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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]5 days of watching a toddler by oneself is HARD! You are really minimizing what the nanny has to do. I think you an expect the nanny meeting up with her family & friends and/or taking the child to her place, etc. because 5 straight days with just a toddler is crazy making. [/quote]

In fairness, lots of moms do it all the time with multiple kids. I WOHM full time and if I had a week, I would want to spend at least some significant part of it with my child and as a family since I don't see them as much as I'd like to. [/quote]

[b]Yeah but it's different when it's your own kid.[/b]  The nanny is going to have to be dealing with a child whose schedule and comfort is disrupted.

This just feels wrong to me.  First, you definitely need to pay the nanny for every single hour, 24 hours a day.  Doing otherwise is exploitative.  Would the nanny even want to do this?  Because no way would I gave agreed to this back when I was doing childcare.

But also leaving your kid like that for that long feels off.[/quote]

Yeah that's why the nanny is paid. It isn't her child. Everything is different when it is your own kid. I'd pay extra for that kind of task for sure. [/quote]

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