Reply to Getting nanny to clean up after meals and playtime..

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "Getting nanny to clean up after meals and playtime.."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This reminds me of something a former client told me. She'd hired me as a summer nanny for her two elementary schoolers. She told me that the previous summer she had hired the 16 year old who lived a few houses down for $9/hr. The kids had a lot of fun with her, but she came home every single day to a huge mess in the play areas and the kitchen. She said it was worth it to her to double her childcare costs (hiring me at $18/hr) just to have the peace of mind to know she'd be coming home to a clean house. Right now it sounds like you're paying for the real nanny but only getting the actual experience of a neighborhood high schooler (decent with the kid maybe but subpar in other aspects). [/quote]

Nanny is something different to everyone. I'm paid $24 an hour and I rarely ever do the dishes, and never do any other chores (vacuum, sweep, wipe things, etc). I am there only for the baby. Sometimes I will find myself doing the dishes, but usually DB happily does them when he gets home. Some people want just a nanny and some want a nanny/maid.[/quote]

I've been a nanny over 20 years.  I have never heard any nanny or family refer to cleaning up after themselves as "maid" duties.  It is standard in the industry that even if a nanny is told to do no housework whatsoever (not even child laundry), that she cleans up the messes she and the kids made during the day.  That includes the dishes they dirtied.  That is not being a maid.  Most people even expect that of the babysitter.  It's reasonable for OP to expect her nanny to do that.   [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics