Asking me to make her lunch and give her medicine

[Excitedforeaster]

How would you feel about this?

I tutor/homeschool for a girl, a few hours per day, a few days per week. I arrive, set up our work, we work together at the table for the three hours, I give her the homework, pack away and go. The parents work, but come and go, sometimes they’re in the room, other times at work or out shopping, exercising etc.
Today, the mum said she’d be out and would only arrive half an hour after she left…she asked me to make the girls lunch..soup and rice (soup heated up on the stove and rice needed to be made) before I left. She then asked me to give her some medicines she has at a set time.

I don’t mind doing the girls lunch etc or medicine, but I’m not sure how to feel about this? Would you say this is part of the job, would you mind doing it/being asked to do it?

You're not a Nanny! Or her private chef.

Just say no.

What if she sneezed when you were putting in the eye drops and you jabbed her in the eye?

You need to put in some proper boundaries now or this will just get worse... The Mum is totally taking the piss.

Presumably if the op was from one of these countries where any employee is basically an all round servant who must bow and scrape and perform any task no matter how unrelated to their actual employment otherwise they will lose their job, she would have just cooked the meal and administered the medication and never thought twice. She felt it was odd or not appropriate, which implies it is not the norm in wherever she is for a tutor to be asked to perform personal care.

WTF? We know the OP is under some European jurisdiction other than UK.

Lots of "advice" here is very specifically based on UK law and habits. I gave example of another EU country, illustrating why the UK advice is not generally applicable.
Technically, more countries in EU are based on Roman law system than commonlaw system.

I am not saying she has to do the cooking, but the refusal probably won't be based on "insurance" or "governing bodies". It might be something like "I was specifically hired by the EX for teaching, so it won't be right to spend the time here cooking" or "our agreement is about teaching, let's leave it like that". Quoting law of another country won't help her, she would look absurd and clueless.

In the same time, teaching and leaving 11 yo alone might be totally normal in her country, OP wasn't questioing it at the beginning herself and refusing to do so based on some strangers online won't help her.

It is not about bowing and scratching. Just being aware that the "facts" presented here are totally useless.