Nanny Employer Blog

Believe it or not, summer is just around the corner! You probably want to get through one week of Spring Break first before starting to mull over visions of kids at home and how to entertain them for 3 months! Beginning in April, we start to get an influx of wonderful caregivers whose aim and talent is to do just that! Many are teachers who need a summer job or students home from college who are looking for the right opportunity to spend their sunny days creating memories with your little ones.

If you’re like me, you start clipping out and saving ads for camps that look like they might pique the interest of your kids and keep them active for at least a portion of their day. Many people don’t think of hiring a nanny as your own personal entertainment director! There are so many local activities that we don’t have time to take advantage of during the busy school year and can use summer as a chance to be a tourist in our own backyard with our very own “staycations”. Kids also enjoy the chance to have a voice in what they would like to do and the flexibility to be spontaneous and not “locked in” to a certain activity on a certain day.

The advantage of hiring someone with an educational background is the opportunity to use summer as a teaching or learning enhancement time. Whether it be a budding reader needing phonics practice or an older child fascinated with the everyday miracles of Mother Nature, they can enjoy the luxury afforded by a less harried pace, enabling exploration and expansion of their personal knowledge base.

At Mom’s Best Friend, we want to help make this opportunity more affordable for families struggling with the current economy and have thus lowered our placement fee to a flat $900 (usually the equivalent of $100 per week) for the entire summer. We hope that you will take advantage of this great offer and our growing base of fantastic, highly qualified candidates to start the process of finding your wonderful MBF summer nanny!