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[quote=Anonymous]If you do regular house cleaning, laundry, and/or errands as part of your job, has this always been the case?  Has any of this come with more money?

We've had a nanny for going on 3 years and think she is great.  I feel like we treat her well and that her compensation is fair--not at the top end, but not at the bottom either.  When she started with us, we asked for what I would consider pretty minimal housekeeping duties--wiping off the kitchen counters, cleaning up kids' toys, and loading/emptying the dishwasher.  No kids' laundry, no meal prep aside from whatever she serves them for breakfast and lunch.

Last fall, our older DC started K so for most of the day (8:30ish until 3:45) she watches our younger DC only, who still naps for an hour or so most days.  We didn't ask for or expect any increase in housekeeping duties.  Looking forward, this fall our older will be in school (same schedule) and our younger will attend preschool 3 mornings a week.  Several people have suggested that this would become time in which our nanny could take on additional duties--doing the kids' laundry at the least, and on up from there--cleaning our house, doing our grocery shopping, doing our laundry have all been mentioned by friends who have older kids and nannies.  I'm a little reluctant to go there because I don't think our nanny really wants to clean our house, and as I know posters on here will point out, there will be plenty of days on which she'll have one or both kids all day due to illness, school closure, whatever.

On the other hand, I feel like DH is bugged by the idea that she'll be here for 6-8 hours every week getting paid with essentially nothing to do.  I look at it as an insurance policy (and surely it's less than what we'd pay for backup care) and don't really care that she'll get an extended break on those days.  Is there a happy medium?[/quote]

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