Nannies - What Extra Duties Do You Do?

I don't price it in either. My theory is I am there to make the family's life as smooth as it can be. So I work very hard to make sure that not only are the children happy and healthy, but the parents lives are made easier by my helping as much as I can. My reward is appreciation from the whole family in bucketfuls, and a real sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. I LIKE my job, I think that makes it so much easier to do it to the very best of my ability.

dont price it...

its more, im there it needs doing, I do it and dont think any more of it

LOL just look for a knackered old hag on Tuesday LOL

meant to say I dont price it in . I would be earning a flippin fourtune if I was .
Child development officer (nanny)
plumber
maintenance
basically I am my mum bosses wife, LOL

They never ask they just say thank you . The way I look at is ,shes a working woman and so am I so any help I can give I am happy to do it. Why should the washing machine be empty and her have to do it at the weekend seems crazy to me . Besides its a pain in the bum to seperate washing . The post office parcel thing is fine ,and shopping for presents and food . Some ones got to do it . I am 42. I have my own DS (8) and Dh so I run my own home ,I think I just think in a different way than the younger nannies, No direspect intended.

To what extent to do you think more experienced nannies are 'pricing in' this type of stuff to their rates - say, based on experience, that loads of parents out tehre seem to expect it even without expliciting stating it?

This is unbelievable. Do you guys MIND all this? And how do the parents ask - are they at all abashed/tenative?!

It's not that i'm thinking of taking this up. My husband and I were embarrassed to ask our nanny to go and collect a package for us from the post office, but were forced to because otherwise it might have gotten sent back to Asia as we'd been travelling and couldn't wait to the weekend. This is the extent to which DNs have had to do something outside DD duties.

I'm not saying I'm a saint (not infrequently 20 min late at night) though. But this stuff is just an eye opener.

I do lots too, 99% of it is great fun so I don't mind at all! Many things are random but the most consistent things I do are:

-menu plan, write grocery list, cook family meals including at least one main meal for them to have at the weekend

• research all manner of things from holidays to strollers to preschools to effective ways to toilet train/get toddlers to eat veg, etc! Implement or recommend stuff based on my findings.

-have started thinking about a home school curriculum as my charges are v clever and love art/music/cooking etc so I'd like to foster that enthuseasm while it's there and start doing projects with them (plus the parents are v academic-minded and although I hate too-early academia as such, I do think a structured activity once or twice a day will be good for them)

-feeding and grooming and loving the cats (LOL that's therapy for me)

• keeping toddler twins from biting/hitting/throwing toys at each other when we are housebound cos of snow and/or -30 windchill

Plus I am at college too, as well as working FT. So I have relaised that I won't be sleeping til some time in 2012.

I love my life

Have youngest child live with me 4 nights a week when house got flooded . Do their washing at mine when said house got flooded . Its all coming back to me now . LOL

I have helped them move house/ pack and unpack etc

When the decorator was getting behind in the holiday house i spent an entire evening stripping wallpaper.... and another entire eveing in the shower removing the grout from over all the tiles of the mosaic sized tiles... took for ever

Take Dogs to vets / Doggy Hair-dressers
Dog sit when they are away
Feed dogs etc

sort out probs for builders

Drive tractor / Quad bike around their holiday farm

As a competetant yachts person have helped DB sailing his yacht... doing fenders, tying up the boat, taking the helm, winches etc.

Sort out the chickens, let them in / out / feed them and chase away foxes.

Im sure there are laods more things i have during the past 8 years that arnt conventional nanny duites.

Sent you an eamil on your work address .

Yeah ok to a meet up . why not, could be nice to meet up with a male nanny get a different perspective on things .

Oh just wondered why . Im always up early .I have to be up 630 on a week day to leave at 7 30 to take my DS to school and then start work .So weekends my DS dosnt lie in GRRRRRRR so I get up as its not fair on him if hes used to getting up so early on a week day .

hijack . nick why are you on mn so early on a sunday morning .

Power washing patio . Didnt realise how hard it would be untill I started and then I had to finish the bloomin job I started . LOL

Hersham near Walton on Thames .

Good lord. I wouldn't expect my nanny to do anything other than look after DD.

She's only part time with us now, as DD is off to school next week, but she has other parents who expect her to dump the babies/toddlers in their cots so she can do housework/bake anniversary cakes/get coffee for them etc. I'm always at this - she's not a PA/housekeeper/butler.

I keep telling my mum boss that I am her wife LOL .