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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel very fortunate that my daughter has a great nanny.  She is well-educated, knows a great deal about childhood development, is kind, loving and funny with the baby, is never late and is kind of amazing about thinking up solutions to problems/issues we have encountered over the last year.  She never seems to be in a bad mood and our child loves her.  She does all child-related duties - including shopping for ingredients to make homemade baby food and all kitchen clean up, baby's laundry and ironing, cleaning up baby's room and playroom, leaving the house exactly as she found it.

And I mean, she leaves the house exactly as she found it.  If I leave a coffee cup on the table that is where it is when I come home.  I think she would step over any article of clothing DH or I may have dropped before she'd pick it up (never actually happened but you get the picture).  Any time we leave a few dishes in the sink, she puts them to the side and washes only the baby's dishes, pot and pans, bottles, etc.  She hand washes everything, dries and puts the dishes away and has never opened our dishwasher.  For herself, she brings her own lunch and never even uses a drinking glass in our house.

While we agreed that her only duties were to be child-related, it sometimes bugs me that she won't move my used coffee cup from the table to the sink or stick in a load of laundry for DH and I that is sitting in the basket next to the washer when she is done with the baby's laundry.

Please know that I have no intention of firing her and do thank my lucky stars that we found her.  But am I wrong to feel bugged?   [/quote]

I'm a nanny and I understand what you are saying and agree with it, partially. I've worked for a long time with a number of families and I will always pick up something that I find on the floor when I come over. I understand life and people don't leave a mess on purpose, but it depends on the family of course. If the house is a total mess all the time, I probably wouldn't have started with them in the first place, but lets pretend I did then I wouldn't try to clean up, it's not my job. But if it's like the families I have worked for over the years, those who keep a near house and take care of their own things, if I come over and notice a coffee mug on the coffee table I will happily just drop it in the sink. I have no problem with that, don't consider it cleaning or being a maid, and don't expect extra pay or special recognition. I don't see that little thing ever becoming an issue where the family purposefully leaves coffee mugs around for me to clean up. Now would I go out of my way to clean the blinds or vacuum a whole floor? No, and I can see how that might become a thing where the family expects me to do it if I start randomly vacuuming the house every Wednesday or something. But I think it's a little strange that a nanny would step over a sock that got dropped or a play around a mug left on a table instead of just helping out and moving it. [/quote]

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