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I feel like with a many anything baby related could be fair game if they have the time (say maybe during naps). So, baby laundry, washing bottles, preparing snacks?

I cleaned the kitchen, washed and folded baby laundry (twins so a TON! haha), and vacuumed the downstairs where the kids and I spent most of our time. I don't remember if I was asked to do it or if that just seemed appropriate to me. Most of it was done while the kiddos were sleeping.

I've been a nanny for years, and think light housework, especially with napping babies, is part of the job. Cleaning up after themselves and the kids, including putting toys away. Any meal prep and clean up, including washing bottles. Dishes, wipe the counters and table, sweep the kitchen. Vacuum the living room when there's time. Folding kids laundry is totally reasonable, as is switching to the dryer or starting a load that's already ready to go with your settings on the washer. Things like watering the garden, grabbing the mail, taking out diaper trash, etc, with kids in tow of course, are also reasonable.

I have been a nanny before fir a couple of families and that was something that was always pre negotiated on while we were discussing pay, vacation, and sick time. One family had me strictly doing child care (with no cleaning duties) and I was free to work on my online classes or watch tv during nap time, and the other family requested I nanny/clean and paid me more for it.

When I started as a nanny with my last family my only duties were to put dishes in the sink and pick up toys. By the time I left three years later (and many raises later ) I did a load or two of dishes a day, meal prep, bottles and pump parts, 90% of the laundry and grocery shopping, picked up the house, etc. By then they had three kids and I was more a combo nanny and housekeeper. So I think any amount is fine as long as it's discussed. It wasn't hard to manage all the extra work. It was like being a SAHM mom, except way easier. BUT if a kid had a hard day or was sick or something I would let everything go and spend the day focused on just that. And their parents' response to that was always gratitude for their child's care and reassurance that housework wasn't important. So.

She watches DS2 30 hours a week. He naps 2-3 hours a day. She also watches DS1 one full day and two days after school from 330-545. She's responsible for cleaning up after meals, tidying up toys at the end of the day, and the kids laundry (washing, folding, put away). However, the laundry task sort of morphed into doing ALL the laundry. I tend to run it all and then she folds during nap time/ puts away. She also will run the vacuum/swiffer and even clean toilets if she thinks it needs it (and if DS2 is having a particularly long nap). She's a unicorn though. We are very lucky.

ETA mine also will do some grocery shopping/errands when asked. She's really up for anything. My kids don't need constant kid activities, sometimes errands and chores have to get done!