When parents do not have enough time for their child or children, that is the time to hire a nanny for their family. People want to earn more money and balance their financial strength. Because, the living expenses are increased nowadays. So, two or three members of a family should work to balance the family; then only they have a good lifestyle. So, in a city like Calgary mostly, both parents go to work; because of that parents are unable to care their child properly and they are facing so many troubles and stress. So, Hiring a nanny is, one of the perfect and ideal solution to solve this kind of problem. Most of the parents do not have a clear idea about nanny's duties and responsibilities.

• The first thing, parents should know who is a nanny? A nanny is caregiver for the child or children of a family who hires nannies for a good service.
• Then parents should know when nanny is needed. When parents are physically unable to care their child or children, then they have to hire a nanny.
• What are the benefits parent can get by hiring a nanny for them? A good nanny is the substitute of mother, so she will take care all the needs of children and parents can do their work without worries about their children. Parents stress also can be reduced by hiring a nanny.

Here are some responsibilities and duties of nanny.

• A nanny can provide care and attention for the child for the certain time which is required by parents. So, when parents hire a nanny, they have to prepare the time schedule and request her to follow the schedule. Otherwise there are chances for some problems and misunderstanding between nanny and parents. To avoid these unwanted issues be planned first.
• A nanny is not only to take care of the physical needs of the child, but also she can involve in some child development skills, such as social activities, emotional, creative developments. So your nanny should capable to develop above factors.
• Next fact is, nanny has to give the best security for the child, the child spent most of the time with the nanny than her or his parent. So, always nanny monitors the child's activities and keep the child away from physical harms.
• Another thing is, she should concentrate on child health and wealth. Provide the meals and snacks on corrected time, and keep all the place very neat and clean. Finally, she should behave decently with child or children, because there are many chances for children to learn more thing from the nanny, so nanny should be as a role model for the child.

Remember all these facts when you plan to hire a nanny. Hiring a nanny is less expensive than other options of child care giving, but there are so many benefits that parents can get with the help of nanny. Finally there many online nanny service sites and nanny agencies are providing such a fantastic service to find a perfect and trustworthy nannies in Calgary.

 

The busy parents who do not have enough time for their children, hire nannies to take care of their precious children and ensure that their children are in safe hands, with the flexibility and comfort to enjoy their childhood and develop their skills to become the best citizens of the nation. Parents in a busy city such that Calgary, Ontario are not exceptional from above statement. There are live-in nannies, part-time nannies, day-time nannies, night nannies, babysitters, occasional child caregivers and etc can be found in Calgary with the help of online searches or by referring some advertisements. Let's discuss further on why would be live-in nannies a better option than others to look after children in a city like Calgary

Main problem of  many working parents is, they have to do all the thing for their child while they are getting ready for the work, so every morning they are pressured. If they have a live-in nanny they do not want to struggle to get ready for the work, because the nanny takes care the child, (since the child wakes up to going to bed). So, parents can freely concentrate on their work. A live-in nanny always be with child, so she will be able to help to improve the child's behavior and personalty. Another benefit is, the child grows in his or her own home environment at all the times which is a healthy in terms of child psychology. At the same time having a live-in nanny is an expensive solution to care your child; you have to provide an accommodation, pay tax, insurance and your utility bills also get increased because of having an extra person in your house. Anyhow, you could get more benefits rather than the above expenses from your nanny.

Even though there are above mentioned advantages of having a live-in nanny, it is not easy to find a trustworthy live-in nanny. Parents have to put well-organized nanny hiring process in play in order to hire the BEST and trustworthy nanny for their kids. Further browsing this blog will definitely help on how to organize and hire the best nanny.

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Why do you need a nanny?
These days, both parents dad & mom usually used to have a job for themselves for several reasons. Such as, to face the financial & economical pressure, the mom may be a career oriented and may not wish to drop off her professional life for her personal life, to add up a social status and etc. This kind of situation puts kids in a position of getting lack of care and opens up a door for child caregivers (nannies, babysitters or day care centers). This is true for busy capital cities of the world like Toronto. Even though parents are duty-conscious, career oriented, earning minded, they too love their children. That creates the necessity of having someone to take care their loving and precious child.

How to hire a nanny in Toronto?
A honest nanny may fulfill the requirements or a family that is in need of her valuable support and help on taking care the children. In Toronto, parents can find all varieties of nannies such as live-in nanny (nanny lives in your home and look after your children, do household, take children to school, feed & bath children, drive children for outdoor activities and etc), full-time nanny (nanny works from 9-5), part-time nanny (nanny works part-time only, only on specific days and particular time only – it depends on what your requirements are), night nanny (nanny works on night only) and etc. However, the most important to make sure that, the person whom is going to be hired should be reliable, kind, professional, easy-going and trustworthy. To find such person, the nanny selection process should be tailored carefully.

