Nanny Employer Blog

While we are experiencing some negative impacts of the economy, there are also some great positive benefits our client families can take advantage of right now! One tremendous benefit is the increased nanny pool. We are seeing an influx of extremely qualified caregivers who are seeking immediate employment. At Mom’s Best Friend, we pride ourselves on the quality of our candidates and the thoroughness of our background screening. In previous years, we have had to do extra recruiting to find those fantastic candidates. Today, that is not the case. A number of experienced, veteran nannies that may have lost their job due to one parent deciding to stay home or losing their job are now on the job market. What a wonderful time to find a supernanny!

Our nannies all appreciate the opportunity to work and the ability to make a difference in the lives of the children and parents they work for. These individuals have a heart for service and a desire to walk side by side with their employer to help ease some of the additional stress they themselves are feeling by competently and lovingly caring for their children (and home). In addition to childcare, nannies often take on some of the household management and coordination. Because of the contracting job market, we are seeing nannies becoming more flexible in regards to hours, duties and compensation than ever before.

My nanny is a superstar and handles such extra tasks as: arranging for and supervising household repairs, household organization, creating a weekly Excel spreadsheet/schedule for the family, grocery shopping and meal planning, some cooking, errands, cataloguing family photos, decorating for the holidays, taking the cars for maintenance, helping with the kids’ schooling (she’s a teacher!), packing, travelling with us, and so much more.

Let one of our many Mom’s Best Friend Super Nannies help make your home life easier!

A nanny manager is useful to a family in so many ways, and the school year only makes her usefulness more evident. She handles not only childcare duties but necessary household functions as well. These can include basic errands like picking up the dry cleaning, going grocery shopping, and making trips to the post office; household chores like washing laundry and planning basic meals; and extra duties involving the children such as organizing after-school activities and providing supervision and extra security if your family decides to travel during a school holiday. In short, she has a great deal of work to occupy her time while the kids are at school, thereby justifying her full-time status. A nanny manager provides added value by helping to eliminate distractions that would usually reduce the amount of time you spend with the most important people in your life, as well as the amount of precious time you have to let yourself recharge.

A full-time nanny manager may not be in everyone’s budget, but a cost-effective option is to share her services with another family, thereby cutting the cost of a nanny manager in half. This is an especially appealing option for neighboring families whose children attend the same school and have, more or less, the same schedule. You can capitalize on those parallel schedules and let one nanny manager take all the kids to school and pick them up together. Of course, this also might mean a little extra effort on your part in coordinating your nanny manager’s schedule with another family. You will have to negotiate how she allocates her time while the children are in school and afterschool childcare arrangements. However, you will find the benefits of hiring a nanny manager still far outweigh any potential challenges entailed in sharing her services.

In closing, I just want to add that we always appreciate your feedback and love to hear your comments and questions about our services. We will always do our best to give you the best possible options we can, whatever your needs may be.