List of duties

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

[Anonymous]

To each his own. I mean it. If you are happy with your job set up AWESOME! You really need to enjoy what you do! I know I do!

I LOVE being a "Nanny Maid", "Maid Nanny", "Maid Who Keeps Children Breathing", or whatever you want to label me! I'm super domestic so it works for me. I always offer light cleaning, set up the contract, and then I let loose on a house!

Each week during nap time I go down my list of "maid" duties and try to accomplish them each week.

Bathrooms (Kids and *GASP* parents bathroom) each week
Sweep hard floors and mop them
Sweep kitchen and entryway daily
Wipe down kitchen each day
Vacuum each week
Daily kids laundry
Dust (one thing I've always hated)
Clean up theater room
Clean toys
Organize toys
Donate toys
Organize kids closets
Help kids keep their rooms picked up
Windex handprints everywhere and anywhere


Not even half of what I listed is in my contract. I'm nuts and I love to clean.

Obviously my OCD list for the kids is a LOT longer. I love little people. So much fun.

My bosses are completely happy with me and they appreciate all the extra stuff I do. I'm constantly told they do not expect any of it. I work 65 hours a week. They work long days. I like to provide a way for them to spend more time as a family, and they do use that time.

Monday when I get into work, the place looks great. They are tidy themselves.

The fact is my mother cleaned houses when I was young. She made a killing. Must be in my blood

Sorry to toot my own horn there, I just love my career.

Everyone needs to find what works for them in this field and embrace it!

Oh, be right back....I see a speck of dust on my tv.

[Anonymous]

nannydebsays wrote:Let's see:

Full childcare (playing, feeding, dressing, diapers/toilet training, logging daily activities, etc.)

Transport to activities and school (4 or 5 days a week)

All child related cooking and meal prep, including packing school lunches

Weekly grocery shopping, using comprehensive list I created

Research on child related activities and classes

Dishwasher duty daily

Kid laundry 2 - 3 x per week

Empty trash/diaper genies

Other errands, from Target runs to returns of parent purchased items

Let dog in/out

Feed and water dog if needed

Keep house generally tidy

Manage housekeeper and other service providers

Sort through and manage the toy mountain

Keep kid clothes seasonally appropriate and help with purchasing new items as needed

Vacuum main kid area 2x a month

Doctor visits for kids as needed and prescription pick-ups

Volunteer at kids school

I probably left some things out, but generally speaking this is what I do weekly. And I still manage to have a good 1.5 - 2 hour break during naptime every day!

I consider my job to be mostly childcare, with a generous side dish of making the family's life run more smoothly. My employers have always been loving parents who work long long hours and want to be able to focus on their kid(s), not on doing dishes and laundry, when they aren't working. Frankly, I see nannies without that sort of "pitch-in" attitude cycling through jobs every year, and that doesn't appeal to me at all.

I try to be the sort of nanny I would want to HIRE if I were the high-powered executive seeking childcare.

+10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

We are on the same page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

I ask this as a real question.

Do you think parents have been somehow brainwashed by former MB/DB friends? Not maliciously of course, just somewhere along the line the role of "Nanny" changed.

I'm not in complete agreement of your stance, but I do agree that somewhere along the line things changed.

Does that even make sense?

Also, are you saying even just laundry for the child you care for is not Nanny's job?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

I ask this as a real question.

Do you think parents have been somehow brainwashed by former MB/DB friends? Not maliciously of course, just somewhere along the line the role of "Nanny" changed.

I'm not in complete agreement of your stance, but I do agree that somewhere along the line things changed.

Does that even make sense?

Also, are you saying even just laundry for the child you care for is not Nanny's job?

Thanks!

I'm an MB and my nanny does the children's laundry because when we first hired her she asked if she could do some extra things around the house for extra money. We agreed and everyone is happy. I have lots of friends with nannies and we have never once discussed what their "duties" are. The only nanny related topic I've ever discussed with my friends is how they found their nanny and sometimes we talk about how wonderful our nanny is with our children. We don't sit around discussing what everyone's nanny does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

Any nanny agency will tell you children's laundry is part of the nanny's job. You're really delusional if you think every family who can afford a nanny also has a butler.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

Fine, if you work for folks who can afford a butler then by all means cling to the narrowest job description known to man.

