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[quote=Anonymous]I've taken positions as nanny/housekeeper and a position as nanny/house manager, and as PP noted, they are very, very different.

A housekeeper may buy your groceries, pay for dry cleaning, possibly pay landscaping.  A house manager can be in change of your full budget for the month, including access to your checking and savings accounts, to make sure that utilities, taxes and everything else is done.  A housekeeper will clean your home and organize if things are out of place, supervise someone coming to fix the sink, let the dogs out.  A house manager can schedule and pay for someone to come fix the sink without notifying you that it needs to be done, decide that it's time to switch the kids' summer wardrobes for fall/winter, and schedule and take the dog to the vet.  A housekeeper will do all the housekeeping, laundry, and as much ironing as you leave time to do, but a house manager will only do as much housekeeping as fits into the schedule.

When I've had positions as housekeeper, the parents seem to assume that elementary-age kids shouldn't pick up their own clothes and put them in the hamper, teens shouldn't be required to bus dishes to the sink.  On the other hand, the position that was nanny/house manager was for a father who expected the kids to learn how to take care of their own things and to do some chores, so I had plenty of time to do all of the scheduling and financial duties that he needed done.[/quote]

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