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[quote=Anonymous]Hard to tell what you're looking for here.

It is not customary to reduce a nanny's hourly pay when a child starts school, but she's correct that adding extra tasks to her day can be a part of the restructuring. The question for you is how much of her day do you want focused on your child who is still at home and how much do you want focused on other tasks (grocery shopping, meal planning/prep, housekeeping, errands, etc.). It seems to me with one child at home FT you don't really have the "room" to add more jobs to her day. If both kids were in school, sure, this would be the time for her to move into a household manager position, but with a young child to supervise/engage/enrich/educate/entertain she will probably be busy enough. You could ask her to vacuum carpeted areas, perhaps. You could potentially ask her to do your laundry as well. Load, run, empty dishwasher. Basic, basic household duties. Beyond that just emphasize the care you want your DC to receive - is she going to be taking him/her out to activities during the day, trips to the zoo or the pool? If so she'll hardly be sitting around eating bonbons and collecting her money, you know? Your tone is a little off.[/quote]

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