To think my cleaner shouldn’t bring her own child to work?

You seem to be missing the point that if a family is poor, they can still have items brought for them from other family members and/or friends.

Or stealing….. don’t forget that!!

You assume a lot of stuff don’t you! The OP says the cleaner is trustworthy after all.

Again, the cleaner is surely much more likely to break something, than a child of 10 sitting still for a couple of hours a week, during just the summer holidays?

So, do you think OP has asked for the cleaners insurance?

I don't know.

Just as no one knows the DM's financials or her childcare situation or if she is a single parent and many, many other assumptions pp's have made.

So you know how that the IPAD was paid for by the DM? Or just more whataboutery on this thread?

Just why would you even say it?

It’s basic common sense and necessary. In this situation the cleaner hasn’t asked if her child can stay at the OP’s house whilst she works there so I don’t think she’ll be declaring if her kid breaks something.

I wasn't hinting at anything, I outright said that the cleaner might not be struggling as much as some pp's think since her child has an ipad which don't come cheap. This was in response to agreeing with a pp about responding to someone suggesting a box of crafts and colouring stuff for her daughter like the OP's cleaner is some kind of charity case.

No I wasn’t, in the context of this thread it was a ridiculous comment to make.

It was an awful comment to make. It's very clear the point you were hinting at.

I clearly disagree. That's exactly what you were trying to do though.

It is not a valid point. Ah, the old ‘thread police’ jargon.

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It's a valid point considering the assumptions the cleaner is poor. You aren't the thread police.

She really should’ve asked. The arrangement is that she comes to clean your home, not that she brings any friends, family, children or pets etc with her for the duration so she certainly should’ve never have assumed that you’re fine with a child sitting in your living room for a few hours. That said, it’s clear she has no childcare options, that she’d probably not be able to work if she couldn’t bring her child, and that she’s being responsible by not leaving her alone. You have to weigh up how good she is as a cleaner and if you’d want the hassle of raising this and potentially losing her. The delicate way to raise it might be to say something like, ‘Has your daughter always come to work with you during the holidays? I didn’t realise this was going to happen. We need to discuss it as I work from home and there will be some days that this won’t work for me.’

It was a ridiculous and judgemental statement and has no place on this thread.

It’s stupid to be so overly anxious that you can’t risk assess.

Do you honestly think OP has checked the insurance of her cleaner, who is more likely to break or steal something than the 10 year old?

Really?

Some people think poorer people shouldnt have televisión or mobile phones and wear rags too, but that doesnt make them right. We are not living in the 18th century anymore.

I think it is when several pp's have assumed that she can't afford childcare and as I was responding to, suggesting OP to give her snacks and a box of colouring stuff and the such like.

Absolutely agree with you!

Or maybe now that her child is older, she is simply just trying to avoid paying for holiday clubs in the summer.

It could be several things and isn't necessarily that the cleaner can't afford childcare. Especially since she's cleaned for OP for a year and this is the first school holidays where she has seen the child.

That’s right but mentioning an iPad is pretty redundant.

Here's some new for you too. Most responsible parents (which the cleaner clearly is) would talk to their children and tell them not to be touching anything in someone else's house. The girl is sitting on a couch, she's not racing round like a toddler. You seem to be another one who imagines danger/accidents everywhere.

Even if you pay a decent rate, cleaning is usually unstable work. 2 hours here, a journey to the next one then another two hours etc etc. Probably no paid holidays or national insurance. It's not the same as a monthly wage where you do the same job for 40 hours a week. I always say that is can be a lot to pay but not much to earn.

Yes, why wouldn't I. If someone is working at my house, I wouldn't care a less

The narrative is that she has brought her child to work and that, presumably, if she didn’t have to do that, she wouldn’t. The OP can either choose to be kind/ compassionate or not. She may find herself having to do the cleaning herself but hey ho.

There is only a certain amount of hours that a home cleaner can do, it is a vigorous job, full on from start to finish, even very fit cleaners would find 8 hours/3 clients extremely hard work in a day.