Anonymous
07/16/2014 08:01
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What county are you in, OP?
We are in Arlington County.
Oh, so you know it's illegal there?
Why are so many people on DCUM so snarky. I was merely posting a question. I don't understand all the snarky responses. I am familiar with the regulations. So long as the nanny share is in compliance with the regulations, we would not need a family daycare license
Which regulations are you planning to follow? Or are you just trolling here?
Anonymous
07/16/2014 07:17
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
I don't think that you are really prepared for the challenges of a share. Your line of questioning is all "me me me" and a share just doesn't work that way. You're going to have to compromise. You're not going to have everything your way. Everything may not be 100% equal all of the time, but you should purposefully set it up to be that way (nanny doing housework at your home during time you share with another family). You need to consider if this is really for you. If you're just looking to save money, while basically expecting to have your own personal nanny, you will be disappointed.
Anonymous
07/16/2014 07:13
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What county are you in, OP?
We are in Arlington County.
Oh, so you know it's illegal there?
Why are so many people on DCUM so snarky. I was merely posting a question. I don't understand all the snarky responses. I am familiar with the regulations. So long as the nanny share is in compliance with the regulations, we would not need a family daycare license
Telling you the truth isn't snarky. You may call their office yourself if you want further clarification. They specifically told me that nanny shares are illegal in Arlington.
Anonymous
07/16/2014 01:50
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What county are you in, OP?
We are in Arlington County.
Oh, so you know it's illegal there?
Why are so many people on DCUM so snarky. I was merely posting a question. I don't understand all the snarky responses. I am familiar with the regulations. So long as the nanny share is in compliance with the regulations, we would not need a family daycare license
Anonymous
07/15/2014 23:34
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I just found a nanny to take care of my DD who is 4 months old. She is open to doing a nanny share for a higher salary. How does a nanny share work? I would prefer the share being in my house (thats why I hired a nanny in the first place). Are people open to that or do people usually alternate or split houses? Also if the share is in our house would it make sense for us to split her salary evenly or would one of the families in the share pay more? We would be prepared to babysit after the nanny is gone for half an hour to an hour while waiting for the other family to pick their child up. Also our nanny said she is willing to do some light housework for us. Again how would this work with splitting her salary? Also would the family that is hosting the share (us in this case) be responsible for paying/preparing the food for the children? Thanks!
I can share my experience. The way nanny shares work is two families agree to act as joint employers for the nanny. You can agree on one family always hosting (easier, in my opinion) or split hosting. It's up to you. Generally the families pick one location and the nanny will see that location as her primary place of work. In our case, the other family hosted and we split the nanny's salary 50/50. If the nanny is willing to do light housework, she would do it at the host's house - in my case, it never occurred to me to pay less because housework made the house a more pleasant and clean place to be. If she's doing baby laundry, you can ask to throw in the non-hosting baby laundry and give it back to the non-hosting family at the end of the day. We always sent our own food because every family is different in what they want the baby to eat so it's easier not to mix.
Thanks this is really useful. I was thinking of a 70/30 split since its in our house but your reasoning makes a lot of sense too.
To the pp who said that its unfair that we are not giving her a choice of holidays, we had asked her and she said it doesn't make a difference to her. I think though that if we were going to do a nanny share it would make more sense to give her a choice as it would be easier.
Anonymous
07/15/2014 23:33
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What county are you in, OP?
We are in Arlington County.
Oh, so you know it's illegal there?
Anonymous
07/15/2014 23:30
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:What county are you in, OP?
We are in Arlington County.
Anonymous
07/15/2014 21:35
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I just found a nanny to take care of my DD who is 4 months old. She is open to doing a nanny share for a higher salary. How does a nanny share work? I would prefer the share being in my house (thats why I hired a nanny in the first place). Are people open to that or do people usually alternate or split houses? Also if the share is in our house would it make sense for us to split her salary evenly or would one of the families in the share pay more? We would be prepared to babysit after the nanny is gone for half an hour to an hour while waiting for the other family to pick their child up. Also our nanny said she is willing to do some light housework for us. Again how would this work with splitting her salary? Also would the family that is hosting the share (us in this case) be responsible for paying/preparing the food for the children? Thanks!
I can share my experience. The way nanny shares work is two families agree to act as joint employers for the nanny. You can agree on one family always hosting (easier, in my opinion) or split hosting. It's up to you. Generally the families pick one location and the nanny will see that location as her primary place of work. In our case, the other family hosted and we split the nanny's salary 50/50. If the nanny is willing to do light housework, she would do it at the host's house - in my case, it never occurred to me to pay less because housework made the house a more pleasant and clean place to be. If she's doing baby laundry, you can ask to throw in the non-hosting baby laundry and give it back to the non-hosting family at the end of the day. We always sent our own food because every family is different in what they want the baby to eat so it's easier not to mix.
What are your local laws?
Anonymous
07/15/2014 21:31
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Anonymous wrote:I just found a nanny to take care of my DD who is 4 months old. She is open to doing a nanny share for a higher salary. How does a nanny share work? I would prefer the share being in my house (thats why I hired a nanny in the first place). Are people open to that or do people usually alternate or split houses? Also if the share is in our house would it make sense for us to split her salary evenly or would one of the families in the share pay more? We would be prepared to babysit after the nanny is gone for half an hour to an hour while waiting for the other family to pick their child up. Also our nanny said she is willing to do some light housework for us. Again how would this work with splitting her salary? Also would the family that is hosting the share (us in this case) be responsible for paying/preparing the food for the children? Thanks!
I can share my experience. The way nanny shares work is two families agree to act as joint employers for the nanny. You can agree on one family always hosting (easier, in my opinion) or split hosting. It's up to you. Generally the families pick one location and the nanny will see that location as her primary place of work. In our case, the other family hosted and we split the nanny's salary 50/50. If the nanny is willing to do light housework, she would do it at the host's house - in my case, it never occurred to me to pay less because housework made the house a more pleasant and clean place to be. If she's doing baby laundry, you can ask to throw in the non-hosting baby laundry and give it back to the non-hosting family at the end of the day. We always sent our own food because every family is different in what they want the baby to eat so it's easier not to mix.
Anonymous
07/15/2014 20:30
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
What county are you in, OP?
Anonymous
07/15/2014 20:29
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Oh, really, you are worried about a young child eating that much food. Have the other family send food for their kid, but again, pay extra if nanny is only preparing for your child.
Anonymous
07/15/2014 20:28
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
You pay more if you are tacking on extra duties beyond the kids. That is really crappy not to allow her choice of any holidays.
Anonymous
07/15/2014 20:09
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Please do a search.
Anonymous
07/15/2014 19:56
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
Also how would vacations work? Our plan was to give her paid vacation for 13 days of our choosing (basically whenever we take our vacation) and also paid federal holidays and 7 days of paid sick leave.
Anonymous
07/15/2014 19:53
Subject: How does a nanny share work?
I just found a nanny to take care of my DD who is 4 months old. She is open to doing a nanny share for a higher salary. How does a nanny share work? I would prefer the share being in my house (thats why I hired a nanny in the first place). Are people open to that or do people usually alternate or split houses? Also if the share is in our house would it make sense for us to split her salary evenly or would one of the families in the share pay more? We would be prepared to babysit after the nanny is gone for half an hour to an hour while waiting for the other family to pick their child up. Also our nanny said she is willing to do some light housework for us. Again how would this work with splitting her salary? Also would the family that is hosting the share (us in this case) be responsible for paying/preparing the food for the children? Thanks!