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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]No, someone that does it all usually isn't doing the childcare part FT. This is what happens when the kids are old enough to be going to preschool daily, or kindergarten and up, they need more help with driving kids, running errands, cooking and cleaning than just one thing done[/quote]

So what exactly does a nanny do when the kids nap four hours a day out of an eight or nine hour work day? How is it that nannies here expect to be able to run there own errands but when it comes to running family errands (while they are being paid by the family) this is somehow shorting the kids? There is huge amount of dishonesty going on here from the nannies. [/quote]

What? I never said anything about running my own errands. I don't do that while I am working, ever. I do it on my own time.

Not everyone that is a nanny works with infants. Which are the only ones that nap for 4 hours out of a day. The time the kids are napping is not a good time for you to run family errands since you have to be at the house with the kids (since most people don't want their children to nap in strollers). It is also just a fact that someone who "does it all" as I was talking about (doing FULL housekeeping and cooking all family dinners, driving kids around and running errands for the family) tend to be working with older kids. Maybe there is one in preschool for part of a day, others in school all day. Most of the time, when you are taking care of infants or toddlers home all day, you are only doing light housekeeping, cooking for kids, laundry for kids etc. They could be considered to "do it all" but they don't normally do ALL of the job for the parents as well and extras not related to kids (like parents laundry, cleaning all bathrooms, organizing random closets or basement).  That is not a true "do it all" person. There is not enough time to do it all with a kid there FT unless the kid gets dragged around on errands like if the parent had the child that day. There is no way you are going to go and start to clean bathrooms when the child might be about to wake from their nap. You cannot mop the kitchen floor then realize that the baby needs a bottle and you have to walk on the still wet floor to go do that. There is a reason the housekeeper normally comes to clean while people are out of the house. Obviously you have never worked a job like this before.[/quote]

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