01.30.07
Nannies are Not Maids
This is part of the series:
- The Ideal Maid
- Why isn’t Your Current Maid Perfect?
- Why Is My Maid So Bad?
- How to Have the Best Maid
- What do You Want From Your Maid?
- Laundry and the Maid - not
- How Often Do I Need A Maid?
- What Kind of Maid -
Cleaning Services? - Which Maid to Hire - The Family Service?
- Which Maid to Hire?
- Networking Your Way To A New Maid
- Maid Contest from Lysol
- Nannies are Not Maids
- The Interview For A New Maid
- Salary for the New Maid
- Cleaning Supplies for the New Maid
- The Maid and Her Mop
- Cleaning Fluids
- Preparing For The Maid’s Arrival
- It’s Important Not to Let Your Kids Torture the Maid
- Training the Maid
- Trash and the Maid
- Does a Maid Destroy Your Child’s Character?
- Potty Talk - Cleaning the Bathroom
- Rules for the Maid
- Penni’s Story
- Cleaning the Bedroom
- Is My Maid Stealing?
- More Trash and the Maid
- A Welcoming Bathroom
- Another Dee Story - Children Terrorizing the Maid
If you’re new - I wrote the How to Hire A Maid like a book. Click Table of Contents for future articles and links to old blogs in a more comprehensible order – or just click here & go to the bottom to read it straight through.
It really helps if you figure out your Maid’s goals. before hiring her.
You thought the caste system in India was rigid?
In the 4 months between my daughter’s attendance at full-time kindergarten and the birth of my son I came up with the idiotic plan of allowing my fabulous Nanny to take the place of the maid. In my defense, Bella normally kept the house sparkling. I came home to everything in its place and a clean kitchen.
Bella understood that I really didn’t want to pay her for a full week when I only needed her for 2 ½ hours a day. Taking the place of the maid while the children were at school seemed perfectly reasonable.
Wrong. The status of the Maid is infinitely below that of the Nanny. After 4 months of a filthy house I discovered that she had been so embarrassed that ‘she hadn’t even told her husband that she was cleaning toilets.’ Even jobs she had cheerfully done on a voluntary basis as a Nanny, took on a demeaning status when she did them as “The Maid.”
