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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can make this work. I think you’ll need to find a housekeeper who babysits, rather than a “nanny” which has an educational component associated with it. Your child is in preschool so he’s getting all of that anyway. I feel like it’s semantics but there are certain expectations associated with nanny versus babysitter. Just my .02[/quote]

OP here. Thanks. That's interesting. I'll try that approach. It probably makes sense I guess to bill it more as a housekeeper as the main element because the little one will be in kinder next year. I do just want to be sure we hire someone who is good with kids too though. I definitely don't need an educational component. She is well on track for kinder and we read to her all the time, sing together, rhyme, play board games etc. We just want someone who takes loving care of her / gives her attention when she's home. But ... if we look for a "housekeeper" per se is the expectation that they'll really clean the house when time is available? Because we are going to have a cleaning service too. We need someone to do basically the little things I do daily as a SAHM . .. load the breakfast dishes, put in laundry, fold and put away, straighten up a bit, do grocery runs. We were thinking we need a second employee or service for house cleaning so I don't know if using the term housekeeper will confuse this?[/quote]

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