Christmas Bonus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

No. Bonus amounts should be correlated with a nanny's contribution to the CHILD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

No. Bonus amounts should be correlated with a nanny's contribution to the CHILD.

I hope you have a post-grad degree in a field related to nannying. Because otherwise you are not contributing that much more by focusing only on the child. Personally, I find that accomplishing basic household tasks on the job is more beneficial to my charge than having me sit and stare at her, or lead her through guided activities. Kids are motivated to learn real things that matter to adults, not artificial skills we set up for them. They learn a lot more about math by cooking than doing a guided activity and so on.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

No. Bonus amounts should be correlated with a nanny's contribution to the CHILD.

I hope you have a post-grad degree in a field related to nannying. Because otherwise you are not contributing that much more by focusing only on the child. Personally, I find that accomplishing basic household tasks on the job is more beneficial to my charge than having me sit and stare at her, or lead her through guided activities. Kids are motivated to learn real things that matter to adults, not artificial skills we set up for them. They learn a lot more about math by cooking than doing a guided activity and so on.

I do have a post-grad degree in Early Childhood Development! I have a decade of preschool teaching experience as well. My job is my charge. If you can teach your charges valuable lessons by making the parents bed - go for it - your contribution is still to your charge. Since my employers have a full time housekeeper, I have to find other ways to teach my charge.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

No. Bonus amounts should be correlated with a nanny's contribution to the CHILD.

I hope you have a post-grad degree in a field related to nannying. Because otherwise you are not contributing that much more by focusing only on the child. Personally, I find that accomplishing basic household tasks on the job is more beneficial to my charge than having me sit and stare at her, or lead her through guided activities. Kids are motivated to learn real things that matter to adults, not artificial skills we set up for them. They learn a lot more about math by cooking than doing a guided activity and so on.

I do have a post-grad degree in Early Childhood Development! I have a decade of preschool teaching experience as well. My job is my charge. If you can teach your charges valuable lessons by making the parents bed - go for it - your contribution is still to your charge. Since my employers have a full time housekeeper, I have to find other ways to teach my charge.

Seriously? Making the parents’ bed? That’s your example? We are not talking about unrelated tasks here. We are talking about whether nannies should tackle CHILD-RELATED tasks other than sitting and staring at the child while they engage in a made-up adult-led activity. Can you at least admit that there is plenty of research that kids thrive when they are engaged in real-life self-care tasks such as help make their own beds, put their own toys away, sort and fold thwir own laundry and help to prepare thwir own meals? If you are as educatwd as you say, then you should know there are entired educational philosophies built on the foundational principle that kids need and want to participate productively in the life of their household. If the nanny herself is the prinary caregiver and never participates productively in the life of the household, but exclusively caters to the specific needs of the child, you are arguably robbing the child of real benefits. It is not disrespectful for parents to seek out someone who want to be a real member of the household and can teach their child to do the same.

[Anonymous]

If my family gives me anything other than cash, I'm going to be pretty upset. I'm barely scraping by financially, and a gift card is not going to help that. Just a heads up to anyone considering not giving cash... you may not know your nanny's situation. Can't go wrong with cash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If my family gives me anything other than cash, I'm going to be pretty upset. I'm barely scraping by financially, and a gift card is not going to help that. Just a heads up to anyone considering not giving cash... you may not know your nanny's situation. Can't go wrong with cash.

Wow, then get a second job or find a new job if this doesn't pay enough. No one is entitled to a bonus and most people don't actually get them.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

No. Bonus amounts should be correlated with a nanny's contribution to the CHILD.

I hope you have a post-grad degree in a field related to nannying. Because otherwise you are not contributing that much more by focusing only on the child. Personally, I find that accomplishing basic household tasks on the job is more beneficial to my charge than having me sit and stare at her, or lead her through guided activities. Kids are motivated to learn real things that matter to adults, not artificial skills we set up for them. They learn a lot more about math by cooking than doing a guided activity and so on.

I do have a post-grad degree in Early Childhood Development! I have a decade of preschool teaching experience as well. My job is my charge. If you can teach your charges valuable lessons by making the parents bed - go for it - your contribution is still to your charge. Since my employers have a full time housekeeper, I have to find other ways to teach my charge.

Seriously? Making the parents’ bed? That’s your example? We are not talking about unrelated tasks here. We are talking about whether nannies should tackle CHILD-RELATED tasks other than sitting and staring at the child while they engage in a made-up adult-led activity. Can you at least admit that there is plenty of research that kids thrive when they are engaged in real-life self-care tasks such as help make their own beds, put their own toys away, sort and fold thwir own laundry and help to prepare thwir own meals? If you are as educatwd as you say, then you should know there are entired educational philosophies built on the foundational principle that kids need and want to participate productively in the life of their household. If the nanny herself is the prinary caregiver and never participates productively in the life of the household, but exclusively caters to the specific needs of the child, you are arguably robbing the child of real benefits. It is not disrespectful for parents to seek out someone who want to be a real member of the household and can teach their child to do the same.

Oh geez, calm down, PP. Your typos are off the chart...

[Anonymous]

In my job, I get a bonus if I go above and beyond, and outside of my job description at times. Our nanny does precisely that, and that is why she is getting a $1,000 bonus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If my family gives me anything other than cash, I'm going to be pretty upset. I'm barely scraping by financially, and a gift card is not going to help that. Just a heads up to anyone considering not giving cash... you may not know your nanny's situation. Can't go wrong with cash.

Wow, then get a second job or find a new job if this doesn't pay enough. No one is entitled to a bonus and most people don't actually get them.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year I got 10000 was so good ...

Sure you did, lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

Not everybody is grateful. I have gone above and beyond with many families and very often never got any bonus or even got my birthday acknoledged.
At some point I stopped doing extra things and only stick to the basics of my job.

Nanny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Nannies are not maids and the only cleaning she should do is clean up after child while she is in duty.

Maybe, but employers usually give bigger bonuses to those employees who go above and beyond. So nannies who don't lift a finger to help with anything may not hear a complaint, but may not deserve much in the way of bonus either. Bonus amount should be correlated with the nanny's contribution to the family.

Not everybody is grateful. I have gone above and beyond with many families and very often never got any bonus or even got my birthday acknoledged.
At some point I stopped doing extra things and only stick to the basics of my job.

Nanny.

It may not have been "fair" in your case, PP, but this underscores that bonuses may be customary but are not to be expected in the nanny field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone employed by my MB - myself, the housekeeper and the weekend nanny - get two weeks pay.

+ 1. Where I work, each of the three children has their own nanny (along with two housekeepers and a chef) and everyone gets two weeks pay. Job performance has nothing to do with it. Even the lazier nanny gets the same as the other nanny and me.