AIBU: parents working from home

[LondonNanny90]

Hi everyone - first time poster so please go easy!

As you may have guessed from the name, I'm a nanny. I'm late 20s, have been doing it for 5 years now and enjoy my job.
I left my last role as the kids were at school full time and I was no longer needed as much - the family was fantastic and we're still good friends, I see the children regularly.
However I think I may have just got lucky with that job, as the two I've had since have been awful.
I accepted a job a few months ago as a SOLE CHARGE nanny to a 2 year old girl - only to find the parents worked from home at least 3 days a week (absolutely no mention of this at interview). While I appreciate flexible working hours etc and I'm sure it's great to be able to work from home, unfortunately it's preventing ME from doing MY job. Little girl behaved horrendously whenever the parents were home, including screaming for them nonstop while they were working upstairs. She was an angel whenever they were out of the house.
I'd manage to distract/calm her down, and one of the parents would appear to check everything was alright, or to make a cup of coffee, or just have a chat. I wanted to tear my hair out! I brought it up with them and they said they'd try and work in the office more, but no change.
Eventually I handed my notice in and told them the exact reason - their response was "perhaps we should find a more experienced nanny". INFURIATING.

Accepted another "sole charge" role a few weeks ago (after checking carefully at interview that there'd be no working from home issues) and surprise surprise - during my first two weeks the parents worked from home no less than 9 out of the 10 days I worked.
I don't have children so maybe I don't understand but it is so, so, SO frustrating to just want to get on with your job and to be prevented from doing so constantly. Do parents not realise that their kids turn into little horrors when mum/dad is home? It seems that more and more jobs are like this nowadays.
You'd think the easy solution would be to take them out, which I do, but there's only so much time we can spend out of the house especially when there's batch cooking/laundry/tidying to be done.
AIBU in feeling so frustrated and angry? Tempted to hand my notice in but I need this job. Already mentioned to parents that it's not helpful for them to be at home and they were a bit offended. Not sure what to do.

I'm a nanny OP and YANBU.

Not that it's a problem if they do choose to work from home or there job demands it, but there absoloutley has to be a clear boundary so that you are in charge and the kids know they cannot just demand their parent's attention whenever they want. Your employers should enforce this. It's also really difficult to bond with the children with their parents around all the time. If you are working then you should be the one in charge and your say-so goes.

My boss is hardly ever at home but when she is it can be a little frustrating, not that there's someone else around as such, but if my charge asks to do something (i.e. The other day wanted to make a glitter bath bomb when I had half an hour to go until the end of my shift and had just done all the tidying up) I said no and explained why. She ran straight to her mum who said she could. Because mum was in the house she had the final say even though I was trying to do my job. It's really infuriating.

And posters saying 'you are in the wrong job' maybe don't understand a huge amount about how nannying actually works.

*their job

Thank you Harriet! Yes trying hard to be polite over here...suspect a lot of posters may be parents that work from home ;)

The thing is it can work fine with certain children/parents, where there are strict boundaries,kids know what to expect and aren't particularly clingy etc.

But you can't demand not to be disturbed and then interfere and say oh let them pop up for a bit,and expect both nanny and children to be happy with that and understand the rules.

It's also not unheard of for parents to then complain to the nanny because they "had" to let the kids in or come downstairs.

As a past nanny now teacher i totally understand where u r coming from! Ive been lucky that all my jobs have stuck to what they stated, and if parent is at home they r away and child doesnt notice, i can be extremely difficult when parent pops in and out and child is confused, parents need to be very clear on arrangements before u start job! And it can be frustrating if not or line is blured