Where to find a nanny in Toronto?
You can go with a personal reference. Especially you can select a good candidate among the qualifiers. Personal references from your friends, neighbors, co-workers, your other family members (uncle, cousins, brother or etc) are highly recommended. You can trust the referrals from them, because the potential nanny may be the one whom already worked for your friends or others, she may be more familiar to your friends or others. So, you can expect her to be more trustworthy than other strangers.

• 1. Classified advertisement : You can use the sites such as Craiglist or Gumtree or etc to post a FREE nanny wanted advertisement. If you have some money to invest, you can try to post the advertisement on your local area (Toronto) newspapers or magazines.
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• 2. Consulting a private nanny agency : This is one of the safest way to find a best nanny. A good agency will recommend a trustworthy and good nanny for your family. The parents should check out the  nanny agency profile (little research about the particular agency may help) before contact them.
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• 3. One of the most easiest and quickest way would be using internet to find a nanny in Toronto, specially search engines like Google. Just search for “Toronto nanny” - Google will list out the nannies or nanny services that help you to find a best nanny in Toronto.
   

If your are a new mother, and you are planing to go back to work so,  you should need a good nanny to look after your child. Then only you can avoid  stress around your baby.

As you're a new mother, how can you find a good nanny for your baby? Is it easy to find?
Yes, and it is not a big deal, but you should have a little bit of trust on you. If you have this quality, you will find a relevant caregiver for your precious child. You should  have to learn on how to  find a good nanny, It's simple, you can get ideas from the internet. Many moms, they like to find a nanny before they deliver the baby. After some weeks mom could be able to go back to work , and ensure that her baby has a good company.

Which is the easiest way to find a good and perfect nanny?
There are so many ways you have, to find a  nanny. The most easy way is, search from the internet. Go and switch on your computer and  access to the internet and search using popular search engines. That will take you to some nanny service site.  Sometime nanny service website may show some nannies who are living around your area. For an example, if you search for nannies in Calgary (Alberta, Canada), you may end up with the websites that offer nanny services around Calgary or the list of nannies in Calgary. Some websites give you full details about nannies such as, their experience, age, talents, former employer details, feedback on them etc. You have to select a trustworthy nanny for your child so, you should scan the nanny profile carefully and cross check it with other resources (usually such nanny service websites offer various resources for cross checking and validating information given by nannies). Other than above mentioned methods, you can ask for referrals from your friends and neighbors too.

I would recommend to visit https://www.weneedananny.ca/caregivers/bycity/Alberta/Calgary.html to find nannies in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Also, you can find nannies in other cities of Canada by visiting WeNeedANanny.ca as well.
 

Within the range of nanny types (further described later part of this article) that are often found in Calgary, live-in nannies are considered as the best. Simply because live-in nannies can offer variety of services that other nannies would not able to. Live-in nannies stay in home so available in any minute. This can be crucial in case of an emergency. (What if you are asked to come to office immediately or there is a sudden change of time and place of the office meetings, schedules etc.) If a parent is in a potential risk of some illnesses or health conditions (heart conditions, asthma etc. Hopefully not) it is recommended to have a live-in nanny rather than a live-out nanny. Also live-in nannies are capable of easily aiding child care duties as well as household work.

A live-in nanny plays important role on your home and family. Without having her services it may almost impossible to manage day-to-day work. Therefore the live-in nanny should be properly managed. To do so, it is very important to keep things in order from the beginning. Give the nanny a well descriptive document on what are the expectations and what tasks to take care, at which time. May be a time-table for each day of the week. Also if there are any regulations, keep in mind to let the nanny knows those and having it as a written description is better. Appreciate good work of the nanny and respect her privacy. It can be disappointing for the nanny when appreciation is not coming back for all the hard and good work that has been done. Also there should be an allocated time and arrangements for the nanny to enjoy her personal life. For an example to meet family, friends, partner etc. In those cases make sure to be specific about, whether the visitors are allowed to come home or not, and about time arrangements. Ask her to let you know any kind of those future arrangements well ahead in time.

Except for live-in nannies there are other type of nannies also available in Calgary, such as live-out nanny, babysitter, on call nanny and more. But as it is mentioned above live-in nannies have more to offer than other nannies. However live-in nannies may cost more, therefore determine if there is a requirement of having a live-in nanny. For an example a mother staying and working in home-office may need an extra helping hand but not a live-in nanny who stays whole time in the home.

