Bringing Back Nanny - COVID Safety agreement

[Anonymous]

My grandmother was a housekeeper and she absolutely charged extra for laundry, for the 45 years she worked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i wouldn't have your nanny back. Her husband is out at different homes each day, her teen is probably hanging out with friends.

Our nanny is single and lives alone. Totally different.

You totally lucked out! How many people, much less nannies, live alone? It would be great to find one who did but I wouldn’t think you’d have much luck.

+1. Most nannies can’t afford to live alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re the family laundry: my first thought was "disgusting." Looks like others had the same reaction.

Laundry is the housekeeper's job, for an extra fee.

I don’t know about OP, but our kids are (or were pre COVID!) in school full day. As they started getting older, she shifted more into a housekeeper role during the school day and in exchange we kept her at FT (though pre pandemic we also had housecleaners come biweekly to do a deep clean). Is it “disgusting” that we’re not paying her to sit around our house all day waiting for the kids to come home? Or would it have been better if we fired her and hired someone who only wanted to work after school hours?

[Anonymous]

I would never do adult laundry. Ewww Gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again, other question. Our nanny has always cleaned our kids dishes and do our laundry. Is that something that we should be more cautious about moving forward or not really?

Why is a nanny doing adult laundry?

Try to stay on topic. None of your business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again, other question. Our nanny has always cleaned our kids dishes and do our laundry. Is that something that we should be more cautious about moving forward or not really?

Why is a nanny doing adult laundry?

Try to stay on topic. None of your business.

Exactly. Adult laundry should only be the business of the adult whose laundry it is. It should not be the nanny's business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again, other question. Our nanny has always cleaned our kids dishes and do our laundry. Is that something that we should be more cautious about moving forward or not really?

Why is a nanny doing adult laundry?

Yeah, that’s really disgusting.

I don't like other people doing my laundry, so its not something I would think about. But why is it "disgusting"? I know lots of people who have their nannies help with laundry. Actually our old nanny tried to do my laundry without me asking and I had to politely tell her not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP again, other question. Our nanny has always cleaned our kids dishes and do our laundry. Is that something that we should be more cautious about moving forward or not really?

Why is a nanny doing adult laundry?

Try to stay on topic. None of your business.

Exactly. Adult laundry should only be the business of the adult whose laundry it is. It should not be the nanny's business.

Again stay on topic. You decide for yourself whether to do laundry or not. Who made you the laundry chief for everyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So after 10+ weeks, we are finally bringing our nanny back. We have two kids aged 1 and 3 yrs old.

Going to have a conversation with her about safety surrounding COVID.

Wondering what topics to discuss and precautions to take?

We both live in Montgomery County.

We’ve agreed to both continue to stay isolated at home for the time being outside of essential tasks like trips to grocery store etc. We trust her, she is smart and responsible. She has one teenage child and a husband who is a general contractor/handyman. We talked about if anyone feels sick in either household we tell each other, and she not come in if that’s the case.

If anyone in either household is sick what would I do? Even if just like a minor cough, would people have their Nanny not come in for two weeks or is that overly cautious?

Wearing mask - do people have their nanny wear a mask at all times even inside with the kids or no? When should we wear masks ourselves when interacting with nanny - we both are working from home for probably a while longer, have two separate rooms we can both use as offices when working. Should we get masks for either kids?

Do we ask our nanny not to kiss our kids? Any physical interaction we should discuss about limiting? It’s kind of tough for such young kids to limit much for the nanny in that regard.

I’m sure there’s a ton I’m not thinking of, so any suggestions/examples of what you or others you know are doing would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

You either trust your nanny or you don't. If you place all these restrictions on her then she should tell you to go to hell and quit on the spot.

[Anonymous]

I think it's simple, continue to practice social distancing and if anyone doesn't feel well, the other party should be notified, immediately. I'd personally give the nanny the following work day off and then check in the next day. There's tons of free testing sites, so perhaps that should be in your agreement 'anyone who falls ill, must take a Covid test within 48 hours' and during that period, the nanny should stay home, ideally with pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's simple, continue to practice social distancing and if anyone doesn't feel well, the other party should be notified, immediately. I'd personally give the nanny the following work day off and then check in the next day. There's tons of free testing sites, so perhaps that should be in your agreement 'anyone who falls ill, must take a Covid test within 48 hours' and during that period, the nanny should stay home, ideally with pay.

*forgot to add, I wouldn't wear a mask in the house for 8+ hours so I wouldn't expect nanny to; continue to wash hands, have her disinfect stuff often etc.