Anonymous
10/13/2013 03:15
Subject: List of duties
nannydebsays wrote:Let's see:
Full childcare (playing, feeding, dressing, diapers/toilet training, logging daily activities, etc.)
Transport to activities and school (4 or 5 days a week)
All child related cooking and meal prep, including packing school lunches
Weekly grocery shopping, using comprehensive list I created
Research on child related activities and classes
Dishwasher duty daily
Kid laundry 2 - 3 x per week
Empty trash/diaper genies
Other errands, from Target runs to returns of parent purchased items
Let dog in/out
Feed and water dog if needed
Keep house generally tidy
Manage housekeeper and other service providers
Sort through and manage the toy mountain
Keep kid clothes seasonally appropriate and help with purchasing new items as needed
Vacuum main kid area 2x a month
Doctor visits for kids as needed and prescription pick-ups
Volunteer at kids school
I probably left some things out, but generally speaking this is what I do weekly. And I still manage to have a good 1.5 - 2 hour break during naptime every day!
I consider my job to be mostly childcare, with a generous side dish of making the family's life run more smoothly. My employers have always been loving parents who work long long hours and want to be able to focus on their kid(s), not on doing dishes and laundry, when they aren't working. Frankly, I see nannies without that sort of "pitch-in" attitude cycling through jobs every year, and that doesn't appeal to me at all.
I try to be the sort of nanny I would want to HIRE if I were the high-powered executive seeking childcare.
This is the kind of nanny who gets paid a premium with routine raises, because her pitch-in attitude has made her indispensable to her busy employers. As an MB, I too have seen a lot of lazier/prima donna nannies cycle through jobs with great frequency, because, from the perspective of the MBs I hear about it from, the nanny just doesn't add enough value relative to other child care options once the kids hit the toddler stage.
nannydebsays
10/12/2013 21:56
Subject: List of duties
Let's see:
Full childcare (playing, feeding, dressing, diapers/toilet training, logging daily activities, etc.)
Transport to activities and school (4 or 5 days a week)
All child related cooking and meal prep, including packing school lunches
Weekly grocery shopping, using comprehensive list I created
Research on child related activities and classes
Dishwasher duty daily
Kid laundry 2 - 3 x per week
Empty trash/diaper genies
Other errands, from Target runs to returns of parent purchased items
Let dog in/out
Feed and water dog if needed
Keep house generally tidy
Manage housekeeper and other service providers
Sort through and manage the toy mountain
Keep kid clothes seasonally appropriate and help with purchasing new items as needed
Vacuum main kid area 2x a month
Doctor visits for kids as needed and prescription pick-ups
Volunteer at kids school
I probably left some things out, but generally speaking this is what I do weekly. And I still manage to have a good 1.5 - 2 hour break during naptime every day!
I consider my job to be mostly childcare, with a generous side dish of making the family's life run more smoothly. My employers have always been loving parents who work long long hours and want to be able to focus on their kid(s), not on doing dishes and laundry, when they aren't working. Frankly, I see nannies without that sort of "pitch-in" attitude cycling through jobs every year, and that doesn't appeal to me at all.
I try to be the sort of nanny I would want to HIRE if I were the high-powered executive seeking childcare.
Full childcare (playing, feeding, dressing, diapers/toilet training, logging daily activities, etc.)
Transport to activities and school (4 or 5 days a week)
All child related cooking and meal prep, including packing school lunches
Weekly grocery shopping, using comprehensive list I created
Research on child related activities and classes
Dishwasher duty daily
Kid laundry 2 - 3 x per week
Empty trash/diaper genies
Other errands, from Target runs to returns of parent purchased items
Let dog in/out
Feed and water dog if needed
Keep house generally tidy
Manage housekeeper and other service providers
Sort through and manage the toy mountain
Keep kid clothes seasonally appropriate and help with purchasing new items as needed
Vacuum main kid area 2x a month
Doctor visits for kids as needed and prescription pick-ups
Volunteer at kids school
I probably left some things out, but generally speaking this is what I do weekly. And I still manage to have a good 1.5 - 2 hour break during naptime every day!
I consider my job to be mostly childcare, with a generous side dish of making the family's life run more smoothly. My employers have always been loving parents who work long long hours and want to be able to focus on their kid(s), not on doing dishes and laundry, when they aren't working. Frankly, I see nannies without that sort of "pitch-in" attitude cycling through jobs every year, and that doesn't appeal to me at all.
I try to be the sort of nanny I would want to HIRE if I were the high-powered executive seeking childcare.
Anonymous
10/12/2013 16:13
Subject: Re:List of duties
Anonymous wrote:I think the reason that some of the nannies on here finger point at the nannies who don't do any chores is because they are secretly envious that they don't have their jobs. Who wouldn't??
