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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But remember that this is your job and then you get to go home. It's easier for most people to be consistent with kids when you're only doing it 9 hours a day and then you have all your evenings and weekends to get your own stuff done and relax.  It's much more difficult when you are trying to be consistent (e.g. Make the kids clean up their toys every single time) after you've already worked all day, got home, tried to make dinner with kids climbing all over you, and you're desperately trying to get them to her so you can finish all your chores and hopefully have a minte to yourself. Same thing on the weekends - you've worked all week, then you get woken up at 6:30am on Saturday and the kids are already wired and you have a million errands to run, but the kids want you to pay attention to them, and so on. [/quote]

It's easier when the nanny is only doing it 9 hours a day? Um, that is the majority of the waking day for the kids, and 5 days out of 7 is again the majority of the week. If the nanny can do it, then the parents should be able to as well. Nannies take care of lunch and it is not always just a sandwich. We also cook and clean up after it. Some also do dinner for the kids (and parents do their own dinner). We might also do the bath and bedtime routine. We get the kids to clean up their toys after playing with them. The nanny has done all the hard part for you, training them to actually go and do it (maybe with her help). You just need to put forth the effort to make sure that they keep doing it when with you as well.

The thing is that if you have someone getting the kids to do it all day long throughout the work week, you should only have to tell them to do it on the weekends and they should know what they need to do. It's the not telling them to do it, which gets them into the practice of not having to do it for mom and dad, only nanny, that makes it fail for you. If you let it slide, then they get used to that from you. If you would just say go clean up (and either start counting, tell them there will be a time out or whatever discipline you do) if they don't go and do it in a reasonable amount of time, it will show them you are serious and it will be done. You really don't have to do anything other than tell them to do it. If you say this every time, since they are used to doing it every time with nanny, they will start to do it every time with you as well.[/quote]

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