Issues with tidyness in PT nanny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

So when you give snacks to two 2-year-olds, there's no mess? bull.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess. Can you share your techniques?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess. Can you share your techniques?

New pp. I fed them myself or gave them small bites. I never had a mess on floor. So many if you go out of your way to make your life hard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess. Can you share your techniques?

New pp. I fed them myself or gave them small bites. I never had a mess on floor. So many if you go out of your way to make your life hard.

The OP's babysitter is not as smart as you people are so she needs guidance to teach 2yo not make a mess and clean up after they eat

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess. Can you share your techniques?

New pp. I fed them myself or gave them small bites. I never had a mess on floor. So many if you go out of your way to make your life hard.

OP here. How did they learn to feed themselves? At what age did you let them try to use a spoon? I help them but my kids have their own spoons and forks and like to self-feed. I only give them a few bites at a time, but even a tablespoon of something like yogurt can splatter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess. Can you share your techniques?

New pp. I fed them myself or gave them small bites. I never had a mess on floor. So many if you go out of your way to make your life hard.

Nope, the quoted posted said that OP should teach her kids not to make a mess, not that the sitter should change her feeding technique. It's the idea that toddlers can be trained not to make a mess that people are calling bullshit. What you are doing is the equivalent of locking a dog outside and declaring they are housebroken because they haven't pissed on the rug. The kids haven't learned to be neat, you just blocked their access.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess. Can you share your techniques?

New pp. I fed them myself or gave them small bites. I never had a mess on floor. So many if you go out of your way to make your life hard.

OP here. How did they learn to feed themselves? At what age did you let them try to use a spoon? I help them but my kids have their own spoons and forks and like to self-feed. I only give them a few bites at a time, but even a tablespoon of something like yogurt can splatter.

Is there a reason that you are giving them things that splatter? Why aren't you teaching self-feeding with fairly clean foods first? I'm all for kids learning to feed themselves, even before 1, but it's age-appropriate. If they aren't capable of putting a spoon with soft peas in their mouth without having peas go anywhere, they don't have yogurt in a bowl (I'm a huge fan of making messy foods into drinks at that age).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your degree of cleanliness will never be equal to that of someone else. If you are that concerned with tydiness just hire a good cleaning service once a week. I am a sitter and pretty clean at my home. I wouldn't clean your walls and such if I am working for you. Just teach your kids to be less messy, shouldn't be the sitters responsibility or concern. You are with them majority of time.

I would live to teach my 1- and 2-yo kids to eat without making a mess. Can you share your techniques?

New pp. I fed them myself or gave them small bites. I never had a mess on floor. So many if you go out of your way to make your life hard.

Nope, the quoted posted said that OP should teach her kids not to make a mess, not that the sitter should change her feeding technique. It's the idea that toddlers can be trained not to make a mess that people are calling bullshit. What you are doing is the equivalent of locking a dog outside and declaring they are housebroken because they haven't pissed on the rug. The kids haven't learned to be neat, you just blocked their access.

Children can be taught to be neat... All you have to do is limit what they can spill, and they have to help clean up. Any child old enough to feed themselves cut up fruit is old enough to pick up dropped/thrown fruit when they are done eating, and it reinforces that food stays on the tray/counter. As they show more fine and gross motor control, they can have messier foods, but if they spill, they still have to help clean up.

[Anonymous]

Sitters also need down time. You shouldn't be assigning chores to a babysitter. Normally nannies would take care of the kids laundry, but not babysitters. On top of that, you want her to do housekeeping. If she's cleaning after herself and your children, then she's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sitters also need down time. You shouldn't be assigning chores to a babysitter. Normally nannies would take care of the kids laundry, but not babysitters. On top of that, you want her to do housekeeping. If she's cleaning after herself and your children, then she's fine.

Did you read the follow-up? The nanny is NOT cleaning up after the kids, but is leaving messes that occurred on her watch.

[Anonymous]

This makes no sense. Why would you schedule her only during nap time? Either hire a housekeeper to work during nap time or higher a nanny who works while the kids are awake.

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Anonymous wrote:If it's truly this limited list: sweep whole floor, pick up toys, fold laundry, then give it to her and explain what you want. If you want someone to look around and see what needs to be done, though, I do think your expectations are high for a very part time person. Your pay is fine, but not exceptional, and while you could totally expect this kind of work from a full time person to whom you are paying a living wage, you just aren't going to get that from someone part time.

Thanks. Makes sense. I think part of it is that I try to always schedule her during naptime, because I miss my kids when I don't spend the morning with them and because she can't drive them so they are trapped in the house. Sounds like I need to either come to terms with naptime being unused time or I need to schedule her for mornings