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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Most nannies do light housekeeping. Picking up after the children, sweeping/running the vacuum occasionally, loading /unloading the dishwasher and children's laundry are light housekeepeing. If you expect a nanny to make your bed and wash your dirty clothes, you've got very unrealistic expectations. If you want your house cleaned, hire a housekeeper.[/quote]

No way. Run do not walk from nannies who refuse to do anything during nap time. All nannies DO children's laundry, run the vacuum cleaner in playrooms/kid's rooms, sweep after breakfast/lunch, and unload/load the dishwasher. Light housekeeping nannies do grocery shopping, meal prep, adult laundry, change bed linens, vacuum the whole house or dust. Heavy housecleaning is cleaning an oven or scrubbing toilets and floors.

Your position has 2 kids with one in school part time. You absolutely want someone who will bring more value than watching TV during nap time. This is a big first time nanny boss mistake to not include light housekeeping tasks. We let go of our no housekeeping nanny and regret that we didn't do it sooner. New nanny is much more active with the kids and makes life so much easier by doing light housekeeping during naps. She still gets an hour of downtime but she doesn't expect to read or watch TV for 3 hours every day. We learned the hard way that lazy in one area equals lazy in other areas. Someone who expects to sit on the couch for hours is not someone who is a good nanny with your kids when they are awake. The best questions for reference checking is to ask what the nanny did while the kids were napping or at school.

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