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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what advice would you give to parents who are home with their nannies now?  We work from our office about 50% of the time right now and the rest, we are home. We pay our nanny full time regardless, but the days we are home she works about 5 hours unless we have something going on.  We mostly just try to give her space, but I really love her and want to keep her for a long time!

And thank you for this thread and for ignoring all the unsolicited advice about your life choices.  [/quote]

First, try to be mindful that your home is her work space and try to pick up after yourselves as you go along.  If you are home on a weekend, you have the freedom to leave things around and deal with the mess later but try to keep it tidy during her workday.

Second, COMMUNICATION!  Ask her how it is going, check in often and ask if there are resources she needs (such as school books and outdoor toys I ordered to replace their usual school and indoor place spaces respectively),, boundaries she needs you to maintain (such as my employers were asked not  to hang out when we are doing “school” because it is impossible to get the kids to focus), Or just anything you might not have thought of.

Third and finally, heartfelt appreciation goes a long long way.  So much of the work nannies do is mostly unseen.[/quote]

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