Caring for young children is a huge job in itself. Preparing meals, feeding meals, changing diapers, potty training, bathing children, dressing children, supervising children, keeping them entertained, educated, clean, well-rested, happy and safe is physically, mentally and emotionally draining....But rewarding as well (!) To add cooking, cleaning, laundry and shopping duties as well as pet care on top of that is just slavery in my opinion.
I currently care for a one yr. old and while he naps I do the common sense things like pick up his toys, wash the dishes/bottles I used for his meals/drinks as well as eat my lunch. Sometimes he naps for a few hours and I can rest too or read a few chapters in a book. Or sometimes he will only sleep an hour because he has a poopy diaper so I have little downtime. It's all par for the course.
The parents understand that I am there to care for their child.
If they need driving duties, they can hire a chauffeur.
For cleaning duties, a maid.
For laundry duties, a laundress.
For cooking duties, a private chef.
To organize the closets, they can call a professional organizer.
The reason I was hired is to provide childcare.
If you are a nanny who refuses to drive her charge, your usefulness to the family will be pretty short-lived. Oh well, there are infants born every minute. Non-driving nannies who don't even do their charge's laundry are pretty low on the totem pole of nanny hierarchy.
Anonymous
10/12/2013 12:42
Subject: Re:List of duties
Or, PP, perhaps the "nannies" who find bathing, dressing, and changing kids so taxing they can't throw in a load of laundry just aren't very good at their jobs. Those of us who take our jobs seriously are easily able to multitask and keep the household running smoothly while also doing everything you mentioned.
Anonymous
10/12/2013 12:21
Subject: Re:List of duties
I think the reason that some of the nannies on here finger point at the nannies who don't do any chores is because they are secretly envious that they don't have their jobs. Who wouldn't??
Caring for young children is a huge job in itself. Preparing meals, feeding meals, changing diapers, potty training, bathing children, dressing children, supervising children, keeping them entertained, educated, clean, well-rested, happy and safe is physically, mentally and emotionally draining....But rewarding as well (!) To add cooking, cleaning, laundry and shopping duties as well as pet care on top of that is just slavery in my opinion.
I currently care for a one yr. old and while he naps I do the common sense things like pick up his toys, wash the dishes/bottles I used for his meals/drinks as well as eat my lunch. Sometimes he naps for a few hours and I can rest too or read a few chapters in a book. Or sometimes he will only sleep an hour because he has a poopy diaper so I have little downtime. It's all par for the course.
The parents understand that I am there to care for their child.
If they need driving duties, they can hire a chauffeur.
For cleaning duties, a maid.
For laundry duties, a laundress.
For cooking duties, a private chef.
To organize the closets, they can call a professional organizer.
The reason I was hired is to provide childcare.
Caring for young children is a huge job in itself. Preparing meals, feeding meals, changing diapers, potty training, bathing children, dressing children, supervising children, keeping them entertained, educated, clean, well-rested, happy and safe is physically, mentally and emotionally draining....But rewarding as well (!) To add cooking, cleaning, laundry and shopping duties as well as pet care on top of that is just slavery in my opinion.
I currently care for a one yr. old and while he naps I do the common sense things like pick up his toys, wash the dishes/bottles I used for his meals/drinks as well as eat my lunch. Sometimes he naps for a few hours and I can rest too or read a few chapters in a book. Or sometimes he will only sleep an hour because he has a poopy diaper so I have little downtime. It's all par for the course.
The parents understand that I am there to care for their child.
If they need driving duties, they can hire a chauffeur.
For cleaning duties, a maid.
For laundry duties, a laundress.
For cooking duties, a private chef.
To organize the closets, they can call a professional organizer.
The reason I was hired is to provide childcare.
Anonymous
10/12/2013 06:29
Subject: List of duties
take the youngest to music lessons, cook family meals nightly, grocery shopping, dishwasher, laundry, dog and puppy care (including feeding, occasionally walking, cleaning up after the puppy, etc), prep kids' lunches, make snacks for my boss for the week, supervise homework, pick up CSA box weekly, and other errands. my bosses are great, so i don't mind running around all day.
Anonymous
10/12/2013 02:34
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't have extra tasks aside from childcare. The baby takes 2 naps so I have 3 hours of downtown. I have lunch and then nap for about an hour and after that I read/study. I love my job and love that I don't have any chores
You sound proud of being paid more than you're worth. They could replace you in a minute for a $15/hour nanny, that would happily do the basic task of baby laundry.
