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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Imagine if you were the parents, running around all weekend but the whole time worrying about having the house in pristine condition before your nanny arrives Monday morning. That's a miserable prospect! You're supposed to make their lives easier, not harder.[/quote]

I made this mistake with my first nanny. I stupidly hired someone with no housekeeping tasks. I would get up at 5 am every morning to make sure that the dishwasher was unloaded for her and organize the toys every weekend. She would sit on the couch reading for 3 hours everyday. We let her go and hired a nanny/housekeeper who is a 100% better nanny and does light housekeeping.

While we never leave a sink full of dirty dishes, it makes such a difference having someone unload clean dishes and load in rinsed dishes. It also makes a huge difference having someone who does all laundry and grocery shopping. She still gets more than an hour break everyday but she doesn't feel entitled to sit around doing nothing for 3 hours a day. [/quote]

Once again, not the issue at hand. OP does her duties during the week whatever they may be. The issue is the parents not resuming the role of responsible adult on the weekend, and leaving a huge mess to clean up when she returns. I don't think OP is referring to a few dishes here and there, the occasional full trash can, or some toys the kids left out. We're talking about when you come in on Monday and it is painfully evident that no one has lifted a finger all weekend; 3 days worth of dishes overflowing in the sink, every single toy the kids could possibly have played with strewn about, and a truly overflowing trash can, or worse yet trash lying about exactly where it was used. This is what we are complaining about, and this is what is not fair. Yes it's the weekend, and yes you may be busy, but you aren't above rinsing your own dish and putting it in the dishwasher on the weekend. It takes 2 seconds to throw your trash in the garbage, and a couple of minutes to take out a full trash bag. If your kids are old enough to pull out their toys on their own, they are old enough to put them away and teaching them to do so is still your job as a parent even if you pay a nanny to do it during the week. [/quote]

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