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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you should try being more specific with her about what it is that you want accomplished during those hours. You've listed a lot of things here and hopefully you both can have a realistic discussion of what you'd like to see done on a daily/weekly basis.

Also, try to be realistic about the amount of time she has to work with. 9 hours/week in a 5 day week is just under 2 hours per day. If she is doing preschool drop off and pick-up, she could very well only have an hour each day to get done what you're asking. She's not going to be able to do kid laundry, prep your meals, run errands, and vacuum your house in an hour a day. [/quote]

OP here.  Agree that being more specific will be helpful.  In an effort to avoid micromanaging, I figured I'd give her the general expectations and allow her to manage her time; that does not seem to be happening, though.

As for being realistic about the amount of time she has to work with, that nine hours per week is genuinely nine hours.  She has three days with a three hour block of time between when she should be returning from preschool drop off to departing for preschool pick up.  It's a 3.5 hour preschool day, and it's a ten minute drive to preschool, so at most it's 15 minutes for drop off and 15 minutes for pick up.  That leaves her three hours to "kill" each of the three days.  It's not an hour here or an hour there, it really is three hours.  I also don't expect meals, errands and vacuuming to occur simultaneously; errands would be a once/week event, if that, and unless she is sitting in the laundry room watching the machines spin, kid laundry does not in any way come close to consuming that time.  I do expect her to manage her time and be efficient.  If she's just wildly inefficient, I don't have a desire to pay for that.  If I can manage to throw in a load of laundry, prepare a meal for 30 minutes, throw laundry in the dryer, run a vacuum for 10-15 minutes, and then fold laundry in the afternoon, I am baffled as to why she's not able to do even less than that.  And I am NOT superhero efficient by any means.[/quote]

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