Anonymous wrote:PP you quoted here. For morning times anything that would allow her to be off by 2pm so she could be somewhere by 3pm. 8am-2pm five days per week would preserve the 30 hours per week. Since you have the flexibility, it gives you an advantage as well because you can advertise it as such (say you are looking for 24-32 hours of help per week or whatever numbers make sense for you, then say something like times are on a set schedule and negotiable, between 7am and 4pm (or whatever times work for you)). If you still want weekend hours I think you can certainly ask that, but you might consider saying every other week or three weekend days per month (instead of every weekend).
As far as not letting Nanny drive and living in a non walkable neighborhood, this will be considerably easIer/better if your home has many options for play areas. I've been in some Nanny family homes that had a big finished basement, a living room to play in, and an extra play area upstairs plus a lovely big backyard, where it was easy to spend the entire day at home and keep the kids happy. Other nanny families had homes with a tiny sad little backyard, no basement, and only one little play area in the living room. If your home is like that you'll likely have more issues keeping kids and nanny happy at home most of the time.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Some ways you could make this more workable: If you adjusted your hours so nanny came in the mornings only, that would allow her to also take an after school position, which tend to be plentiful. If you increased the rate of pay, that would help tremendously ($22-25/hr; dealing with a toddler when his mother is present AND a newborn has a level of stress that even nannies of triplets don't deal with regularly). You could try to minimize the time you are present with the nanny, and make this clear up front. For example, you could say something like "I'll be cleaning upstairs and then preparing dinner, so please take both kids to the library, or play in the backyard for an hour so I can do that. After nap, I'll plan to accompany you with the children to the park..." Etc.
OP here. This is very helpful, so thank you PP! Can you suggest an hour range that could work for mornings only (I am flexible). We can increase the rate of pay as well. However, I was not planning on allowing the nanny to drive our kids anywhere by herself. And we do not live in a walkable area (i.e. there is nothing to walk to from our neighborhood), as we live in the distant suburbs. Do you see that as an issue? I would like the nanny to accompany us on many activities/outings each week, but we would all be going together.
Anonymous wrote:
Some ways you could make this more workable: If you adjusted your hours so nanny came in the mornings only, that would allow her to also take an after school position, which tend to be plentiful. If you increased the rate of pay, that would help tremendously ($22-25/hr; dealing with a toddler when his mother is present AND a newborn has a level of stress that even nannies of triplets don't deal with regularly). You could try to minimize the time you are present with the nanny, and make this clear up front. For example, you could say something like "I'll be cleaning upstairs and then preparing dinner, so please take both kids to the library, or play in the backyard for an hour so I can do that. After nap, I'll plan to accompany you with the children to the park..." Etc.
Anonymous wrote:I'm a SAHM and I have a toddler and a baby on the way. My husband works 70 hour weeks, works weekends, and we have no local family to help out. I would like to hire a part-time nanny to help me take care of both kids once the new baby arrives. We would like to hire someone for one year, part-time, with hours such as noon-5 pm each day. We were going to pay $20 per hour. However, this person would be working alongside me, a SAHM, for the entire time each day, taking care of one or occasionally both kids. I would be cleaning the house or preparing food while the nanny would be taking care of both kids. Would a nanny be interested in this job? Or not because she would be working alongside a SAHM? Is the pay rate fair? Thank you for your input!