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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if the parents had someone else handling school hour emergencies you would take other work? I don’t think so. Feels like you’re trying to take this family for a ride. Agree that daily flat rate is a much more platable approach. [/quote]

I am a nanny who is paid every week during my charges’ school hours.  There is one day that local grandparents have signed on to be the backup care and I am unpaid during those school hours.  Here are the things I can do on that one day that I cannot do on the other days:

Find other work (and yes, on multiple occasions I have babysat for others during school hours as well as scheduling parent consultant work).
Go swimming (it’s my favorite kind of exercise but I need to be available by phone, so...)
Schedule a doctor’s appointment
Schedule lunch with a friend
Run an errand or go shopping somewhere more than a few miles from the school
Go see a movie
Schedule a massage or pedicure

There is more but that gives you the idea.  It is very different to be on-call than to have time that is truly ones own.  If it were nothing to ask someone to be on call, then surely the parents would have lots of friends or fellow parents who are happy to serve that role and they wouldn’t need the nanny at all.  The fact that they are asking the nanny is indicative of the fact that they do realize it is a responsibility that could become a major inconvenience and they don’t want to call in a favor that big of anyone.  Why would a paid employee be more willing to do a big (unpaid) favor for you than your actual friends?[/quote]

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