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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.  I love to cook and make all food for my charges from scratch (and we go grocery shopping weekly so that I can get anything I need to make their meals).  I use nutritional guidelines from the AAP to plan their meals.[/quote]
Sounds good to me.

I bet your employer is paying you more than OP is paying her person. [/quote]

OP here.  I suppose pay is certainly relevant to this discussion!  We pay $22/hr for one child.  Does that change anyone's answer?  I feel better after reading some of these replies- and this isn't something we clearly discussed or put in the contract, so I think I'm not going to push it too much.[/quote]

If you want to, you can offer a few dollars more in exchange for the extra work you want her to do. But put it clearly in your written agreement. You can even do a 30 trial with the extra pay, so you can see if it's worth it to you.[/quote]

Are you serious? OP is already paying well over market rate for, what sounds like, a mediocre nanny. Why should she offer MORE?

OP, you aren't asking for anything out of the ordinary or over the top here. Many nannies do meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking from scratch as part of their daily activities and do not expect to be compensated extra for it. [/quote]

Of course you compensate for what you get in return. Don't be so ridiculous.

OP's pay rate is only average, good enough for an average nanny. My rate is much higher.[/quote]

Will you stop this? OP is paying $22/hour. That is a perfectly reasonable rate and by all means she can ask for cooking at that rate. Whether she can ask it of this nanny is a different story. But your constant insistence that any rate is simply average is ridiculous. The word average means the majority of jobs fall near that value. The majority of nanny jobs in this area do NOT fall near that rate, they fall well below it. Your rate has absolutely nothing to do with what defines an average rate, so stop harping about it. You're like a man who has to constantly convince everyone that he's got the biggest d**k in the room. NO ONE GIVES A CRAP.[/quote]

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