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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It should all be made 100% clear before hiring.  I am a nanny who will do anything and everything for the child in my care - laundry, cleaning, dishes, cooking - but nothing for the parents.  I make this clear before hiring.  For one thing, I have no time for anything else and for the other, it would change the relationship I have with my charge's parents.  Doing the parents laundry is too intimate for me.

I'm not a jerk about it -- if one parent is in a hurry one morning and leaves a few dishes in the sink that I will wash them but I do not regularly do the parents dishes.    [/quote]

Pretty much this.

Also realize that there are positions where the nanny just looks after the child  no laundry, food prep  or bottle washing even the nursery is cleaned and sorted by someone else on staff. I've worked a job like this if your nanny is coming from than light housekeeping is baby laundry and baby dishes if she didn't fo it you would be.

Often parents consider light housekeeping to be whatever they don't want to do.
 
She should have asked and you should have defined it.

So you need to think how important this is to you  and think about what you consider light housekeeping and then present that to your nanny. Hopefully you can come to a compromise.[/quote]

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