Do you expect your maid to wake up earlier than you?
My son (2-yr-old) drinks milk at 9:30 p.m. every night and then sleep. My maid will be free after feeding him.
Normally she has to finish the job which she has not yet completed (such as washing milk bottle, throw rubbish, clean kitchen... etc.) and then she will take bath at 10:30 p.m./ 11:00 p.m. and she will sleep around 12:00 a.m.
Next morning, my son will wake up at 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. and then go to school at 8:30 a.m.
My maid will not wake up until 8:00 a.m. Even my son sometimes wakes up earlier at 7:00 a.m., my maid will keep lying on her bed until 8:00 a.m. (she sleeps in the same room with my son and I'm sure she knows that my son has woken up because I have a baby monitor and I can hear that she has waken up but still lying on her bed). Then my son has to play on his bed until 8:00 a.m. Sometimes he will cry for milk or biscuit (I think he feels hungry).
Normally I'll wake up at 7:30 a.m. Sometimes, I feel a little bit upset when I think "how come my maid can sleep more than me?" "How come I wake up everyday and find that the water is not yet boiled so no hot water to drink in the morning?" etc…
When I go into my son' room after washing up, my maid is feeding my son with milk, dressing him up with school uniform in a hurry but it's obvious that she has not yet brushed her teeth nor cleaned her faces!
Do you think I'm too harsh to ask her to wake up a little bit earlier, say at 7:00 a.m. or 7:30 a.m.?
normally my maid will finish all the house work around 8 and then take shower. My son will sleep around 9-9:30. She will talking phone or listening music and then sleep around 10:30pm. She MUST wake up whenever my son's awoke. Usually my son wakes at 7-7:30.
Can you let her to sleep earlier at night and request her to wake up at the same time as you r son?
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After seeing all your reply, it seems that my maid is a little bit lazy!
Actually she is free after 10:00 p.m. and I will not ask her to do any housework after 10:00 p.m. If she can finish her routine job earlier, she can go to bed at 10:00 p.m.
She only needs to take care of my son and do some routine housework:
8:00 a.m. - wake up, feeding baby with milk, dress him up (I always ask her to teach him brushing teeth but she claims that time is so hurry and cannot do this!)
8:40 a.m. – send baby to school
9: 15 a.m. – back home, cooking lunch for baby, boiling soup, hand washing baby’s clothes (only handkerchiefs, socks .. etc, small accessories). Other thick clothes of baby will be machine-washed. Fold the dried clothes of baby. Clean baby’s toys, baby’s room
She will go to fresh market once a week in the morning after she has sent baby to school.
11:45 a.m. – pick up baby from school
12:15 p.m – back home
12:30 p.m. – feeding baby, watch DVD with baby
1:30 p.m. – take bath for baby
1:45 p.m. – baby sleeps for 3 hours, she will do some routine housework, cook dinner for baby (for me 3 hours is already very useful to do lots of things!)
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. – baby wakes up, feed him fruits/ snack, play with baby
6:00 p.m./ 6:30 p.m. – feed baby with dinner
7:00 p.m. – cook simple dinner for me only (my husband stays in China and will only be at home one night per week).
8:00 p.m. – I’ll have dinner (my son will sit with me together and she will feed him some rice).
8:30 p.m – I’ll play with my son and she will wash the dishes, throw rubbish.
9:30 p.m. – feed baby with milk and my son will sleep before 10:00 p.m.
10:00 p.m. – she will be free but I find that she has to continue to do the housework which she has not yet completed until 11:00 p.m. and then she will sleep at around 12: 00 a.m. (actually I don’t know why she is so busy at night! What does she do during daytime? Why she saves the housework and do it at night?)
Basically there is no need for her to take care of my husband and me (I do laundry myself, hang/ fold/ iron the clothes myself, I clean my rooms and computer room myself, sometimes I arrive home earlier and I will prepare the dishes myself and she just need to fry the food (for me it only takes 10 – 15 mins but she needs 1 hours to cook rice and fry 1 simple dishes!)
I expect her to do the following every day/ month but the truth is that she can’t:
Clean toilet every day (she can only clean it every 3 or 4 days)
Clean baby’s toys every day(she can only clean it once a week)
Clean the microwave oven every time after use (she will only clean it when I find it dirty and I have to remind her)
Clean the ventilation fans every week(she will only clean it when I find it dirty and I have to remind her)
Clean windows every month (she can only clean them once per 2 months)
Sometimes I think maybe I should keep one eye open and one eye close, then I will not be upset!
meowmi ,
I think ur situation more or less are same with me, the day time routine work almost same as my maid but she will finish the job after wash dishes, throw garbage, clean kitchen at the latest by 9:00pm and then she take bath then she sit & watch tv with us, sometimes i want her to play with my son more, but her eyes always watch on the tv...i complain to her that she should play with baby more...but still..not much different, and my baby suppose sleep the same room with her, everynite i will "tum" baby to sleep while she is still watching tv, then at the midnite, sometimes 3, 4, 5:00 am, my baby will come over to my place to sleep, then i need to feed milk to him again...sometimes i think my maid is lazy and let my baby come to my place to sleep so that she can sleep more comfortable without look after him!!!
I think your maid is a bit lazy.For my last maid, she do all the household works you have mentioned plus clean the window every month, iron all the clothes everyday, chnage bed linens every month,wash kitchen every month, clean toilet every dayetc. and that was when my son still a small baby. By the way shee need to feed my cats early in the morning and clean cat box a few time each day, comb the cat's hair everyday. When my son went to school at 2 years old , she vacuum the floor every day, mop the floor twice a day etc. She still have time watching TV with us. Moreovershe took care of my son when he's sick like checking temperture at night feeding midicine.
Now my son is 5 years old now and I change to an Indo-maid. she is also doing quite good with a lot od free time during afternoon and after dinner. But so far the hous is clean and tidy I dn't mind she have more free time.
meowmi,
your situation is very similar to mine. My daughter is 3y & my husband stays in China for 4-5 days a week. I have simple dinner as well. My bun sleep at
11:00pm at wake up at 7:30. I promised her I will give her 8 hours to sleep but I never have 8 hours to sleep.
Your bun is better than mine. I don't need her to cook lunch for bb because bb has big lunch at school. But bun said she do not have time to cook lunch for herself & she always buy ready food to eat.
Both bun are the same. If you tell her to do something, they will do. If you don't even something is dirty. They will pretent they do not see it.
I would like to remind you try to teach yr bb brush teeth at night before sleep. Dentist said it is not important for bb to brush teeth in the morning. But it is necessary to brush every night. My daughter brush her teen since she was 2y. If sometime, your bb is lazy & don't want to brush teeth. You can give bb wet cotton to bite.
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