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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are most 24/7 nannies sort of "on call," but free to come and go if they are not needed?  Or have a lot of vacation built in?  When do you visit your parents, or shop for clothes for yourself, or talk to your best friend on the phone, or take care of elderly parents?  As a mom, I can shlep my own kids to a lot of this stuff, but it seems weird for a nanny to do.

Also, do you do all of the crap stuff like filling out school forms, signing kids up for classes and purchasing all of the gear needed, changing clothes for the season, giving stuff away to goodwill, etc.?  How do you find time to do all of that when you have the kids with you 24/7? 
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Well, I was living out of state, I wasn't responsible for my elderly relatives.  No, I wasn't on call, I was required to be with the children (in the house if the children were sleeping) at all times.  I shopped for clothes whenever I needed to do so, usually the same day that we were doing shopping for kids' clothes.  I called my friends and family while the children were playing at the park, chasing the ponies or finally all asleep (after 10pm).

I was homeschooling, so I wasn't filling out school forms, I was finding the curriculum and implementing it.  I also found the local homeschool groups, made sure the kids went to the weekly gym activities, arranged to attend the groups' field trips.  We sorted clothes every second month, one pile to mend/cut down, one to donate, one to recycle into rags and one to put away for someone else to wear later.  We made it work, and I worked crazy hours, but it's the same hours that a SAHM homeschooling 7 children would be doing.  The only difference is that I'm a nanny, I take care of the kids, I don't fulfill the wifely position for DB.[/quote]

I'm the nanny above who worked 4 24 hour days a week. Came in on Monday morning at 8 and was off on Friday morning at 8. I wasn't on call or allowed to come and go while on duty, but required to be with the children at all times.  If they were sleeping then I was in the house.  I tried to keep errands and other things for my days off unless it was something that absolutely had to be done.  There wasn't much time for phone calls, but I would occasionally catch up with friends and family after the kids 
were asleep.

Yes I did most of the "crap" stuff like filling out forms, changing clothes for the season, signing them up for classes, etc.

As far as vacation, I basically got vacation either before or after the family went on a vacation.  If you went on the vacation with them you would work the whole time they were away and then get the same amount of time when you came back. There were 4 nannies in my job (2 on duty at a time), so we switched off who went on vacation and who did the block of time when they got back.  [/quote]

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