Are there people out there who nanny, cook, and clean?

[Anonymous]

I'm new to the nanny game, so forgive me if this is ignorant, but is this a feasible job description?

I'm looking for a nanny for my 15 month old son. Hours-7:30 am to 6:00 pm. Responsibilities would include caring for child, housekeeping, and cooking dinner. My son currently naps 3 hours per day. To ease some of the responsibility, I could cook ahead for my child and leave his meals ready for the nanny.
I would be willing to pay for the benefit of having one person do it all.

[Anonymous]

If you mean cooking and cleaning for the kid, yes. If you mean cooking for the whole family and cleaning the whole house, doubtful. It's VERY hard to get this done even with a napping kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you mean cooking and cleaning for the kid, yes. If you mean cooking for the whole family and cleaning the whole house, doubtful. It's VERY hard to get this done even with a napping kid.

Omg pp you just validated my whole damn life. I'm really sick of "you stay at home with one easy baby...what do you do all day" bullshit. But that it what I do and it is hard. Um, but I digress. Anyway, ok the kid is the mess maker anyway, so that's fine. But cooking,ugh I hate it now when I SAH. Will hate it more after I start working. Do nannies ever cook dinner for the family?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you mean cooking and cleaning for the kid, yes. If you mean cooking for the whole family and cleaning the whole house, doubtful. It's VERY hard to get this done even with a napping kid.

Omg pp you just validated my whole damn life. I'm really sick of "you stay at home with one easy baby...what do you do all day" bullshit. But that it what I do and it is hard. Um, but I digress. Anyway, ok the kid is the mess maker anyway, so that's fine. But cooking,ugh I hate it now when I SAH. Will hate it more after I start working. Do nannies ever cook dinner for the family?

Yes, but I haven't heard of ones who cook with kids that young to look after (I mean, you've tried it, it's not easy). I HATE cooking too so what I do is cook only on sunday, then make quick things all week. Slow cook 4 chix breasts, make meatballs, marinate meat etc. Then on the week days we have tacos with the chicken or beef, heated in the microwave. Pasta with meat balls etc. Also, I get a lot of prepared and semi prepared food. There are plenty of corners you can cut!

[Anonymous]

Let me just say this though, OP. A nanny will make your life so much easier even just doing normal nanny stuff. She'll do ALL the kid's laundry, prepare his meals, pick up his toys, etc. You will come home to a tidy house with a fed and happy kid. Right there life gets immeasurably easier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me just say this though, OP. A nanny will make your life so much easier even just doing normal nanny stuff. She'll do ALL the kid's laundry, prepare his meals, pick up his toys, etc. You will come home to a tidy house with a fed and happy kid. Right there life gets immeasurably easier.

Oh pp, you are starting to make my upcoming WOH life sound positively luxurious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me just say this though, OP. A nanny will make your life so much easier even just doing normal nanny stuff. She'll do ALL the kid's laundry, prepare his meals, pick up his toys, etc. You will come home to a tidy house with a fed and happy kid. Right there life gets immeasurably easier.

Oh pp, you are starting to make my upcoming WOH life sound positively luxurious!

Nannys are a luxury! (I'm an MB here). They cater to the family's needs and it really helps. They are awesome. Now, the price tag that comes with them is something else altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me just say this though, OP. A nanny will make your life so much easier even just doing normal nanny stuff. She'll do ALL the kid's laundry, prepare his meals, pick up his toys, etc. You will come home to a tidy house with a fed and happy kid. Right there life gets immeasurably easier.

Oh pp, you are starting to make my upcoming WOH life sound positively luxurious!

And also, going to work every day in a clean, quiet office, with other adults is frankly a lot easier than being home. At least is is to me. (But a whole lot less fun.)

[Anonymous]

Our manny preps dinner sometimes (marinates meat, chops veggies, makes salad, gets the 4 yr old to set the table, etc.) but doesn't actually cook the dinner. If DH and I are both going to run late or have planned to be out for dinner, he gives the kids dinner (which is almost always leftovers from the night before).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to the nanny game, so forgive me if this is ignorant, but is this a feasible job description?

I'm looking for a nanny for my 15 month old son. Hours-7:30 am to 6:00 pm. Responsibilities would include caring for child, housekeeping, and cooking dinner. My son currently naps 3 hours per day. To ease some of the responsibility, I could cook ahead for my child and leave his meals ready for the nanny.
I would be willing to pay for the benefit of having one person do it all.

In our experience, and we interviewed like 30+ nannies, this is hard to find in the DC area (no matter what pay). You will have a lot of applicants but nobody will be good for all these things (naturally). In our case, we ended up with a wonderful nanny, who is a great cook and seems to enjoy it, does everything for our child, and does the household for us here and there, at her pace, and liking, or need based. We also hired someone to come from time to time and clean. It is not perfect, but it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm new to the nanny game, so forgive me if this is ignorant, but is this a feasible job description?

I'm looking for a nanny for my 15 month old son. Hours-7:30 am to 6:00 pm. Responsibilities would include caring for child, housekeeping, and cooking dinner. My son currently naps 3 hours per day. To ease some of the responsibility, I could cook ahead for my child and leave his meals ready for the nanny.
I would be willing to pay for the benefit of having one person do it all.

At this point, no, cooking your dinner isn't a good idea, but the nanny could throw things in the crockpot or prep dinner fixings during nap. She can also do all child-centered cooking and cleaning (all of his meals, his dishes, his laundry, vacuuming the nursery/bedroom, restocking the changing table and letting you know when to get more supplies, etc). General housekeeping would be hit or miss (yes to cleaning up the kitchen floor because kid's crumbs go everywhere and it's reasonable to do the whole room instead of just around the highchair, no to dusting your house).

Keep in mind that your son is 15 months, and while he sleeps 3 hours most days, there are days that will be shorter. You also want her to spend time interactively with him, playing, teaching and taking him different places versus worrying about getting all the housekeeping done and having to stick him in the highchair or pack n play to do it.

[Anonymous]

You can possibly find someone who will be okay doing all these things, however keep in mind this is an obvious recipe for burn out.

Spending so much time daily caring for a young child while maintaining a clean house along with having dinner on the table at a specific time can be a ton of responsibility and pressure!

Even if you pay extremely well, it would still be a daily challenge no matter what.

A better idea would be to have the nanny do the cooking and hire a weekly or bi-weekly house cleaner independently.

[Anonymous]

Maybe a personal chef who loves your kid.

[Anonymous]

For $100/hr, I'd do it and I am a gourmet cook, not a chef, but cook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For $100/hr, I'd do it and I am a gourmet cook, not a chef, but cook.

How about that, OP? What can you afford? Just like in your field, you can get anything if the price is right, correct?