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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you all for your responses.
Well we are trying to increase her salary and reduce her hours from 10 hours a day to 7 hours so was thinking this would be a good way to do it.

The ABA therapist does not need anyone around so thats not an issue.
In fact the nanny sometimes interferes and conflicts with the therapists or keeps ranting her personal issues to them and wastes their time 
so I feel its best for her to be out of the way when they are around.
We participate in therapy twice a week and dont really feel that nanny participating adds much value.
When the therapist was off,she tried doing it without much success anyways so maybe all she does is chit-chat rather than paying attention.

I do agree that if therapist is off and child is sick we would need to pay her and we would do that whenever that is the case.

The reason for the split hours is that she is most useful in the mornings when we are scrambling to get to work and dont want to lose that.
After that she does kids laundary and clean up in the kitchen area. 
She is not too happy unloading dishes etc as she feels its extra work for her since it also has our dishes.
I am not too happy with the cooking skills so I have to do most of the cooking as well.
So she has almost 3-4 hours of free time which she uses chatting away on phone(and for which I am paying!)

The only reason I have to keep her is that my autistic kiddo doesnt do good with sudden drastic changes and she has been with him for a year now.

And if I reduced her hours to like 4 hours a day she will not agree as it will reduce her pay.[/quote]

Special needs "mommy" here again. I have an autistic child and if I was as unthrilled (for good reason) as you are with your nanny , I would find a new one. 
Then you probably wouldn't mind paying for the extra hours since that person would be more productive and engage your child more.  Are you sure that your current nanny isn't just letting your child do whatever (stim, wander around the house, watch tv) when you aren't around?  If she is texting and chit-chatting when you and the therapists are there, you can bet she is doing more of that when no one is around. [/quote]

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