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[quote=Anonymous]We were in the same boat a few years ago.  After discussions with our nanny, she also stated that she would rather stay with us and allow her work to change from full-time childcare to part-time childcare and part-time other because she wanted to stay with us.  What we did was grant her flexibility to do stuff during the school hours, so rather than say she had to be in our house from 11 until preschool pickup, we came up with things we wanted her to do each week (sometimes they needed to be done on a specific day, sometimes not) and we gave her the flexibility to do those things when she wanted.  So, for example, we had her do our grocery shopping.  If she wanted to do that at 8 am instead of 11 am, that was fine.

She also did some of our meal prep and cooking, mostly for cook-ahead type things since she wasn't at the stove when we walked in from work because she was with our kids at that time (they're twins so they both his preschool at the same time).  She continued to do their laundry but I also gave her more work with regards to their clothes, so she would change out the clothing for each season, take things to be stitched/fixed/etc. to the tailor, drop things off at the consignment store, pick up things I ordered online from the mall, etc.  She would run to Target or wherever for supplies for school projects or things needed for birthday parties.  She also served as my assistant, in some ways, so I would have her return things to the post office or UPS or run other errands like that.

We then moved across the country and continue to have a full-time nanny although our kids are now in elementary school.  She obviously does even less childcare (except during the summers and breaks), but she does all of the above and also helps out with things around the house like ordering paper towels from Amazon when we're low, etc.  The way I always handled it was to make sure my nanny was comfortable doing whatever was being asked, make sure we are compensating her appropriately (we have always paid for gas but this expense goes up when they're driving around running errands), and made sure I was respectful of their schedule, so if they told me six months in advance that they had a dentist appointment at 8 am I'd put it in my calendar and make sure I didn't ask them to do something on that day and time.

Good luck working out this arrangement, it has worked wonderfully for us![/quote]

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