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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quick crowdsourcing question:

New nanny is starting this week, I have one 7 yo DD, easy kid. On days I work nanny would drop child off and pick child up, then be home with her for an hour or two until I get home. During day I consider her to be "on" as I have a job I can't leave save a dire emergency. I don't expect her to clean beyond tidying up, so my daughter's school time is nanny's to do with as she wishes. It's been suggested that I adjust the hourly pay rate while my DD is at school, but I feel that'll be complicated and not appropriate, as she needs to be avail via her cell. I'd like to pay the same hourly rate regardless ($20/hr). Thanks for thoughts.[/quote]

Let me ask a really obvious question since no one else seems to get to it: why are you hiring a nanny for a child who is clearly aging out of nannycare age?  Yes some families do keep on nannies when children start school, but these are typically nannies who have been with these families since infancy, they didn't start when the child is 7.   What do you need the nanny for?

I am not sure I understand the argument for keeping the nanny on during school day "for availability."  Availability for what exactly? Is your daughter sick that much?

If I was in your shoes, I would hire a housekeeper/nanny rather than a classic nanny.  Childcare would occupy only an hour or two of your nanny's day, and it seems to me that you would be helped much more by someone who cleans, cooks and makes the household run in your absence and while your child is at school.  Then you would come home to a clean house, done laundry, dinner on the stove and a rested child, and you won't ask yourself what is it that you've paid $20/hr for.[/quote]

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