Reply to When cleaning up after the kids becomes cleaning up after the adults.

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "When cleaning up after the kids becomes cleaning up after the adults."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=nannydebsays][quote=Anonymous]I think the problem here is one of degree and it may be that the various posters are closer to consensus than they think.  I really can't imagine that many parents do no cleanup all weekend, leaving two days worth of dirty dishes and trash and toys strewn about and staring at overflowing diaper pails because "the nanny will do it" on Monday.  On the other hand, some of you nannies seem a bit insecure about your chosen professional and are waaay quick to outrage when you think a fellow nanny might be getting treated like "the help."

The fact that a parent does not spend Sunday night getting the house in whatever condition the nanny is expected to leave it on Friday does not make him or her lazy or a poor parent,[b] any more than your failure to take your charges shoe shopping and research school options and purge their closets makes you a bad nanny. [/b] Parents get their fair share of the "not fun" aspects of parenting, and then some.  But if they are efficient about using their time, it will likely be a different set of "not fun" tasks than what the nanny is charged with doing.  This is reality and the norm, as is clear from the other gripe thread about how much you all hate Mondays.

Parents are not all entitled slobs looking to take advantage of nannies.  We're busy, and that is why we pay you to take over some of the more delegable aspects of raising children, including the extra cleanup on Mondays.

[/quote]

Odd, I also do the shoe shopping, the closet purging, and the school option researching. Guess I am not in any way shape or form a "bad nanny", huh?  :shock:

No one is saying all parents are slobs. What people are saying is that parents who take on the "yucky" stuff when they are in charge of their children are much more likely to RETAIN their super nanny. Parents who don't? They'll be replacing nanny every year or so, when the annoyance and burn-out get to be too much for any nanny.[/quote]

As an MB, I feel like I do my share of "yucky" stuff when I am with the kids, but I also leave plenty of less urgent "yucky" stuff that I could do for my truly great, experienced, college-educated nanny to handle on Monday.  For example, I will empty a diaper pail that is overflowing or stinky, but I don't routinely empty it on Sundays, though I do expect the nanny to routinely empty it on Friday afternoons.  That's just one of many similar examples.  Judging by how long our fabulous, college-educated, experienced nanny has stuck around, it is not an arrangement that she has a problem with.  However, if she ever developed the attitude I hear on this board, I don't think I would mind losing her, because as talented as she is, she would no longer be meeting my needs as an employer.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics