Am I Expecting Too Much From My Nanny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is job creep, OP. Cut it out now if you will lose a very good nanny.

Making baby food for a baby is not job creep. Stop making professional nannies look bad.

[Anonymous]

Nanny is lazy and not professional. All child related duties fall under the job description. Find a nanny who is motivated and takes initiative. Your compensation Schafer will not make nannies more lazy. It is opposite most of the time, if I am well compensated I will go above and beyond when possible without becoming too useful in non child related tasks. I certainly make baby food!

[Anonymous]

Up here. We didn’t fire our nanny. We talked and she agreed to make baby food. We set doeee expectations about the job changing and what may be expected of her as his needs change. We did make it clear that it won’t work if she isn’t willing to help with tasks pertaining to the baby. We will see how it goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Up here. We didn’t fire our nanny. We talked and she agreed to make baby food. We set doeee expectations about the job changing and what may be expected of her as his needs change. We did make it clear that it won’t work if she isn’t willing to help with tasks pertaining to the baby. We will see how it goes.

* Op here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Up here. We didn’t fire our nanny. We talked and she agreed to make baby food. We set doeee expectations about the job changing and what may be expected of her as his needs change. We did make it clear that it won’t work if she isn’t willing to help with tasks pertaining to the baby. We will see how it goes.

* Op here.

Good luck, OP. Did your nanny give any reason as to why she initially refused to make baby food?

[Anonymous]

Gets paid for a 40 hour week and only works 32, and refuses to make baby food...? I mean, that's just too much.

As others have said to you, there's a lot of people out there who would be willing to work hard for this position. It's good she agreed but I am getting a bit of a diva vibe here. Hope that's not the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This nanny needs to understand that her duties will change over time, as the child's needs change. Your benefits package sounds very generous. If the nanny is not comfortable with the evolution of duties over time (some things get added, others get deleted), you are better off changing nannies before your child gets old enough to become attached. Those transitions get harder as the child's attachment kicks in, so please try to work it out. If you can't, then you should start with a new nanny and write a contract that builds in the necessary flexibility.

+1 And I am a nanny.

A nanny should know better. (I think there’s a troll on this forum who frequently claims she’s a “nanny”, as if that should make her more credible.)

A baby who has had the same nanny for 32 hours a week for four months should already be attached to that nanny. If not, there’s something wrong.

Please note this thread is old, but I think it has some educational value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$23 an hour, 40 hours pay? She better be amazing. I think the ability to speak English fluently is necessary only after 1.5 years, frankly. Unless your HHI is so high $50k in nanny costs is no big deal.

I’m considering upping the hourly to $22 but mine also does light housework, preschool drop offs for older child. Her English is okay, some grammatical errors. It has not hindered either child.

$23 times 40 hours, divided by 32 hours is an effective rate of $28.75. Plus with all the other benefits, she should be amazing at that rate point, especially since infants sleep for so many hours a day. Even if she makes baby food she would have time to be on the phone while the baby naps.
Even if the rate is an effective $23, she should still be doing the baby food. Promise her no more job creep and see how she responds.