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[quote=Anonymous]I just got a new job as a FT nanny to four children who are excessively home-schooled.  I prefer working with infants and toddlers, but I'm new to the area and the family is nice and the pay as well.

The children are all school age, and do "online schooling" through some program about 4 to 6 hours a day.  I'm their for about 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.  What the hell do I do?  These are bright kids, pretty self reliant and I feel like when I go to try to "help" they get annoyed. MB said that they are good at keeping up with their workload, it's self pacing but all four are ahead of their grade level.  I pretty much make sure they don't need any help and don't kill themselves.  I make them lunch, and sometimes dinner.  They are old enough to bath themselves and get ready for bed by themselves.  I've tried to initiate activities, but they usually prefer to read and play outside (which is fantastic, most kids prefer video games).  I feel so disconnected to them, essentially useless and lazy.  I don't know what to do with myself all day.  I miss being exhausted going into the store after work with macaroni handprints all over my outfit.  I feel like I'm just there because they are too young to stay by themselves, they are extremely independent and I'm just like awkwardly trying to get them to do stuff with me, like "interact with me child, I need interaction!"

I do some light housework, but I'm done within a few ours....ugh...what should I do?[/quote]

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