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[quote=Anonymous]I'm about to hire a nanny for the first time. I have a four year old, and a three month old baby. When it was just the four year old I was fortunate to have  my mom watch him, but she's 67 and not up to watching two kids, hence the need for a nanny. I will be returning to work part time, about 25-30 hours per week. My ideal situation would be to hire one person to function as a full time nanny/housekeeper. When I was at work, her primary responsibility would be to play with and care for my kids, and I wouldn't expect much housework during this time. Then, when I was at home, she would spend 10-15 hours/week doing light housekeeping and errands while I took care of my kids. I would not expect the nanny to do any deep cleaning; I'll hire a house cleaning service for that every week or two. No cleaning bathrooms, mopping floors, or vacuuming the whole house. What I have I mind is some dishes, some laundry, a bit of food prep (chopping veggies for me to cook later), wiping down counters, maybe running the stick vacuum through the heavily trafficked areas, going grocery shopping, etc. The purpose of the housekeeping is to free me up to spend quality time playing with my kids when I'm home, rather than having to spend all my time at home cleaning and running errands.

Is this a feasible situation? My thought is some nannies might like it because I could give them full time hours. If I had a nanny who only wanted to do the nanny part of the job, with no housekeeping, then at best I could give them 30 hours and I know that's not enough for a lot of people. However my first priority is to find someone who is good with the kids, ideally someone with some college and/or a background in early childhood education, who will engage the kids in a developmentally appropriate way and do activities/play with them. Is someone like this likely to be "turned off" by the housework request? Would I do better to hire two different people, a part time nanny plus a part time housekeeper?

What would you prefer as a nanny, a part time position with no housekeeping or full time with housekeeping? Keep in mind, I would expect very little housekeeping to be done while you are with the kids. Almost all housework would take place when I was home and taking care of the kids myself.

MBs, if you have been in the situation of needing both nannying and housekeeping did you find one person willing to do both or is it better to get two people?

I am actually in Georgia not DC but I can't find a nanny forum pertaining to my area. Thanks![/quote]

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