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[quote=Anonymous]I apologize in advance that this is going to be a little long. We have had our current part-time nanny for 4 months now for our 2 children.  Initially when we hired her the hours were 9:30-3:30 but with the understanding that in January the hours were going to increase significantly (start earlier and end later).  In September DC1 started preschool and we had to change the start time to 8:30.  At the time I asked her if we could then change the times to 8:30-3.  It increased her day by a half hour for which we would obviously increase her pay in accordance with her hourly rate.  She asked if she could do 8:30-2:30 instead.  I think it has to do with when her children come home from school so I agreed.

The problem is that both children go down for naps between 2 and 2:30 so when I get home at 2:30 she is just finishing putting them down for their naps and hasn't cleaned up from their morning at all.  Sometimes she will clean up but sometimes she leaves a pretty big mess when she leaves.  If she ends up staying later than 2:30 to clean up I always pay her for that time (and I round up pretty significantly because I feel badly that she is there later than she wants to be).

Today when she left she threw a couple of toys in their boxes but left the dirty lunch dishes in the sink and a bunch of books and toys still on the floor.  It only took me about 5-10 minutes to clean it up but I am 6 months pregnant and usually pretty exhausted when I get home.  I often have my own things I need to do while the children are napping plus I really need some time to get off my feet. Standing to do dishes and crawling around on the floor to clean up toys (even for 5 minutes) is not only tiring but starting to become painful for me.

I'm not sure how to handle this because on the one hand, I did agree to these hours but on the other hand it's really difficult for me to have to clean up when I get home.  I also don't really understand why she can't just quickly throw the dishes in the dishwasher after they finish lunch and before she takes them up for their nap. [/quote]

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