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[quote=Anonymous]Are you the employer or the nanny?

If you are the employer, it is really tough to have the reset conversation at this point.  Either your nanny is a self-starter or she isn't and IMO the easier thing for everyone is to hire a new caregiver who is a nanny/housekeeper and EXPECTS to do support tasks.

If you are the nanny, PP is right that a great nanny engages in at least some support tasks from day 1, and certainly should be taking on a lot by the time kids are 3+yo.  Are you part time?  Even when I was part time I would arrive at the house before the (school-aged) kids and rotate their laundry and prep dinner, then I would walk to the bus stop and supervise putting their stuff away and washing hands, etc.  Then prep snack and fold laundry while they ate, then sit with them while they did HW, then they might have lessons or classes or clubs so I would bring books along for our activity and do reading with one while the others had a lesson, then arrive home and supervise showers and jammies and finally put the finishing touches on dinner before parents arrived home.

If I were full-time I would expect to handle groceries and other errands from picking up a display board for a project or a birthday present for so-and-so or dry cleaning for the parents and so on, and more active staying on top of school assignments and forms.[/quote]

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