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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our nanny has been with us for eight years.  Aside from needing her for the near constant school holidays and sick days, there is no way my kids could be involved in after school sports, play dates and lessons without her.  Our nanny continues to do the kids laundry and their meal preparation.  She became our house manager when the kids were little - handling all supply ordering, payment for housecleaning service, getting the handyman for repairs, keeping up with the payments and scheduling for the kids activities, grocery shopping for family staples (milk, juice, eggs, etc), taking care of our dog during the day.

I have friends with kids in aftercare who are always scrambling and running around at lunch or at night getting the special socks their kid needs tomorrow for gym class or the gallon of milk not to mention when their child wakes up with a fever at 6AM and they have important 8AM meetings that day.

Tell your DH to take over the default parent position and take off work for the dentist and wellness visits as well as the sick days, school holidays if he doesn't think your nanny is worth the cost.  [/quote]

We did something similar.  So the nannies who refuse to lift a finger for anything not child-related can relax, we talked to our nanny first about the changes and found out what she wanted to do (including finding another family).  She still has a guaranteed number of hours per pay period, but it's not the 100 (50/week) that she had before.  I created a calendar that had all the kids' school holidays/closings/etc. on it so we could see what each pay period would look like.  We had her take the kids to school and do the grocery shopping one day so she gets actually 11-12 hours on that day every week.  We also added in other things like running errands during weeks when school would be open for all ten days of the pay period.  She still does all their laundry (including washing and remaking their beds), she helps prepare our dinners, she babysits (we roll the hours into her normal pay, but it's care for after hours so I still call it babysitting), sometimes we add in some weekend time if we have something going on (she likes to do slumber parties at her house so we pay her for that whole time).  We also gave her an hourly raise to help offset the slightly reduced hours.  All told, she's probably make the same or even more than she did before.  With the raise, her overtime is through the roof at 1.5 times regular pay, so we try to schedule some of that each pay period.  I basically look at every two-week cycle and figure out where we can change the hours to make things work.  It costs a lot, and way more than we ever expected, but we've found that it's so worth it.  We're happy, she's happy, the kids are happy.[/quote]

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