Nannies, do you do mb's dirty laundry (panties, sheets, etc)?
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Except my job as a nanny is to care for the children NOT take care of your house and make everything run smoothly. Someone may appreciate you doing their laundry, or wiping their ass for that matter, but it DOES NOT make them respect you MORE. Not to say that these people don't deserve respect, but just how much reverence do you show a janitor or garbage man? They perform tasks that no one else wants to, and we appreciate it perhaps, but for the most part they are invisible so long as the job gets done. We only notice them when the job doesn't get done. I'm not insecure abut my job, seeing as how I define it as it works for me. I take care of kids and all of their needs. I'll do most things in the kitchen, and tidy as I see necessary, but I'm not going to do every little thing my boss needs done because I'm scared of losing my job. Funny thing is, in all jobs, past and present no one has asked me to do parent laundry. And they all respect and adore me! Not cleaning their panties hasn't changed that. |
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| I agree with 9:37. Jack (or Jane) of all trades, is the master of none. It's true, ladies. The more things you do around the house, the less you are considered a child care professional. |
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Any reasonable mother would conclude that you don't mind washing her underwear from the fact that you took and stay in a job that requires that. We all do things at work that we don't love. |
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| Nannies: I hear a lot of talk on this board about how your job as a nanny is limited to childcare. Wrong. Your PROFESSION is child care. Your job is whatever the parents define it as, by contract (if you have one) or otherwise. |
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Personally, I 'd never consider a housekeeper's contract unless they doubled my salary, and then I'd say no thanks. Two jobs for the price of one is BS as far as I'm concerned. -Happy Professional Nanny who loves the Full Time Housekeeper |
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Actually my job is whatever we, the parents and myself, negotiate. They can define whatever the flip they want but those who desire to hire this nanny recognize that I don't do parent laundry. So actually its not my job so long as I don't sign a contract including it, and I won't. I don't think I've ever so much as interviewed with a family that wanted this, and trust me I've dealt with some real pieces of work. |
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| i've done it all, including bloody handkerchiefs (daily) at one nightmarish job. |
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| I have done laundry (panties included) for a single mom with one child. Mom was a very clean person and most of her laundry went to the dry cleaner, so it wasn't a tremendous amount of work. She appreciated the extra help and compensated me well for it. The family I work for right now isn't terribly clean, so I only do the child's laundry. The mother has tried to get me to do her laundry, but changed her mind when I told her what I charged for adult laundry. |
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A nanny's job does NOT consist of doing the family's personal laundry. If the nanny + family both AGREE to it, then that is their choice but by no means is it standard.
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| Yes, this was actually in my job description. BUT. The laundry is sometimes more than I can handle. due to the fact that they( MB & DB) are BOTH slobs! Clothes on the floor EVERYDAY instead of placed in the hamper. Towels, underwear, panties etc. EVERYDAY! Not to mention that she is just plain old DISGUSTING! Eeewww! |
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+1 |
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Can't they afford a housekeeper? |
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For many families, the issue is not whether they can afford a housekeeper; the issue is fairness and spending our hard-earned money wisely. Very few parents are comfortable giving the nanny a three hour paid break each day to read magazines and watch tv while the kids nap, just so that we as parents can come home and, instead of spending time with our kids, scurry around doing the kind of tasks that a stay at home parent would do throughout the day. I expect my nanny to take an hour break each day just for herself, but I expect her to spend the other two hours of kids' nap time on things a SAHM would do: child-related food prep and housekeeping tasks (first priority) and non-child-related light housekeeping tasks (second priority, but required because I just don't have ten hours a week of child-related tasks each week). The latter category includes laundry, plant care, ironing, etc., but never heavy cleaning (b/c the cleaning service does that). We negotiate the specific tasks in advance, but some flexibility is required and I would not hire a nanny who had an attitude about this, unless she could suggest other things she would do during naptime that I felt would benefit my household. Resting so that she'll be a better nanny when the kids wake up doesn't cut it. Any health adult should be able to get through an 8-10 hour day without a 3 hour break. Yes, I could afford to hire a housekeeper (on top of the cleaning service) to come in for ten hours a week to do this kind of light housekeeping, but I would be financially irresponsible to do that for the sole purpose of making my nanny feel like a respected professional because she gets to sit on her rear end for three hours a day while my kids sleep. |
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| I never ask the nanny to clean anything - I tell her she doesn't have to. But she does laundry anyway sometimes when the kids are sleeping, which is really sweet. I come home and it's all done, like a surprise. She tells me she enjoys doing laundry and feels bad I'm so busy (I work a lot). But I would never ask a nanny to do that unless she was paid a LOT of money. |
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