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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Infant nanny here and while I don't do the majority of MB or DBS laundry, if there's something in the mixed baskets in the laundry room I'll toss it in. It's mostly DBS things that end up in there, but on occasion MBs as well. It's such a non issue. I have several chunks of free time during the day (charges are infants) and it's literally 5 extra minutes of my time. Same with unloading the dishwasher or tossing some pasta on to boil or chopping vegetables. It's not rocket science (to me) and I'm of the same mind as the PPs former nanny. Anything *I* can do to ease up the evenings for MB and DB, well why not. I go home to a quiet house and an older child. They come home to a noisy house with 2 babies, after working all day. So I pitch in extra. I'm paid neither above market nor below. Middle of the road pay for above average nanny care. [/quote]

You are like our nanny.  I've never asked her to do my laundry, nor do I expect it, but on occasion she has thrown my laundry in when she was doing the kids.  I've also never asked her to unload the dishwasher and usually try to do it myself but if she sees me doing it she usually tells me to leave it and she will do it.  Because she goes above and beyond so often I am much more willing to be flexible with her if she needs something in return.[/quote]

This. The more my nanny helps me, the more I appreciate it and the more indispensable she becomes. When her hours were shortened to the afternoons because kid started preschool, she asked for a big raise, so her weekly income would stay similar. At first I was annoyed, but basically she was so helpful in our lives that I just sucked it up and raised it. I don’t ask her to cook or do our laundry, but once she saw our adults laundry in the dryer when she went in to do the kid’s, and she took it out and folded it all. She noticed my seat covers for the kitchen chairs were stained with stuff my toddler dropped she washed those.?she washes the kid’s bedsheets once a week though I never asked her to. Things like that. I really appreciate her thoughtfulness and she feels like a caring mom at her daughter’s house out to help. [/quote]

Oh so when she wants to bring her kid when it’s snow days or teacher training days or like yesterday due to wind, personal days off, late start times due to her attending her kids stuff.[/quote]

NP here, and I can't really accommodate late starts and personal days off unless I know months in advance.  But my amazing nanny also watches other children, and I don't mind her bringing her other charges to my house or bringing all of the kids to her house if schedules overlap.  She has a credit card to charge things.  I don't care if she is having a rough day and lets the kids watch tv.  Our previous nanny was more rigid with us, and we were more rigid with her in return.  [/quote]

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