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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.

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When parents face difficult to care their child in case of their work, it is the correct time to find a ideal nanny for their adore child. Most of the parents engage with their business and work in Calgary, so they do not have enough time to spend for their loving child. Especially in the morning times, they struggle to get ready for the office. The main problem is, parents want to get ready for the work or office in morning, and at the same time they need to do all the duties of their child or children(wake up from the bed, preparing the breakfast, get ready them to the school or daycare center and etc). Because of these problems parents are pressured and they cannot focus on their work properly. Parents work to earn more money to have a luxury life with all the facilities. Due to high economical expenditure, double earning become the most important than single earning; not only that, many women are career oriented these days.

Therefore, hiring a perfect and trustworthy nanny is a great solution to take care their kids. Rather than taking the child to the daycare center, hiring a professional nanny is always recommended. Because, there are some issues in taking the child to daycare; every morning parents should get ready the child, so again and again same problem (getting pressured, tensed etc)  will continue. But, if there is a nanny, she will take care all the duties of the child. So parents can concentrate on their work without any tension and  worry about the children. Before hiring a nanny, parents should determine their needs and requirements. First they have to ensure what type of nanny they want to hire.

There are various types of nannies available in Calgary. The daily nanny; she will come everyday and look after the child and go when her working time is over. The live-in nanny, lives with the child, but parents have to provide accommodation facilities and food in addition to her salary. The live-in nanny spend all time with child and care with full attention. So, decide first, what type of nanny is suitable for your family. Parents should have a clear idea about qualification and qualities of nanny. Because you are going to give your child to the arms of the stranger.

So the nanny should have certain capacity. She should have followed nanny certification courses, have good experience in child care giving, should not involve in criminal activities and child abuse, good health condition and most important, she should be a trustworthy person. She must keep all the family affairs secretly. Parents can get all this information from the candidates. If parents need more clarification they can contact previous employers of the candidate and get some verifications from them. Before you do all these, prepare the job description list. Include all your requirements and expecting duties from the nannies. When you have a face to face interview with the nannies you can discuss with these job descriptions. These job descriptions will help you to shortlist and filter the candidates.

Increased number of busy parents in city like Melbourne widely opens door for nanny Melbourne, to take care of young kids and earn good income. Anyhow availability of day care centers in Melbourne reduce chances for nannies to earn more.  Day care centers explore more room for socialization, sharing and learning new vocabulary for children. However, there are disadvantages of using day care centers that creates comparatively less competition for nannies from day care centers. Some recent studies correlated increased behavior problems later in school and day center. In a day care center there are more than one kid taken care of, that may causes to get infection quickly from other kid. A nanny can give better personal attention to kid compare to day care. If parent is late kid can be shuffled to another caregiver and that may lead more issues for kid as he/she is under care of different caregivers. With nanny, this will not be an issue. A parent can find a nanny who accepts less pay than day care centers. Likewise there are many reasons to go for nanny over day care center.

Once parents decided to go for nanny, they have to understand on what are their needs, the duties that are expected to do by nanny, pay rate that can be affordable, extra benefits that can be given to nanny, terms & conditions of the job. Depending on the situation parents may be in need of a live-in nanny, full-time/part-time nanny,. Or etc. The expected duties may include prepare breakfast or help to prepare, dress up the child and take to school (by a vehicle or walk), take children back from school and help to have food, help child to do home work and do some learning activities (like football practice, swimming, library and etc) and etc. Parent can estimate current pay-rate by asking other parents in the area. As well as parent can consider extra benefits like offering home-made lunch or etc. Under terms and conditions, all should have to be detailed about the jobs, but not limited to dos and donts.

Due to development of technology many parents are happy to search for their nanny by online. There are various places parents can find their nanny online. The first most place they for is Google search engine and search like nanny Melbourne (if they are in Melbourne) and that results nannies in Melbourne. Other than that there are nanny directories available online that help to find a nanny near your postcode quickly with single click. Parents can post job on those directories and can expect more results/applicants as those directories used to have huge number of nannies. There are some such directories allow 7 days free trial and pay to communicate with nanny. By using those directories details like nanny's references.

