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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Agreed. In a share, one of the perks of hosting (and thus taking on extra wear and tear and cleaning responsibility) is being able to utilize the nanny's down time for child-related cleaning (including vacuuming and kitchen floor care), laundry, meal prep, researching kid gear and activities, and other tasks. All these things are part and parcel to nanny work. The "nannies" who expect to get paid to do their homework are really just babysitters.[/quote]

+2 I considered a share once. I have several friends in shares and they said the same thing above. Hosting has some drawbacks in terms of wear and tear on your home, expense of using time controlled heat/A/C, and needing to keep extra stuff around but the benefit is that the nanny does do house related tasks. I opted for our own nanny. I was upfront in the interview about what child related and non child related household tasks were including. None of the candidates had a problem with this. All the reference checks confirmed that the candidates did a good job on these things in their previous jobs.

There seems to be a small group of crazy nannies on DCUM who believe they should get 3-4 hours downtime in an 8-10 hour day. This just isn't the norm in the actual world. [/quote]

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