As it is, many of us are the only "help" a family has and are not ashamed to run the vaccum while singing silly songs with the kids. Laundry teaches clothing, color, and texture vocabulary - along with sorting. I even prefer to be in charge of organizing the toys and the nursery since I use them the most and can create my own systems. Etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

LMAO. So I guess parents shouldn't hire a nanny unless they also have a butler? Caring for children involves far more than playing with them. I'm not saying that nannies should clean toilets, but dishes, laundry, driving to activities, meal prep and keeping the kitchen and playroom floors free of food that was tossed or dropped by a testy toddler? All part of childcare, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

LMAO. So I guess parents shouldn't hire a nanny unless they also have a butler? Caring for children involves far more than playing with them. I'm not saying that nannies should clean toilets, but dishes, laundry, driving to activities, meal prep and keeping the kitchen and playroom floors free of food that was tossed or dropped by a testy toddler? All part of childcare, IMO.

+1. Who actually thinks TV emulates real life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.

Keeping the household running smoothly is not a nanny's responsibility. Just because she is physically working in the home does not mean that she is responsible for running it. This is a common misconception and needs to be addressed.

A nanny's job is childcare.

Anyone remember during the 90's that sitcom called "The Nanny?"
The family had the nanny focus on the children and care for them. They had a butler do the cleaning, etc.

That is how it is supposed to be.

For those of you who think otherwise, then you have all been brainwashed by your families.

Do not think for a moment that doing laundry is a typical requirement for a nanny.

I am a professional nanny and if I am asked to do laundry, then I make sure I get paid "extra" for it since it is a benefit for the family vs. a "given."

Please do not tell me you are using "The Nanny" as the model of what nanny jobs should look like. Take a look at the history of nannies, especially in the UK. Nannies used to do all of these things and more.

Doing children's laundry is a very typical nanny duty.

[Anonymous]

* The usual "keep the children alive and happy."
* Prep, feed and clean up from lunch and 2 snacks/day.
* Clean up our messes from the day.
* Children's laundry 2X/week.
* Take the garbage out and change the bag if it's full. (common sense)
* Sweep the floor after lunch.
* Help teach the kids to clean up after themselves. Put things where they belong, not just out of sight - that sort of thing.
* Tidy any areas of the house we've used that day.
* Keep kids bathroom cleaned up behind them.
* Go through toys once in a while and pull out the ones the kids aren't interested in anymore. MB/DB decide what to keep or not.

I don't do any deep cleaning. Vacuuming etc. is done when I'm not here. I do vacuum if it's necessary to clean up behind us though. MB and DB want me to focus on the kids.. and feel more comfortable taking care of everything else themselves. MB says it's still their job.. and their job as well to teach the kids that they function as a family to keep their household running.

It works for them/us. I have had positions where my expectations were more maid than nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To each his own. I mean it. If you are happy with your job set up AWESOME! You really need to enjoy what you do! I know I do!

I LOVE being a "Nanny Maid", "Maid Nanny", "Maid Who Keeps Children Breathing", or whatever you want to label me! I'm super domestic so it works for me. I always offer light cleaning, set up the contract, and then I let loose on a house!

Each week during nap time I go down my list of "maid" duties and try to accomplish them each week.

Bathrooms (Kids and *GASP* parents bathroom) each week
Sweep hard floors and mop them
Sweep kitchen and entryway daily
Wipe down kitchen each day
Vacuum each week
Daily kids laundry
Dust (one thing I've always hated)
Clean up theater room
Clean toys
Organize toys
Donate toys
Organize kids closets
Help kids keep their rooms picked up
Windex handprints everywhere and anywhere


Not even half of what I listed is in my contract. I'm nuts and I love to clean.

Obviously my OCD list for the kids is a LOT longer. I love little people. So much fun.

My bosses are completely happy with me and they appreciate all the extra stuff I do. I'm constantly told they do not expect any of it. I work 65 hours a week. They work long days. I like to provide a way for them to spend more time as a family, and they do use that time.

Monday when I get into work, the place looks great. They are tidy themselves.

The fact is my mother cleaned houses when I was young. She made a killing. Must be in my blood

Sorry to toot my own horn there, I just love my career.

Everyone needs to find what works for them in this field and embrace it!

Oh, be right back....I see a speck of dust on my tv.

I absolutely hate cleaning....

I wish with all my heart I could be you. Not even kidding.