Trying to create a balance with maid/childcare
Sorry this is a maid question. My family had domestic help in the UK when I was growing up, I just had a nanny for DD whilst I was there for six months having various medical treatment but never had this problem.
Our maid in Dubai is really upsetting me.
She keeps on taking my child off me. I tell her no but then she tries again minutes later. I cannot do anything in the house as if I put her down for a second (I would normally let her run around the house supervised of course) the maid whisks her up and takes her in the garden or worse still walks off to the park!
I've told her not to take her to the park without asking, she still does it. In a five minute period when I was cooking dinner whilst holding my daughter I told her not to take her three times and eventually ended up having to physically push her away as she was pulling my child out my arms!
I do ask for some babysitting from her, plus she does baths as I recently had a back injury that I risk reoccurring from that kind of leaning and lifting. So I can't tell her not to touch my child. But at the same time she is completely imposing herself all the time.
I give her jobs to do but as soon as she has finished them she doesn't ask if I need anything else doing just goes and takes my daughter out again without asking. I am spending half my time looking for things to keep her busy. I'm getting to the point of wanting to 'send her to her room' which seems unreasonable but I don't know what else to do.
The weird thing is that he last family she worked for didn't even have any kids!
So the questions are, is this common and to be expected with maids in Dubai? Has anyone else had this problem and been able to deal with it and how? Or is this person just not the right maid for me and should I look for someone new? Thanks.
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