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[quote=Anonymous]We have almost 3 ye old twins.  I don't live in DC, I'm in Nashville, so wages are lower but we still pay our nanny more than anyone I know, other than some of the country music stars, athletes, etc., lol.  Anyway, she is scheduled for 55 hours a week.  We pay 12 days vacation, pay holidays, pay her full salary when we're traveling to allow her a steady paycheck and have given her bonuses totaling about 2.5 weeks. Nshe didnt sk for any of this, we Offered it.  She's been with us for 10 months and initially was fabulous with the kids.  She's still good but I think is struggling now that the kids are getting older and are more active.  Our expectations are that she take the kids to one activity per day (gymnastics, library, inside play place primarily), do the kids laundry, clean up after the kids, and give,them a bath daily.  We do not leave dishes for her to do and have never asked her to clean anything else nor have we added to her responsibilities.  The kids were to go to preschool, full time in June but she mentioned watching them part time, 3 days a week.  It will cost us more but that's cool. She asked for a $2.50/hour raise, she's complaining that she can't get everything done in 10 hours a day now that the kids are taking 1.5 hour naps and wants to work 11 hours.  She does stay late but frankly I'd like her to leave on time and often she's here waiting for a ridebecause she gives the car to her son to drive.  So a load of laundry a day, take kids out for about 2-2.5 hrs including travel time, clean up after kids and give them a bath.  No housecleaning.  Why can't this get done in 10 hours?  And I've agreed to $2 more an hour but not $2.50  she acted all taken a back.  There are other thins that irritate me but she's good with,the kids so we keep her.

Are my expectations unreasonable?  She was supposedto errands, etc for us but our grocery bill went up by $700/month when she did the shoppong so she no longer does that.  She acts like this is soooo much work, and again, she suggested the part time gig, not me.  I want to be fair but I'm pretty frustrated.

Thabksifyou made it this far.[/quote]

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