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[quote=Anonymous]I noticed once that my terrific nanny was going above and beyond the light housekeeping I had asked of her and had regularly taken on a couple of additional housekeeping tasks.  I thanked her and told her I appreciated it and recognized it was not part of her job.  Her response was that she absolutely considered it part of her job - I had hired her to take the best care possible of my child, and the best thing for him was to ensure DH and I could maximize on family time with him when we were home in the evenings and on the weekends.  She thought doing some of these tasks gave us one less thing to worry about so that we could focus on him when we were not at work, particularly since DC takes a two hour nap in the afternoons and she has the time.  DH and I regularly bring work home to do after DC goes to bed so that we can come home at a reasonable hour so to us, having that many fewer household chores to do in the evening makes a HUGE difference.  I may not have a child development degree, but I feel confident that having a nanny (or housekeeper or sitter or whatever) who has the common sense to recognize it is better for kids to have more time with their parents is better for my child than having a nanny who has read a hundred child development books but still doesn't see it as part of her job to maximize my time child's time with his us.

OP - please don't listen to to some of the terrible advice you've gotten on this thread.  It's definitely reasonable not to want to scrub bathrooms, etc. but the reality is to get paid for the same hours, your employers have already told you you will need need to take on some more tasks.  I'd either a) ask your employers to propose a list of tasks they want and ask for a few days to consider which you'd be willing to do , or b) propose the tasks you've already named that you'd be willing to do and see what they come back with.  As a third alternative, would you find another job during those hours if they didn't pay you to keep them free?  If not, you might suggest just having those hours off and unpaid, and agreeing to make yourself available for school holidays with x weeks of advance notice and at a higher rate for those hours (and to the best of your ability on sick days at the same or even higher rate).  Since it sounds like you'd prefer having the time off unpaid, that might be a win-win for both you and the family.[/quote]

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