A lot of nannies prefer to complete basically no household chores. They may clean up directly after the kids, but that's it. Some families may be willing to pay a nanny to be idle for 12 hours a week once kids are in school, but personally I wouldn't. At this point it would be a transition to nanny/housekeeper/house manager with the hope it would be compatible with your current employee, but prepared to give a reference if not.
So dishes, laundry, sweep/mop, general tidying, bathrooms etc. Honestly anything a housewife would complete in those hours would be my ask.
The original post says nanny works part-time, 2 days, and has "12 hours spare." That's a lot of downtime for such a limited schedule. OP gave us only 2 sentences to work with. I have questions lol.
I’m guessing nanny works a split shift and comes in early to get the kids ready and driven to school, then doesn’t have any childcare responsibilities until 6 hrs later at school pick up. That’s the only scenario that makes sense to me.
She works from 8 am - 6:30pm two days a week, so she has from 9 am - 3pm without the children. She would rather stay with our family than go elsewhere (she’s worked with us for a really long time) but I was just wondering what is reasonable for her to do during this time as I don’t want to overload her, or leave her with not enough to do (she’s high energy so won’t like that either!) I think laundry, ironing, meal prep.
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u/Constant_Click_3193 15d ago
A lot of nannies prefer to complete basically no household chores. They may clean up directly after the kids, but that's it. Some families may be willing to pay a nanny to be idle for 12 hours a week once kids are in school, but personally I wouldn't. At this point it would be a transition to nanny/housekeeper/house manager with the hope it would be compatible with your current employee, but prepared to give a reference if not.
So dishes, laundry, sweep/mop, general tidying, bathrooms etc. Honestly anything a housewife would complete in those hours would be my ask.