OMG my temp nanny who has 28 years experience left me this note in the diary.......

[theoriginalmummypoppins]

' DS was disappointed that no one was able to watch his rugby match today. He said what is the point of having parents if they never come to see me '

you WILL find the perfect nanny apart from me

Of the thousands of kids and young people I have taught over the past two decades, some had crap parents, some good parents, some were well cared for, some not, and you know what? There was no pattern or rhyme or reason at all, looking back. Not social class, not employment, not gender, nuffink. Although IME if a household has enough money coming in, kids do a bit better on balance.

Oy Blondes, I am coming over to help nurse your household. I am bringing some whisky and a first aid kit and letting you get out for an hour.

pmsl

im off today but welcome to come to my house with whiskey

i could have done with you yesterday, esp as baby only slept 30mins (normally 2) and woke up grumpy, coldy and teething and then the last 4hrs of the day (3pm - 7pm) were hell with a misreable tired, ill, clingy baby - as well as 2 others

but thats what i am paid for

yes group hug is good.

I had a long chat to my temp nanny last night. She confessed to taking our ironing to the ironing service because she says its too much for her to get through when the children are at school all day.

She says as well as a full time live in nanny and a cleaner for 12 hours a week we need a sep ironing lady for about 6 hours a week too.

Im not quite sure what she thought she would be doing all day long as she has fed the children on either ready meals or jacket potatoes everynight and not once tidied the playroom or their bedrooms !!

I think she thinks my bank balance is akin to that of posh and becks . .

what the fuck

are you serious MP?

so your children are at school all day and after school runs nanny is prob there 9.30-3ish and cant manage to do general nanny duties of tidying playroom/bedroom and some ironing - of maybe one hour a day (if 6hrs a week)

who will be paying for this ironing service?

we have an ironing lady, and sometimes i will take stuff to ironing shop (as i dont iron) or mb asks me if i can drop off sheets etc to be ironed - BUT your nanny is meant to iron

how long has she got left at yours?

18 hours !! LOL

Not quite sure who is paying. I will see when she has balanced the kitty and buggered off!

I genuinely thought she was joking!

But alas not........I would not expect my nanny to iron if she had little children all day long and I know its harder in the hols when the children are at home but she has just covered for 2 weeks of term time.

£25k a year for a live in before and after school nanny job.........any takers ??

Do you change your clothes hourly or something?

She is a lazy mare and I hope you don't give her a reference! What has she been doing all day? I work 31hrs over 4 days looking after two toddlers ( and 5yo in school hols ) and manage to do all the childrens ironing, clean both bedrooms, Hoover the kitchen and playroom daily, cook meals from scratch on top of going to toddler groups and entertaining two busy little people. The cleaner takes 4hrs to do my bosses ironing for the week and it's no small pile! Thank goodness your nanny is leaving!

as the children are older the nanny could manage to iron for an hour while they play games/go in garden/watch tv/eat lunch etc

is your nanny coming back (think you said she was ill?) - how long is this temp here for? Do you really need to find a new nanny?

She is surely taking the piss. I have four kids (three at home, one at uni locally but loafing in and out), and when I am at home with them all (as over the summer, for example) I manage to get two of them to and from school, do everyone's washing, some ironing and so on, check their homework, teach them music, and cook simple but good food from scratch every evening plus bf a baby.

I also do a bit of light gardening if I am out there (eg deadheading flowers), ensure the car is clean and full of petrol, and help DH with his job a bit sometimes. I do have help cleaning the house and doing a bit of the ironing, but that's mostly due to being partially disabled at the moment and having problems with my joints.

I think she's lazy.

if you have help with cleaning/ironing boffy - then you have time free to play/spend with your dc

I would I would I would - in fact when you were having ishoos about 18 months ago I used to hang round wishing you needed someone when I'd just graduated so I could study my postgrad part-time and do your job because it would have been perfect! And you sound like a lovely, reasonable employer (and I don't have a thing about dishwashers). But alas I am getting married and buggering off to the other side of the world

perm nanny is on compassionate leave for a month and has been fab. Im not sure she will come back. I think boyfriend not too happy about being left all week on his own whilst she lived in with us.

New temp starts on Monday. Lets see.

This temp said I should take a week off work and see if I could cope with it.......I pointed out that at one stage I only had a cleaner for 5 hours a week and I had a 2 year old an 8 month old a 50 hour a week job and we were renovating the house. In those days I did all the washing and ironing for the whole house around work the children and the decorating !!

Congrats Frakula.where are you going ????

so if she doesnt come back, she has to give you a months notice and obv come back and work that

sounds like you may be on the hunt again

Blondes. nanny resigned as she wanted to claim income support whilst she was off so I said she needed gives us notice. I have said I will keep job open for a month and then review.

surely if you resign from a job you arent entitled to income benifit?

your gonna need it - sounds to me that nanny def wont be coming back

La Reunion - sort of between Mauritius and Madagascar. Not much call for nannies out there though!

correction.....I said she didn't need to give us notice

frakula......is there is a call for nannies i nice 5 star hotels that people like me can cant afford

"DS was disappointed that no one was able to watch his rugby match today." Did the Ds actually say these words or was the nanny just editorialising? So she tears out the geography homework and farms out the work she's being paid to do while she has absolutely nothing else to occupy her... She has a lot of hostility towards you, (maybe judgmental about you heading out to work despite the fact that this is what earns her her bread and butter?) and doesn't seem to know how to deal with homework. You could maybe get rid of her by saying you won't report her to whatever agency you got her from if she'll drop the demand to keep the job option open.

Math....no thats the way the temp nanny has behaved not the permanent one........!!!!

You should take a week off work and see if you can cope with the demands of driving to and from school twice a day? Blimey - sounds exhausting! How on earth does the poor woman cope?

I'd think you'd have nannies biting your arm off OMP - compared to a lot of nannying jobs, it doesn't sound terribly demanding

where di you get this temp from?

did you pay an agency fee?