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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not Ms. Diplomacy so could use some advice on communicating in a constructive non-bitchy way to our nanny.  She has been with us just a few months and when we hired her, we agreed that she would do some housecleaning (when she is NOT watching the child) as she needed more hours than we needed of childcare. She has done minor cleaning, like a half hour here and there, and today is the first day I gave her a bloc of two hours to do significant cleaning.  I made a list and identified to her the priorities and she did a sh*t-poor job.  For example, I told her one of her priorities was cleaning the bathroom and all she did was clean the counters.  Not even the sinks!  Why would someone clean the counter, but not the sink?!?  My bottom line gripe and what I have been feeling for a while is that when I ask her to do cleaning, she always does less than she should.  I think she would rather just watch the child and do only minor cleaning, but we agreed that cleaning would be part of the job.  I do like how she watches my child, but I pay her a very good above-market rate and feel like I'm overpaying her if she's not going to do the non-childcare part of the job well.  I still want to try to make things work with her, so I'd like to communicate to her politely but firmly.  Any advice?[/quote]

OP- wondering how much you oay per hour. Thanks[/quote]

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