Newspaper advertisements and notices may give many child caregivers. But we cannot be sure all the persons we find by those ways are capable of fulfilling the job requirements. On the other hand there may be a risk on contacting those people as you do not know their background properly. Look for a child caregiver through a referral of someone you know. They can be friends, neighbors, relations or someone else you can trust on. Also there are many child care giving agencies that can make the process easier. Search through phone directories or search online to find reputed child care giving agency. Often these child care services act as a middle man who connect child caregivers and parents. As they are organized to do that, picking potential caregivers through an agency would be easy and effective. Even the potential child caregivers are found, you might still want to arrange a selection process that includes at least two interviews to make sure that a child caregiver is suitable for your child and the family.

You should arrange at least two interviews for each prospective caregiver. Ask them to bring the documents to prove identity, qualifications, previous worked places and most importantly the references. Just as the caregiver you should prepare for the interview as well. Note down important things to notice/do during the interview. Prepare a question list including few tough/tricky ones to ask from the caregiver. Few examples are :

1.Why do you become a child caregiver?
2.Since When are you doing care giving?
3.Ask why, if there are any time gaps between employment
4.What are your expectations of being a child caregiver?
5.What is the worst about the job?
6.How you plan to make sure my child's well being?
7.If needed, would you be available for weekends/holidays or for extra hours?
8.How you plan to discipline the child?
9.Give example for an emergency and ask what would she do in such situations? (home is in fire, there is an intruder trying to break in, suddenly the child is sick etc)
10.Salary requirements

At the end of the interview give the child caregiver to address any problems or issues. Check all her certificates/documents are legal. Notice if there are any qualifications on first aid, CPR, driving, child care studies etc and the previous worked places. If possible contact those parents to get information about the caregiver's service. Most importantly check the references and caregiver's background. If it is not possible to hire a private investigator to check caregiver's background, check her details with local authorities. Compare the responses from caregiver from first interview with the report from private investigation officers. If there are any wrong information by caregiver, that caregiver should not invited to the second interview.

By end of that process you can have better idea on each caregiver and probably be able to shortlist the prospective child caregivers. Arranging a second interview with shortlisted caregivers is recommended. At the second interview show the agreement and discuss further on leaves, holidays and salary etc. Follow up loose ends from the first interview if there are any. After picking last few prospective caregivers, give them a trail run. Consider all the facts including reactions of the child and the caregiver during the trial run when taking the final decision of who is the best caregiver for your child and the family.
 

Nowdays everyone has to become occupied, even both of mother and father of the family has to work. So there is no one to take care of their children, That is why most of the parents hire the nannies. If you hire a good nanny that is not a problem. But if you hire a person who pretend to be a nanny, there is a problem. Because that person could harm your children and grab the happiness from your home. Let's discuss few possible mistakes by parents when hiring a nanny. So give your attention to these facts are vital when you plan to hire a nanny.

Most of the people who plan to hire a nanny make an advertisement or do a job posting in a website. The first mistake by them is that they do not tell all the requirements that they need and do not give a full description about the job. From this you may get two disadvantages, one is that,  non-qualified people may apply for the job and the other one is that qualified, good nannies may not interested in your job posting. To avoid this you have to include all the information about the job and requirements that you expect from a nanny; such as age, working days, working hours, salary, benefits, some important details about your children etc.

Other important thing is parents do not check the references. They must check the references before calling for an interview. It is better to give phone calls to her previous employers and ask about her characteristics and attitude during work. If you selected a nanny from a nanny service website then you can search her reviews in her online profile. Also, ask from previous employers about her dedication to the work and about her weakness and strengths too.

When you select a candidate, do not arrange an in-person interview instead of having a phone interview with her. Through a phone interview you can get an idea about her and see how far she matches with your requirements. Do not forget to ask questions from herself and notice how she answer the questions. Parents must think about these facts because they are searching for a person to give their children's safe.

Finding a nanny in a busy city like Toronto is a real hard task and spotting the best nanny is not easy as it is as far as there are lots of nannies in the city. You may need to follow so many screening to filter out the best out of best. By visiting https://www.weneedananny.ca/caregivers/bycity/Ontario/Toronto.html you may find a list of child caregivers in Toronto.
 

If you have the small kids and do not have the time to look after them, the best thing to do is hiring a nanny. Thinking about hiring a nanny through online nanny services is a wise decision. First of all you have to find a good online nanny service. In good nanny services, parents can search for nanny to match their requirements such as age, previous experiences, full time or part time etc. You can go through thousands of nannies profiles all over the country and select the most suitable one who fulfill your requirements.

There are some facts that you must give your attention before hire a nanny through online. These online services do not offer you the information about her family background and cannot get the information about that, was she involved in an any criminal case. But you can ask for a police report through online. You should think about this before hire a nanny because your children will live with her after you hire a her.

