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[quote=Anonymous]Our live-in has been with us for seven months. I have her scheduled every day beginning at 7am. I leave for work at 7:30am and then she takes the kids to school at 8am. The stated purpose for the overlap is to help me get the kids ready while I'm getting ready myself. In the beginning, she would just stand there until I asked her to do something - so please get the kids dressed or something like that. Then she would do that and sit on the couch until her next instruction. I tell her to feed the kids breakfast and she asks me what they should have, then makes it, puts it on the table, and goes to sit on the couch while they eat.

In the beginning, this seemed ok as she didn't know the routine, but at this point, she should know what needs to happen. I honestly don't feel like she should be on the couch at all for that hour in the morning - she sees me and the kids running around like crazy trying to get ready and she's just sitting there waiting for her next instruction.

We had a talk where I asked her what would be helpful to her in the morning and she said it would be better for her if I left at 7:15 instead - that the kids would prefer that I do things for them so it makes it difficult for her. That made sense (although what I wanted to say is that she doesn't try to engage them at all or make it fun and they have no connection so of course they'd rather me do it). So I started leaving at 7:15. But she still just sits there for the 15 minutes until I go. It's useless to have her down until the exact minute I need to leave.

Obviously something is not working and I'm willing to accept that I'm not being clear on my expectations or something. Can anyone give me any advice on how to broach this?  Nannies have any input from your perspective?[/quote]

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