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[quote=Anonymous]It sounded like the OP was looking to hire a new nanny and asking about how to structure the job and pay for a situation with 1 child at home and 1 child at school. What works marvelously for us was hiring a nanny at a normal market rate and including light housekeeping. This justifies one basic rate and the tasks simply change depending on how many kids are home and what is going on. The light housekeeping is very important. Our lives would be chaos if we were doing everything at night and on the weekends. I enjoy spending time with my kids and one of the reasons we hired a nanny was to make our lives run better.

On days when my older child is home from school, depending on the reason he is home, things may not get done and this is fine with us. On other days, it is very valuable to us to have all laundry, grocery shopping, and basic light housekeeping done. I know how long my youngest naps and know that the nanny gets at least an hour usually more a day on top of tasks. DH and I actually do the heavy cleaning and yard work stuff on weekends when the youngest naps.

This arrangement is the norm among everyone that I know who has a nanny. It isn't a difficult at all to find a nanny who can be great with the kids and do basic light housekeeping. There are nannies who have an attitude that they shouldn't need to do anything during nap time or preschool time but those were not nannies that we were willing to hire. [/quote]

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