Nanny and 'housekeeper' duties

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing laundry now and the washer and dry take nearly an hour each. Who's washer takes 25 minutes?

You sit around and look at the machine while it's working? 25 min is active work time. Load into washer-transfer to the dryer-take out from dryer = 5 min. 20 min folding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing laundry now and the washer and dry take nearly an hour each. Who's washer takes 25 minutes?

You sit around and look at the machine while it's working? 25 min is active work time. Load into washer-transfer to the dryer-take out from dryer = 5 min. 20 min folding.

Uh, no. I misunderstood the comment. When I start the machine it tells me the run time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind that a combo person might feel like they have to finish up X housekeeping duty and let your kids play alone until it's done.

(OP) That's totally fine. I'd like for the kids to play on their own sometimes, and content for the adult to just make sure no one's eye is getting poked out or other sibling catastrophes Since the kids are both in school/preschool, I'm not concerned about the nanny needing to do a lot of education and activities with them every single minute of the day. Some play and outings would be great, but so would having the kitchen floor mopped more often than I manage to do it or dinner on the stove before 6 pm!

[Anonymous]

So I would then advertise it as a housekeeper position with child care duties rather than the other way around.