Online nanny service is the only way that you can find a nanny at a lower cost. You can email and ask some questions from nannies and choose the best one. When you make contact with a nanny and arrange an interview there are some things to give your attention. If you email to the nanny, use another email account which is without your name and your private details. You can easily create such an account using Google or Yahoo. After you select right candidate you can have an interview. But do not forget to arrange it on a public place, never in your home. If you are satisfied with the first interview then you can call her for the second interview which would be held on your home. Make sure to have your children with you during that interview, and you can see the reactions of the children towards the nanny. I think these facts give you a good idea about benefits of online nanny services and why are they become so popular these days.

Find a nanny in Toronto with the help of WeNeedANanny.ca
 

Because of the now days hectic work schedule you may be looking for a nanny to take good care of your child. Good nannies should have good experience on being a nanny, qualifications to be a nanny and a clear background record. But the fact is, how you are going to check all these things when you are hiring a nanny with your busy life/work schedule. May you hire a nanny without checking all her details? No, That is a risk for your family as the nanny will spend most of her time in your home. So to find a good nanny there are few ways you can take into consider.

Probably the best way to find a good nanny would be asking from referrals. You can ask from your friends/relatives if they have any referrals to a good nanny. May be a good nanny that worked for them previously. Another popular way is putting a public advertisement. This can work sometimes but had to say this is the most risky way. You can get calls from many strangers. There is a chance that your perfect nanny would be there but you and your family can be exposed to people that you do not know where they are coming from.

This is why lot of parents get help from nanny agencies to find a nanny. Some parents prefer online nanny agencies as they can have more nannies to choose from including local nannies. For an example if you are living in Toronto, Canada there are nanny agencies that can help you to find a nanny in Toronto. You can find nanny agencies who say that they do all the background check on nannies. Be careful here. You should not let someone else to do the most important part of nanny hiring process. It is recommended to do such checks by yourself with help some professionals on this area. Some other online nanny referral agencies have very detailed form to fill either for parents or for nannies. You can simply notice all the details on a nanny by quick overlook down the form. For an example form will include details like “Police report available? [Y/N], Drivers license available? [Y/N], Have certificates on first and CPR? [Y/N]” . So if you use this kind of nanny agencies to find a nanny, you can do all quick checks on the prospective nannies yourself. But to verify all these things you may request the nanny to show up the relevant document and check with the local authority for validation of such documents. So you can be sure that you hired the right nanny for your family.
 

Source : https://mashable.com/2008/10/17/how-to-find-a-babysitter-online/

Parents love their kids, but everyone deserves a break once in awhile. If you don't have family or friends nearby who would be willing to watch your children while you and your partner grab some together time, or even if you're a single parent who just needs a break, having access to a trustworthy babysitter is a sanity saver.

It can be tough to find the right person to care for your kids if you're new to your neighborhood or if you're a new parent. If you're in need of a caregiver-for-hire for a few hours, then here are some ideas on how to use the Web to find someone near you.

One thing worth noting is that there are a number of websites out there that can help you find a sitter for the kids. You can divide them up into two groups: sites that you can use for free; and sites that charge some kind of fee (normally a subscription fee) to give you access to their database of child care providers.

We'll look at the free sites first:

The thing about the free sites is that, for the most part, they are part of existing online classified ad sites. Craigslist, the de facto no-frills standard for free online classified ads, maintains a childcare category within its Community section. Both caretakers and parents looking for babysitters or nannies post listings here. Listings are mostly free format, so you can expect to see various levels of detail in their ads.

Kijiji, yet another free online classified ad service in both Canada and the US, maintains sections for both child and elder care providers. The interface varies between these two websites, but they have virtually identical functionality.

The main advantage of sites like Craigslist and Kijiji are that they are free and focus on many cities, states, and provinces. The downside is that they aren't designed for any of the specifics of childcare.There are no guarantees on the quality of caregiver that you will find, so a fair amount of follow-up and research will be necessary.

NannyFlower, serving the US, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, focuses on babysitting, nanny, and daycare searches. It costs nothing for parents to use. Its database contains key information about potential babysitters and nannies such as:

- Name
- Location
- Gender/Age
- Contact Information
- Availability
- Expected Pay Rate, Years of Experience, Education, and Skills

NannyFlower also allows you to contact prospective sitters through its internal messaging system. It maintains a database of several thousand babysitters in various locations. However, it has significantly fewer nannies and babysitters in its database than some of the websites that charge a subscription fee.

Read more at https://mashable.com/2008/10/17/how-to-find-a-babysitter-online/