Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friends with very big careers so this because the nanny can handle sick days, snow days and any other emergency. Keeping the nanny on a salary is worth it to them. It is kind of like having someone on call always. They can also ask nanny to stay late for dinners and occasional overnights.

I don’t ask if they pay extra for evenings.

I’m a sahm now but I used to have a demanding job. Dh also has a demanding job. Dh has never took the hit for a snow day or sick day. If the school calls because DS has a fever, I would always pick up and miss work the next day. I am pretty resentful over this. Dh is a surgeon so he won’t cancel a full day of patients or surgeries because our kid has a fever. He is also unreliable in picking up the kids.

It is illegal to pay a nanny on salary. The IRS is very clear that nannies are non-exempt domestic workers who must be paid hourly and are entitled to overtime. There are some people with "big careers" who still illegally 1099 or pay under the table, but most do not. If the nanny is staying late, they are probably getting paid overtime.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We still have our nanny full time even though our kids are in elementary school. If we didn’t have Nanny our kids couldn’t do sports or piano lessons and would get stuck in aftercare. Also, nanny covers all sick days and school holidays as well as summer break. Our nanny was an elementary school teacher so she handles homework and tutoring too. Her hours shifted to noon to 6:30 plus a weekend date night. She now handles all the grocery shopping, ordering supplies, keeping kids schedules and payments for lessons, pays the weekly housekeeper, empties the dishwasher, prepares the kids lunches and bakes healthy snacks for them. She still does their laundry, linens and towels and cleans their rooms.

Every night, I come home to two kids whose homework is done (and in their backpacks) and piano practice out of the way.

An example of what nanny does for us: I freaked out on Friday night because I forgot my youngest had a close friend’s ice skating birthday party at 10AM the next day. Nanny said, “oh, I know - her gift is wrapped on the dining room table and Larla made her a beautiful birthday card. And her skates from last year were too small so [older kid’s] skates are cleaned and sharpened in the garage. I tucked her skating socks inside”.

Am I freaking lucky or what!!

I want your nanny. I want your life.

Same! Actually, I'd like the nanny to do my job, so I can do all of the parenting stuff!

Anonymous wrote:My friends with very big careers so this because the nanny can handle sick days, snow days and any other emergency. Keeping the nanny on a salary is worth it to them. It is kind of like having someone on call always. They can also ask nanny to stay late for dinners and occasional overnights.

I don’t ask if they pay extra for evenings.

I’m a sahm now but I used to have a demanding job. Dh also has a demanding job. Dh has never took the hit for a snow day or sick day. If the school calls because DS has a fever, I would always pick up and miss work the next day. I am pretty resentful over this. Dh is a surgeon so he won’t cancel a full day of patients or surgeries because our kid has a fever. He is also unreliable in picking up the kids.

Anonymous wrote:We still have our nanny full time even though our kids are in elementary school. If we didn’t have Nanny our kids couldn’t do sports or piano lessons and would get stuck in aftercare. Also, nanny covers all sick days and school holidays as well as summer break. Our nanny was an elementary school teacher so she handles homework and tutoring too. Her hours shifted to noon to 6:30 plus a weekend date night. She now handles all the grocery shopping, ordering supplies, keeping kids schedules and payments for lessons, pays the weekly housekeeper, empties the dishwasher, prepares the kids lunches and bakes healthy snacks for them. She still does their laundry, linens and towels and cleans their rooms.

Every night, I come home to two kids whose homework is done (and in their backpacks) and piano practice out of the way.

An example of what nanny does for us: I freaked out on Friday night because I forgot my youngest had a close friend’s ice skating birthday party at 10AM the next day. Nanny said, “oh, I know - her gift is wrapped on the dining room table and Larla made her a beautiful birthday card. And her skates from last year were too small so [older kid’s] skates are cleaned and sharpened in the garage. I tucked her skating socks inside”.

Am I freaking lucky or what!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We still have our nanny full time even though our kids are in elementary school. If we didn’t have Nanny our kids couldn’t do sports or piano lessons and would get stuck in aftercare. Also, nanny covers all sick days and school holidays as well as summer break. Our nanny was an elementary school teacher so she handles homework and tutoring too. Her hours shifted to noon to 6:30 plus a weekend date night. She now handles all the grocery shopping, ordering supplies, keeping kids schedules and payments for lessons, pays the weekly housekeeper, empties the dishwasher, prepares the kids lunches and bakes healthy snacks for them. She still does their laundry, linens and towels and cleans their rooms.

Every night, I come home to two kids whose homework is done (and in their backpacks) and piano practice out of the way.

An example of what nanny does for us: I freaked out on Friday night because I forgot my youngest had a close friend’s ice skating birthday party at 10AM the next day. Nanny said, “oh, I know - her gift is wrapped on the dining room table and Larla made her a beautiful birthday card. And her skates from last year were too small so [older kid’s] skates are cleaned and sharpened in the garage. I tucked her skating socks inside”.

Am I freaking lucky or what!!

I want your nanny. I want your life.

Anonymous wrote:We still have our nanny full time even though our kids are in elementary school. If we didn’t have Nanny our kids couldn’t do sports or piano lessons and would get stuck in aftercare. Also, nanny covers all sick days and school holidays as well as summer break. Our nanny was an elementary school teacher so she handles homework and tutoring too. Her hours shifted to noon to 6:30 plus a weekend date night. She now handles all the grocery shopping, ordering supplies, keeping kids schedules and payments for lessons, pays the weekly housekeeper, empties the dishwasher, prepares the kids lunches and bakes healthy snacks for them. She still does their laundry, linens and towels and cleans their rooms.

Every night, I come home to two kids whose homework is done (and in their backpacks) and piano practice out of the way.

An example of what nanny does for us: I freaked out on Friday night because I forgot my youngest had a close friend’s ice skating birthday party at 10AM the next day. Nanny said, “oh, I know - her gift is wrapped on the dining room table and Larla made her a beautiful birthday card. And her skates from last year were too small so [older kid’s] skates are cleaned and sharpened in the garage. I tucked her skating socks inside”.

Am I freaking lucky or what!!