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[quote=Anonymous]I have been with my current family for almost 9 years and the job started as an occasional mom worked from home situation. At the time there was only one child, and I actually enjoyed when the mom worked from home because she would help with bottle feeding, naps, diapers, etc. And we could chat while the baby napped, or she would often let me leave early, with pay, if he was taking his long afternoon nap and she was done with work.

Fast forward to 7 years and 2 kids later, and for the past 1.5 years I have found myself in a 3 kids with both parents working from home situation, and it is so difficult! The MB's home office is upstairs, and the DB's is downstairs; so unless they are away on business or out doing errands, we are confined to the main level of the house for the entire 8/9 hour day. And this leaves the kids bedrooms and the playroom off limits for a majority of my week. If it's nice weather I can take them outside, but in NY the weather does not always cooperate. Luckily the two older kids are in school for most of the day, but when they get home from school, (or even worse, if they have a day of or summer break) it is complete mayhem!

It is impossible to keep all three kids quite. They are all fighting for my attention, fighting with eachother, unable to find something to do together because of the big age gaps. Not to mention that these kids don't know the meaning of "inside voices". And it's not always because they are misbehaving. A lot of times they are playing nicely, but start getting too loud because they are laughing and having fun. But with both parents in confrence calls all day, even this is too disruptive for them.

Several times a week the kids will get so loud and out of control that either MB or DB will have to shout at the children to "shut up", or will text me on my cell from their office asking me to keep them quiet. It's completely embarrassing and makes me feel useless. I feel like the only way to keep them quiet is to let them watch tv or play on their iPads, but then I feel like I look lazy when the parents see all 3 kids staring at screens. This is not the way I like to work, but I feel like I have run out of ways to keep them occupied and quiet. Are the parents being unreasonable when expecting me to be able to keep them all quiet of hours at a time? I have even gotten in trouble for letting them get too loud while playing outside! [/quote]

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