What Is The Best Way To Find A Nanny?

How To Find A Nanny

To Provide The Very Best For Your Children

Raising children is very likely the most challenging thing you will ever do in life. It will make having gotten that 4 year college degree seem like a cakewalk. It will make your full-time employment seem like a well deserved recess break from your middle school days. Raising children well is indeed an accomplishment, and it will help you appreciate all the sacrifice that your parents made for helping you get that cushy salaried career.

Raising and caring for your children will require plenty of love, your children will accept nothing less than all of your time, and your children will demand only the very best of you. Fortunately, caring for your children is not an obstacle to be overcome, it is not a milestone to be crossed off your bucket list, rather it is a part of living a life well lived - full of love and joy all the more.

Below we will consider how you can hire a nanny.

Why do you need a nanny?

“It takes a village to raise a child"

All of us have at one point been cared for by a second caregiver - thats nothing new. Your parents used a nanny, your manager makes full use of a nanny, your neighbors you have seen are happily married with a nanny, and its high time too that you hired a nanny. To raise a happy child, and to maintain a happy family, hiring a nanny is without a doubt a step in the right direction.

Where can you find nanny?

  • Quickly you will come to find out that there are more nannies available than you can readily sift through resumes and conduct in person interviews.

  • The barriers to entry for a nanny are so easily accessible, that anyone can create an online profile and call themselves a nanny hoping to secure a caring family to provide for them.

  • An experienced nanny sounds good on paper, but you do not want to find out too late that they have developed habits suited for a less discerning family, that their bad experiences have made them jaded, and that your children are provided food options ranking low in nutritional value.

  • Finding a good nanny will require a full time commitment from you just as if you were adopting a new member to your family.

  • Hiring a reputable nanny agency is the right way to outsource the nitty gritty so that you can focus on selecting and hiring the right nanny from a curate list of potential nannies hand selected according to your family profile and family needs.

What to consider when searching for a nanny?

  1. Are they career nannies?

  2. Do they enjoy being with children?

  3. Have they had children of their own?

  4. Do I feel comfortable with this nanny?

  5. Do they smoke, do they have any vices, and do they come from a stable background?

  6. Is my child comfortable and happy with the nanny around?

  7. Can I afford the nanny’s proposed hourly rate?

How can you select the right nanny?

Whether you have chosen to conduct the full hiring cycle for a new nanny all on your own, or whether you - like many successful families before you - have opted to hire a professional nanny agency to do the heavy lifting for you, the most important task remains: that is to select the right nanny for you, for your family, and for your children. All family parties and their opinions should be equally weighed just like hiring managers deliberate on hiring decisions. Your family is after all well run operation, and on a mission to do whats best for one another.

Selecting the right nanny is therefore the easiest thing you will do throughout the entire hiring process. If any one family member finds something they disagree with, if a nanny leaves any room for doubt, or if a nanny just doesn’t meet expectations in the slightest detail, then don’t feel shy to try try again. This is after all a serious commitment that is expected from a nanny and from your family. Rest assured that this is just a part of the process so make sure you enjoy and learn from each new candidate.

What our expert opinion is

Bryan Torres