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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op I’ve never had a nanny but know all about my sisters experiences with hers. Ironically, the worst were childless nannies! Always late, “sick”, calling out, lazy with light housework and so on. Her best nanny (who is now a family friend) was mother to a 5 year old and also pregnant at one point. Insanely reliable, probably bc she had a kid and knew what it’s like. [/quote]

“Light housework”?  We all know what kind of nannies you employ. [/quote]

Picking up toys, cleaning up after kids meal prep/dishwasher are all related to the job, no? [/quote]

+1 Plenty of nannies do light housework.  In fact those are often the ones who don't have to find a new job every year because their job duties morph as their charges grow older.[/quote]
Nannies may do tasks related to their charge.[/quote]

Which is never called “light housework”.  And lots of nannies today specialize in infant/toddler care or have no interest in working for a family once the youngest starts school.

I think you have a really outdated idea of what parents want in a nanny today.  We want teachers not cleaners. [/quote]

I’m surprised you can’t understand that different nannies have different job duties, just as different types of doctors and teachers perform different duties based on their preferences and skilled.   All the people I know who have had long term nannies have had them do different types of duties as the kids change in age.  The nannies who I interviewed who turned their noses up at folding laundry were the nannies who had tons of turnover in their job history.  [/quote]

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