myself and come here to vent occasionally, which is how we've lasted this long :-D

I'm asking her to take DD out for TWO hours at a time, which includes a 10 minute walk to the park.  Yes, they have plenty to do there for an hour and 40 minutes, it is a huge park with lots of paths to walk/hike/scooter/bike, plus they can have a picnic and eat a snack and read book.

These are strange times and an adjustment process for all of us, including the nanny so I have been flexible.  Like I said, if they are 20-30 minutes late some of the time, or even most of the time, I wouldn't care.  We've been sheltering in place for over a month now and did not have nanny for part of it so I get how difficult it is to maintain a strict schedule.  But I also am well aware of how the day goes awry if you DON'T attempt to maintain any routine at all.

I built in an hour of transition time between Zoom and outdoors during which she and nanny do an activity.  I tried to keep the schedule pretty easy, which is why it's frustrating that nanny can't, or rather won't, stick to it.  Also, I never said that I'm having such a hard time.  Without the extra help, I was doing okay (nanny didn't come for a couple weeks), [b]with the extra help, I cannot call life hard.  But that doesn't mean that I have to accept however nanny does her job and that she disregards my clear wishes.[/b][/quote]

[b]So basically, you’re just inventing problems because you don’t have any real ones[/b].  [/quote]

This comment is dumb. If you were hired as an executive assistant but decided to whip coffee 5 times a day and were never on time for your scheduled events and your job included managing some other junior assistants that were also never on time proxy, you think the Executive shoul have no reason to be mad because an assistant is a luxury and makes their lives easier?

Get lost. That is not the way the world works.

Nanny has a job that she is well compensated for. Do the job the way the employer wants or quit. The OP should not have to just deal because she recognizes that she is fortunate. That’s ridiculous.[/quote]

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