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[quote=Anonymous]MB here.  If the nanny is not meeting your family's needs, then she is not a great nanny for you, regardless of the fact that she comes on time and interacts well with your baby.  Successful relationships between nannies and employers are all about fit.

I think you're off base to expect her to do your laundry or pick up your dirty clothes when your agreement with her is clear that she will only do child-related housework.  However, if you're really just leaving one or two coffee cups and not a collection of dirty dinner dishes as well, I think you're right to be bugged about her ignoring the cups when she is hand-washing the baby's dishes anyway.  That's just petty.

As for the dishwasher, you messed up by not making that an explicit part of her duties, but I would sit her down now and tell her that you thought it was part-and-parcel to cooking in your kitchen and since there appears to have been a misunderstanding, you need to make dishwasher management part of her job.  If she gets miffed and quits, which is very unlikely, know that you are far better off making that transition and finding a better fit now rather than later.  Aside from the fact that hand washing dishes does not sterilize the way a dishwasher does, there is no reason for you to put up with such a rigid nanny when there are many, many others out there who will happily do everything she does plus the dishwasher.[/quote]

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