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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are being quite unfair here OP.

My reason being is that just because your children grow up and evolve does not mean that you can tack on add'l duties for your nanny to do unless you told her this at hire.

For instance, at hire, did you tell her, "So...We understand that when our children our young they will be quite physically dependent on you for most of their needs. I.e., feeding, diapering, sleeping, etc. However as they progress in age, they will become more self-sufficient and as they do, your workload will decrease (but your level of responsibility will of course, remain at the same level.) So we will be adding household duties to your daily workload to offset some of the childcare duties. Will you be okay with this?"

Unless she agreed to this, then you are being extremely unfair, presumptuous and clueless about employing a nanny because honestly in all of my years of working as a nanny, this one takes the cake.

I have never had a family try to balance out the workload based on a child's sufficiency levels.

You sound crazy.[/quote]

I agree that OP is being ridiculous but I don't agree that you need to outline every detail of how a job may change over time. Most nannies know when children go to school the job either ends or changes somehow. No one can anticipate exactly what their needs will be in 5 years. I have young children now and when we hired the nanny she understood it was with the hope that she would be with us for years. At some point all the children will be in school and she and I will sit down together and figure out what additional responsibilities (if any) she will take on. I think OP is completely unreasonable in her expectations. I would never expect the nanny to clean the house but I would work with her to figure out what she is comfortable taking on. I don't expect to discuss this now when none of my children are in school and we have no idea what needs we will have when they are. [/quote]

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