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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nanny here.  I love to cook and make all food for my charges from scratch (and we go grocery shopping weekly so that I can get anything I need to make their meals).  I use nutritional guidelines from the AAP to plan their meals.[/quote]
Sounds good to me.

I bet your employer is paying you more than OP is paying her person. [/quote]

OP here.  I suppose pay is certainly relevant to this discussion!  We pay $22/hr for one child.  Does that change anyone's answer?  I feel better after reading some of these replies- and this isn't something we clearly discussed or put in the contract, so I think I'm not going to push it too much.[/quote]

If you want to, you can offer a few dollars more in exchange for the extra work you want her to do. But put it clearly in your written agreement. You can even do a 30 trial with the extra pay, so you can see if it's worth it to you.[/quote]

Are you serious? OP is already paying well over market rate for, what sounds like, a mediocre nanny. Why should she offer MORE?

OP, you aren't asking for anything out of the ordinary or over the top here. Many nannies do meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking from scratch as part of their daily activities and do not expect to be compensated extra for it. [/quote]

It doesn't matter what OP is already paying. It's bad form to add new duties that weren't agreed upon up front without increasing compensation. Like it or not, overpaid or not, doing that is a recipe for resentful nanny. OPs realistic choices here are to let the issue go, specify her expectations regarding cooking and offering more pay for more work, or advertise for a new nanny at the same rate clearly laying out her expectations up front.

I don't disagree that for the rate OP is paying that she should be able to have a nanny that cooks. It's simply not realistic to expect her current nanny to happily increase her workload for no extra pay. Do you want someone angry and frustrated with you caring for your kids everyday?[/quote]

Or she can remove all goldfish from the house along with other crappy snacks.[/quote]

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