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For each and every parent their child is precious gift from goad and parent always wish to give the world's best care for their young kids. But due to different lifestyle to cover up economical, financial situations or due to passion towards career, usually both parents used to work either full time or part time. This is very true in a busy city, such as Melbourne. Because Melbourne is one of the well developed city with more population and with more demand for nanny Melbourne from working parents. Hiring a nanny may be a hardest thing in the view of parent, because they want to leave their ever loving kids on the arms of a stranger – The Nanny. Anyhow it is not hard as parents think. Find a nanny – the BEST nanny is not a difficult task if the parents know(understand) some basic things about nanny selection. In this article we will detail some tips and ideas to hire a nanny.

Identify type of nanny in need and responsibilities / duties of nanny

Before starting the search for nanny, you have to clear about they type of nanny that you  require; you may need a full time nanny – Works full-time (8-10 hours a day) regardless of day or night depends on your requirements, live-in nanny- the nanny lives with your family and take care of your kid. You may have to have accommodation arrangements on this case, Day-time nanny – Works only during day time, Part-time nanny – works few days or few hours of the week as per your requirements, On-call nanny – works only when she is needed or etc. You also have to think about tasks which nanny should do. Tasks may be housekeeping, cooking meals, take children to outdoor activities and/or pick up them from outdoor activities, help children on doing home work, teach children and etc.

Usually parents do not allow nanny to smoke or any guest to nanny during child care time. It is best practice on concern with child's safety. Parent can setup hidden video camera to monitor nanny, such nanny cameras are available at low cost in the market that you can get with single Google search.

There are more Asians parents in Melbourne, they prefer English speaking nannies to improve child's learning skills. Most of such foreign parents prefer nannies in their own community to develop religious activities in child's day to day life. You have to decide on it as what kid of nanny is needed for you.

You have to do small research using internet and find out ongoing hourly pay rate for nanny in Melbourne (or in the area where you are). That will help you to determine whether you are affordable to have a nanny or not. Anyhow, parents usually do not bother to pay for care their kids. But to make sure that you are not paying higher than on-going market price, the small research will help. Other than pay-rates (or in case if you are not affordable), you can think of some other motivates for nanny on top of pay; like household share, free holiday package with family and etc.

At this stage you may be able to list down, type of nanny that you are looking for, responsibilities of nanny that you require, dos and dont's of nanny, pay rates & other benefits, terms & conditions. Listing these will help you a  lot on finding the best nanny for your kid.

Where to find a nanny & What to ask from nanny at very initial stage?
You can find a nanny with help of nanny online directories that bring nannies & parents together (there you may find huge number of nannies in your area), nanny agencies, posting advertisement on newspaper (or magazine or etc). Once you locate a nanny, you should ask for references(may be nanny's previous clients), valid passport( or any identification card that is offered by government or driving license or etc), background check, police check report, certificate of completed child care courses, first aid course and etc, basic contact details. If you like you can check phone number re-verse look up as  background check, but as far as if you able to get the police check report, phone re-verse look-up may not be required.

Once you will get all required details from nanny applicants, you can filter and go for phone interview or face to face interview. You cannot and should not take decisions to hire a nanny only with phone interview.

If you are very busy person and have no time for all kind of checks and filtering nanny applicants, you can go for nanny agencies who can help you, because nanny agencies do thorough checks on each and every nanny who are registered with them But, you should not hire a nanny without interviewing her by yourself even she is recommended by nanny agency.

Usually nanny agencies do extensive analysis on every nanny that on their database; the analysis includes criminal checks with fingerprints, employment background checks, verified references, phone reverse lookup and etc. As a reuslt of such detail analysis, nanny agencies charge some high fees from parents. Anyhow you may not sure on kind of checks that the nanny agency does; if so, you can ask it to them as well as aks about their services from their previous clients (It is better to make and appointment with their previous client and ask questions about the agency). Also, by asking what number of years the nanny agency is in business and number of nannies it places every month, you can learn more about professionalism of the agency.

In summary, it is recommended to do all kind of checks for a nanny along with a face to face interview and that will result the best nanny for you.

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