Anonymous wrote:Our nanny has been with us 12yrs. We pay her for 45hrs a week. Starting next week our kids will be back in school 35hrs a week. She cleans and meal preps. However we do have a house cleaner that comes weekly , but our nanny does basically what a SAHM would do. Groceries, picking up, organizing, laundry, costco, sweeping, keeping clothes rotated, oil changes, errands....ect. I come home at 5 and assemble the meal she has prepped. I come home to a clean house and kids who have completed their homework.she runs our house like a well oiled machine.

Of course, after 3 infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and now older children the job has evolved and changed. After a 12yr run, clearly we both are pretty happy,I can see employing her for at least another 6 years. She knows how to keep a good job and it's not because she hasn't been recruited by other families over the years.

You found an awesome longterm nanny!

Anonymous wrote:Op here
Wow kids lAundry and cooking them dinner are just part of my duties! Hahah us sometimes I run the swifter over the floor. But I'm not scrubbing it. I do what a mom does during the day. I don't do my bosses laundry. Oh and also I'm paid amazingly well so I don't complain about how much I have to do durning the day. Is it not okay to complain about house work at home??

No. You make the other nannies feel insecure.

Op here
Wow kids lAundry and cooking them dinner are just part of my duties! Hahah us sometimes I run the swifter over the floor. But I'm not scrubbing it. I do what a mom does during the day. I don't do my bosses laundry. Oh and also I'm paid amazingly well so I don't complain about how much I have to do durning the day. Is it not okay to complain about house work at home??

Our nanny has been with us 12yrs. We pay her for 45hrs a week. Starting next week our kids will be back in school 35hrs a week. She cleans and meal preps. However we do have a house cleaner that comes weekly , but our nanny does basically what a SAHM would do. Groceries, picking up, organizing, laundry, costco, sweeping, keeping clothes rotated, oil changes, errands....ect. I come home at 5 and assemble the meal she has prepped. I come home to a clean house and kids who have completed their homework.she runs our house like a well oiled machine.

Of course, after 3 infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and now older children the job has evolved and changed. After a 12yr run, clearly we both are pretty happy,I can see employing her for at least another 6 years. She knows how to keep a good job and it's not because she hasn't been recruited by other families over the years.

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Anonymous wrote:This sucks OP.

I don't understand since you took the time to prepare their food, while you didn't make enough for yourself as well. That way you could have stayed and enjoyed it.

Your bosses suck for making you cook a whole meal, then not allow you to share it.

It's pretty messed-up to make someone cook, then not allow them a morsel of food afterward.

Im sure they would be fine with me staying and eating with them but honestly I've been there since 7:30 and want to go home!
Come sept I'll probably pre make meals. But it's not just dinner. There are days when like mentioned I do laundry all day or wash the floors and the whole time I'm thinking I am just going to go home and clean the floors or do a bunch of laundry again.
Does anyone else find it easier to cook clean and keep up with laundry at work vs at home?? I know for me it's so much easier. I know I'm at work for more time during the week so that's probably why! Anyways back to folding Elsa underwear

Yikes OP, seems there are more job issues here than with the cooking part.

I don't think cooking an elaborate dinner each night, scrubbing floors and doing laundry are typical duties for a nanny. It sounds like they want a chef/chambermaid/nanny all in one deal.

I have been a nanny for many years and seriously, cooking is not my forte. Let's just say that my microwave is like my fifth limb. I cannot even properly boil water. And I am just a wreck using a washer and dryer that are not my own. I once had a MB who blamed me when her dryer went kaput saying that it worked fine the day before. Ever since then, I have refused to do laundry on the job. I only do childcare because that is what a nanny is.

The best families to work for are those who stress that they only want you to focus on their child(ren.) Because that in itself is a HUGE responsibility in itself. If they need someone to wash the floors, they can hire a maid. If they want someone to wash, dry, fold and put away laundry they can either ask the maid or hire a laundress. In my town, we have a fluff and fold laundry service in many laundromats where they charge $3.00/lb to wash and dry clothes. Sadly, some people get their nannies to do this for them for free.

Anonymous wrote:This sucks OP.

I don't understand since you took the time to prepare their food, while you didn't make enough for yourself as well. That way you could have stayed and enjoyed it.

Your bosses suck for making you cook a whole meal, then not allow you to share it.

It's pretty messed-up to make someone cook, then not allow them a morsel of food afterward.

Im sure they would be fine with me staying and eating with them but honestly I've been there since 7:30 and want to go home!
Come sept I'll probably pre make meals. But it's not just dinner. There are days when like mentioned I do laundry all day or wash the floors and the whole time I'm thinking I am just going to go home and clean the floors or do a bunch of laundry again.
Does anyone else find it easier to cook clean and keep up with laundry at work vs at home?? I know for me it's so much easier. I know I'm at work for more time during the week so that's probably why! Anyways back to folding Elsa underwear

I try to prep in advance as well. I tend to do a fair amount of cooking and prep on Sunday and then package up lunches into grab and go containers with dinner being reheated for whatever I made on Sunday. Or else throwing some greens in a bowl and tossing preprepped stuff on top. Some weeks are busier than others and I don't get a chance to prep stuff and end up going out but I try and get something half way healthy like taqueria tacos or something. I agree op it's a pain to do a bunch of work then go home and do it all again when you're tired.

Lunch is my largest meal of the day. When I get home, I eat something quick and easy, such as some hummus and veggies, salami and cheese, or some soup that I cooked over the weekend.

I prefer to keep my evenings free of "work".

Have something healthful and easy on hand at home. I always have a few frozen vegetarian dinners and the makings for a quick protein shake in my house for exactly the same situation.

This sucks OP.

I don't understand since you took the time to prepare their food, while you didn't make enough for yourself as well. That way you could have stayed and enjoyed it.

Your bosses suck for making you cook a whole meal, then not allow you to share it.

It's pretty messed-up to make someone cook, then not allow them a morsel of food afterward.

Anonymous wrote:I get it. I hate doing tasks at the NF house when I know I need to do them at my own home. Doing their laundry and being too run down to do my own when I get home.

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Ugh this totally! There is nothing worse than doing laundry or other chores all day at work and know you have the same to do at your house!

I get it. I hate doing tasks at the NF house when I know I need to do them at my own home. Doing their laundry and being too run down to do my own when I get home.

I'm including clean up in that time. Some days are fine. Just complaining today. Must have caught it from the 6 year old! Glad you have a husband to cook dinner tho!!

Prep your dinners in advance. You don't need to cook for hour and a half!! I plan meals for me and husband in advance, get everything on weekends and usually he gets home before me so I call and ask him to start the oven, the grill, the pot with water or what have you.... Make it easy in yourself!!!

Making my Charges a healthy balanced dinner That i taste tested thru out... only to go home so tired and sick of cooking that I pull into McDonald's for a nasty cheese burger.
That or go home and cook for another hour and a half.. ah the perks of the job!! TGIF tomorrow