Anonymous wrote:OP here. My sons priorities are school, practicing their instruments and extracurricular activities. This is why I am outsourcing.

I played varsity sports, was in NHS, participated in theater and was a Presidential Scholar in fine arts. I also did my laundry, walked the dog, cleaned up the cat shit, cooked for myself, carpooled with friends until I bought myself a car, oh yeah, and worked on Friday and Saturday nights. Your boys are spoiled and lazy, and apparently, so are you.

$17/ hour for 2 kids for 4 hours a day isn't attractive even if she didn't have to do any of the other stuff.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My sons priorities are school, practicing their instruments and extracurricular activities. This is why I am outsourcing.

What are your priorities OP? Do you do anything? Do you not think it your job to prepare your sons for life? Unless you plan to provide for the forever, 20-something's right out of college tend to be unable to afford a butler. Who will do their laundry?????

Anonymous wrote:OP here, ignoring the negativity. If I eliminate pet care and maybe change it to just "occasionally feeding cat & changing water" (eliminate changing litter) does that make it at all more attractive?

No it doesn't OP. you can ignore negativity, but don't ignore reality. You are asking for a lot of things outside of the scope of most nanny jobs (some nannies do some of those things, it'd be near impossible to find someone who does them all), not allowing enough time to do it all, and your pay is not attractive for the scope of duties you are asking someone to take on. $15-$17/hour would cover the basic childcare aspects. $18 would cover that and a couple extra things (family laundry, etc). If you want one person to do all of those things, you need to make the job full time, guarantee the hours, and you're looking at $20/hour likely. Or, and here's a novel idea, you could teach your sons to do something for themselves and you could pay a college kid $15/hour from 3-7 to supervise and drive your TEEN boys around, and you/DH could do some things for yourself too!

Anonymous wrote:OP here, ignoring the negativity. If I eliminate pet care and maybe change it to just "occasionally feeding cat & changing water" (eliminate changing litter) does that make it at all more attractive?

No, you need to eliminate half of the cleaning or up the rate. Also take into account the amount of hours to successfully accomplish these tasks. what has me most concerned is that your almost 15year olds need so much supervision and seem to be unable to do simple tasks for themselves, like letting the dog out. Do your kids have special needs or behavioral issues? Because you would need a nanny able to handle that and it will cost you more.

Well I didn't agree with the calls of troll until the last post. Now I call total troll.

OP here. My sons priorities are school, practicing their instruments and extracurricular activities. This is why I am outsourcing.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, ignoring the negativity. If I eliminate pet care and maybe change it to just "occasionally feeding cat & changing water" (eliminate changing litter) does that make it at all more attractive?

No. It does not. Are you being purposely obtuse? All of the things you are asking for are things that you need to be teaching (frankly, you should have already done this by age 10) your sons to do on their own.

OP here, ignoring the negativity. If I eliminate pet care and maybe change it to just "occasionally feeding cat & changing water" (eliminate changing litter) does that make it at all more attractive?

Anonymous wrote:Make it $20 an hour with guaranteed pay and you will likely find qualified applicants.

I agree that the kids could do their own laundry and pet care but if I have someone come to my home and help with cleaning, if I pay for laundry and it is discussed beforehand I see no problem with a nanny doing it.

The problem isn't whether a nanny can do it, its why can't your kids do it. You could pay someone to do almost anything for you or your kids, but your job as a parent is to teach your kids to take care of themselves. Even if they grow up to be able to afford someone who does it all for them, that's different than never learning to do it yourself. This woman is setting her boys up to be someone's ex-husband/dead beat dad/30 year old living in mom's basement kind of men.

You are correct, 1:46. Total troll.

Make it $20 an hour with guaranteed pay and you will likely find qualified applicants.

I agree that the kids could do their own laundry and pet care but if I have someone come to my home and help with cleaning, if I pay for laundry and it is discussed beforehand I see no problem with a nanny doing it.

Anonymous wrote:I call troll. AND, this is the first time I've done that. Surprised I'm the first.

I didn't get the troll vibe from OP. Just someone who watches too much TV and doesn't know what a nanny does.

I call troll. AND, this is the first time I've done that. Surprised I'm the first.

You're looking for more of a housekeeper. A nanny wouldn't want this type of job, they do more childcare and there is hardly are childcare in your description. It also seems like a lot of stuff crammed into a short amount of time.

I do think its bazzare that you won't clean the kitchen after dinner. Are you handicapped or incredibly lazy?