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[quote=Anonymous]Our nanny has about three hours each day at our home with no children there. Even if you include unusual traffic and some break time, it's a minimum of 2.5 hrs each day. After several months of seeing no visible difference in what is accomplished in our home, I've asked her to begin keeping track, just for a couple of weeks, how she is using that time so I can better plan for when my kids are all in full time school (which will be another couple of years).

Fair request or unfair? She immediately responded that she'd done five loads of laundry during that time (query how one actually manages to get five loads though a washer and dryer during the time period, but whatever) and was immediately defensive. The thing is: I know from my kids that her usual M.O. is to do laundry in the afternoon during our child's nap. When she makes meals, she prepares them at the end of the day, not during the kid-free time. I am seriously wondering what she's doing with that time and would like to hear from her how she uses it.

So was I wrong to ask her to keep notes for a couple of weeks?[/quote]

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