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[quote=Anonymous]1. What is the best way to keep the lines of communication open? Does a weekly sit down help?  Yes, they help. One parent should be the point person, and needs to check in on a regular basis.

2. How do you keep track of hours? Does your nanny record them and report them to you or is that an employer responsibility?  It's the nanny's responsibility, but we as employers have a firm grasp on when the nanny arrived and left so we'd recognize if they were padding.

3. What are ways to create the best work environment? Are there any little perks that make a work environment particularly appealing?  We make sure we leave a clean house in the mornings. We don't have the nanny come in to dinner dishes from the night before and two babies who need diaper changes and a full diaper pail. Clean house, food for the kids lunches and snacks, diaper bag packed, etc. We pay for monthly mass transit for nanny since it's used to take the kids places daily. We keep some of the snacks and drinks the nanny likes in our house.

4. How do you handle petty cash? Do you just stick an envelope in a drawer somewhere and periodically refresh it?  Our nanny leaves us a note on Friday letting us know the loose schedule for the following week. Monday - Toy Museum $25 total, Tuesday, art class & story time, Wednesday - Aquarium & play date with Larla $55 total, etc. Over the weekend DH and I add up how much is needed based on that, then add up the costs for errands we want the nanny to do for us (it is in our contract that she will do x number of errands per week), and leave that much money in petty cash. Throughout the week the nanny takes money and leaves us receipts for each thing money is spent on. We usually add $20 or so to what we think it should cost. [/quote]

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