Nanny share - how to deal with holidays

[Hadeda]

We have a nanny but my DDs start school/nursery in September so we are setting up a nanny share from then.

I'm trying to work out how we deal with holidays. At the moment our nanny chooses two weeks and we choose two weeks. How do we work the parent selection in a share? My thought so far is that our nanny chooses two weeks and each family has one week they can choose. If, as families, we can co-ordinate to choose consecutive weeks that's great but if it doesn't work out we each have one week "reserved". Does anyone have experience of this, and does my idea sound reasonable?

Yes that sounds reasonable. I presume you are already deciding that your nanny does not need to work on bank/public holidays, so nanny has those off in addition to the 4 weeks.

Yes, that sounds reasonable. We tend tk all talk beforehand to see if we can make it work, but flexibility only goes so far. Having said that, we've been able to manage holidays ok so far.

Thanks both, glad to hear this sounds workable. And nannynick - yes, our nanny does have bank hols off and has the days between Christmas and new year as well as the four weeks leave.

The only thing to think about is if one of you choose one week but the other family don't then the nanny will not actually have that week as hoilday. So are you planning on taking a weeks al when the other family have their week off so the nanny gets her 4 weeks?

Thanks eeyore12 - yes, our nanny would be on leave for the week each family chose, so the "non holidaying" family would have to take leave or make another plan. I think, for that reason, holiday will have to be something we all discuss at the beginning of the year. But my split above is the fairest way I could think of to be sure all 3 parties were able to choose some dates themselves.

The reason our nanny has to choose 2 weeks is partly because that's fair, but also because her husband's job is one where his employer allocates his leave and he cannot choose the dates at all. So to be sure they get a 2 week holiday together she needs to be able to choose her 2 weeks.