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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It should all be made 100% clear before hiring.  I am a nanny who will do anything and everything for the child in my care - laundry, cleaning, dishes, cooking - but nothing for the parents.  I make this clear before hiring.  For one thing, I have no time for anything else and for the other, it would change the relationship I have with my charge's parents.  Doing the parents laundry is too intimate for me.

I'm not a jerk about it -- if one parent is in a hurry one morning and leaves a few dishes in the sink that I will wash them but I do not regularly do the parents dishes.    [/quote]

This is the clearest post on "light housekeeping" for a nanny.  No, I would not do the parent's laundry either but I would unload the entire dishwasher if some of the children's dishes are in it (I'm not a jerk either)

OP should just hire a maid once a week or learn to throw her own dirty underwear in the washing machine.  [/quote]

This isn't a post about light housekeeping. It's a post from a nanny that won't do any housekeeping. Which is fine. But don't take a position that includes housekeeping, light or otherwise, if you don't do housekeeping.[/quote]

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