Bringing Back Nanny - COVID Safety agreement
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Anonymous
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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! |
Anonymous
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Masks are terribly uncomfortable after a few hours so no, I would never insist an employee wear a mask in the house.
As for kissing, my son couldn’t stop kissing and hugging his nanny regardless of what she does. Your nanny’s family life definitely poses a concern though. A husband who deals with clients can be safe but not the teenager. I don’t know what to tell you about that. We lucked out and hired a great nanny in every way not knowing that her being single and living alone would be such a plus. |
Anonymous
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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?
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Anonymous
| You can ask her to do anything but whatever the state regs are now is what you can enforce. You cannot control what her family does. |
Anonymous
Why is a nanny doing adult laundry? |
Anonymous
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I think the sustained close contact with your kids will essentially nullify precautions like avoiding touching kids’ laundry or dishes. Best we can think of is to reduce risk as much possible on your end and her end and break off contact at first sign of illness on either side. It is not 100% but nothing is.
We haven’t had housekeepers come back yet but will probably cut out laundry and bedding from their tasks so they are essentially only touching surfaces to clean them. |
Anonymous
| Are you and your kids planning to wear a mask at all times indoors? If not, you are unfair and selfish. The nanny has to protect you but you don’t have to protect her? Gross |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| Our nanny is here. I still go to my office (close the door and not see anyone). She gets groceries and we get groceries once a week or so. No we are not wearing males around each other. But we also try not to be in close proximity. We have a baby and a 4 year old. She's with them all day and holds the baby so contact is inevitable. These are risks we are ok with taking. We don't see our parents or friends and neither does she. |
Anonymous
Yeah, that’s really disgusting. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
Nanny is, obviously, expendable, whereas OP and her precious snowflakes, as well as OP and her husband are busy curing all forms of cancer and well as Covid-19. The snowflakes are the Second Coming. |
Anonymous
| We are having a lot of these same questions as we are considering getting back together with our nanny after 10 weeks of distancing. We have a two-year-old and a four-year-old so there will be lots of close contact. If we were to mandate masks, they would be for all adults us included, but that feels unsustainable. My inclination is to ask her to follow the Mask guidelines out doors but not in the house. I'm also planning on disinfecting all the high touch surfaces in our home daily. She has three school-age children and a husband who does Contracting work as well. |
Anonymous
I was going to ask the same. She is supposed to do everything related to the kids, laundry, cooking, clean up after him and maybe help with light house work if she has some time (both agreement). About the family's laundry??? I guess she must be getting an extra bonus for doing this. |
Anonymous
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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. |