I only work 14 hours/week so my take home pay isn't very high. My MB told me what she wants me to do with those 2-3 hours to myself is to rest, exercise, talk on the phone, whatever will recharge me so that that I am at my most energetic, most patient, and cheeriest for her children. She loves to see me spending that time studying, since she figures it will ease my evening workload and help me get more sleep for the next day. I have worked for 3 different professor/teacher families and they have all had the same expectations for me as my current job. I've also worked for families who expected me to do SO much and I will never work for those families again. I think it all depends on what is expected and agreed upon. Caring for children is tough work...mental as well as physical.
That explains a lot. A 14 hour a week job is really more like a steady babysitting gig than a professional nanny position. Most full-time professional nanny jobs have a much broader scope of work, because the number of hours that the parents are away from home requires that more parental/meal prep/house manager-type duties be outsourced.
Anonymous
10/11/2013 21:52
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those who cook dinner for the kids- do you decide what to make or does MB tell you what to cook?
I decide before I do my weekly shopping trip, but I clear new foods with my MB.
I tell our childcare provider what we'd like for dinner.
I hope you pay her for that service?
I think she just had a knee jerk reaction to the haughty nanny with the audacity to make decisions without direction. The nerve
and PP needed to let it be known that SHE is the HBIC in her house 
Anonymous
10/11/2013 21:38
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:I don't have extra tasks aside from childcare. The baby takes 2 naps so I have 3 hours of downtown. I have lunch and then nap for about an hour and after that I read/study. I love my job and love that I don't have any chores
And the point is???
Anonymous
10/11/2013 21:34
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Most of you are maids who also take care of kids.
That's for sure.
Anonymous
10/11/2013 21:31
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Those who cook dinner for the kids- do you decide what to make or does MB tell you what to cook?
I decide before I do my weekly shopping trip, but I clear new foods with my MB.
I tell our childcare provider what we'd like for dinner.
I hope you pay her for that service?
Anonymous
10/11/2013 21:29
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Most of you are maids who also take care of kids.
no shitt!
Anonymous
10/11/2013 20:53
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't have extra tasks aside from childcare. The baby takes 2 naps so I have 3 hours of downtown. I have lunch and then nap for about an hour and after that I read/study. I love my job and love that I don't have any chores
A graduate student who can't spell.
Why comment on the thread? You aren't contributing, you aren't answering the question.
"Babies laundry"
Babies = plural for baby
Baby's= belonging to baby
Aha. Thank you for correcting me. Only a statistics student would have such awful spelling and grammar
Anonymous
10/11/2013 20:43
Subject: List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I don't have extra tasks aside from childcare. The baby takes 2 naps so I have 3 hours of downtown. I have lunch and then nap for about an hour and after that I read/study. I love my job and love that I don't have any chores
A graduate student who can't spell.
Why comment on the thread? You aren't contributing, you aren't answering the question.
"Babies laundry"
Babies = plural for baby
Baby's= belonging to baby
Anonymous
10/11/2013 20:41
Subject: Re:List of duties
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I don't have extra tasks aside from childcare. The baby takes 2 naps so I have 3 hours of downtown. I have lunch and then nap for about an hour and after that I read/study. I love my job and love that I don't have any chores Plus I am paid $21/hour. I am a graduate student and have often nannied for professor families. I've noticed that they don't expect any duties besides childcares. I don't even do the babies laundry.
You sound proud of being paid more than you're worth. They could replace you in a minute for a $15/hour nanny, that would happily do the basic task of baby laundry.
I only work 14 hours/week so my take home pay isn't very high. My MB told me what she wants me to do with those 2-3 hours to myself is to rest, exercise, talk on the phone, whatever will recharge me so that that I am at my most energetic, most patient, and cheeriest for her children. She loves to see me spending that time studying, since she figures it will ease my evening workload and help me get more sleep for the next day. I have worked for 3 different professor/teacher families and they have all had the same expectations for me as my current job. I've also worked for families who expected me to do SO much and I will never work for those families again. I think it all depends on what is expected and agreed upon. Caring for children is tough work...mental as well as physical.
This is hilarious...or would be if it were true. You only work 14 hours. What's that, two days at 7 hrs a day? Three days at 4 and a quarter hours? Let's be generous and say two days at 7 hours. You want us to believe that you need three hours a day to recharge you so you can be cheery, energetic and patient for the four hours you actually work? Not to mention you earn $21/hr for not working almost half your day?
If this were true, you would be the laziest nanny on these boards with the dimmest employers in the world. You would also like us to think there is more than one irresponsible family (because professors don't make a lot of money) who have paid you to do, essentially, nothing.
No. I don't believe it, troll.
Fine. You caught me. You’re special. Whatever.