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[quote=Anonymous]Hey guys, I'd like to start by saying I have a weekday live in position and recently accepted a temp day gig for extra $$ with Christmas around. To start, I am caring for a 1 year old while this family nanny is on maternity leave. She's Filipino and she also cleans their house and does their laundry for extra $ so she basically was their housekeeper as well. I am not trying to start a controversy before anyone replies! But I know many people kind of disagrees on the nanny and housekeeping role. I strongly believe a nanny's job is to strictly take care of the child, straightening up after ourselves, doing that child's laundry on occasion and occasionally help with maybe putting dishes away ect.

Anyways, I started this new gig, the mom in law is here when I arrive and she comes back in the afternoon. I've been told plenty of times, they can't afford to pay someone for a full day and pay the maternity leave so I work 4hrs/day and granny comes in evening and get older kids and take care of all 3. So between the grandmother trying to run the home, and the parents giving me different duties some times it's gets frustrating. However, I noticed the family are very messy and when I mean messy, they basically throw everything in the sink, leave food on kitchen floor, crumbs everywhere, toys everywhere. The oldest is actually six so he could clean up before bed. So when I arrive in the mornings, the grandmother is always saying, this daughter of mine has always been messy, I wish she grows out of it ect. I would always play it off and say I understand some days, people get busy and can't get to things blah blah but she's like no, this is everyday, get used to it. Yesterday, I spent an hour just straightening this place up and the dad (works from home) said as long as the toddler is occupied and you can see him, he's safe, just straighten up. Today, they requested me to do laundry Also! I don't mind doing the toddler i care for but I've never done the family laundry. I'm not interested in spending 1/2 my day cleaning because they're too dirty to clean up after dinner so they leave it for me and the grandmother in the mornings. [b]As I said, I know many nannies do this daily, however my question is for nannies who do not do housekeeping along with childcare. How would you approacj this family informing them, this was not apart of the agreement when I interviewed with them in Oct[/b] ? [/quote]

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