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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We've always said to please help yourself to anything you find, but our nanny has always brought her own lunch - from my experience, that's a typical arrangement.  I think it's standard to say "help yourself" but not to seriously mean it literally and definitely not standard to have a live-out adding things to the grocery list beyond the very basics.

Honestly what most MBs are going to mean by "help yourself to anything" is that of course a nanny is free to have what she's feeding the kids, help herself to juice/water/milk/sodas, or even have a snack now and then.  I imagine they don't literally mean to make yourself every single meal and add things to the grocery list.[/quote]

Yes, I agree many people don't mean what they say. However, in a professional setting such as this it would help everyone out to be straightforward and honest with your language.[/quote]

Sure, that makes sense.  I was mainly reacting to the posts that say its standard to as live out to be told to help yourself to whatever you want and to the ones saying its standard to provide lunch for your nanny. It's really not. Of course there are families who do, but I'd caution nannies that if your MB says "please feel free to help yourself to anything you want" and then you're makin yourself breakfast, lunch, and dinner outside of what you feed the kids, I can guarantee you she'll think it's very odd unless she's made it clear that's what you are to do. [/quote]

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