28/05/2018

Which nanny is best for you: Live in or Live out?

Despite of the fact that nannies have become the necessity for all families with little kids in the current scenario, there are lots of people who exactly do not know what type of nanny they want for them? Well, this might surprise you, but it is the reality of the today’s generation or the couples that have recently become the parents of a kid. For them a nanny is the person who will take care of their child while they are out of the home for accomplishing their professional engagements. Anyhow, this problem is not with such parents, but there are lots of people just need a nanny to look after their kid but do not know exactly know about their requirements.

Undoubtedly, the job of nanny is to take of children while their parents are out of home. But, depending upon the requirements of the parents, they are basically divided into two categories, namely live in nannies and live out nannies. And, interestingly depending upon the types of duties performed by them there is a difference in their charges.

Live in nannies: These nannies are basically the nannies that live in the house along with the child throughout the day and also help the parents in accomplishing the different chores related to the child even when they are at home.  Generally, when the parents are at home, they have to accomplish various other tasks like cooking meals of the younger one, washing his clothes, taking him out in the evening etc.  Along with this they also have to look after their other responsibilities as an impact of which despite of being at home they are not able to spend time with their kid.

Therefore, with an intention of spending substantial time with the kid after coming to home, they require the service of a nanny who could live with them and assist in accomplishing some tasks.  But, as the nanny is required to live with them, they also have certain responsibilities towards her. When a family hires the services of a live in nanny then it should also make proper arrangements for her living and look after her various needs. Always remember that when a nanny lives in your home, she is also like your family member and therefore should be given the same respect as other members of the family enjoy. As she stays in your home, it does not mean that she is your servant, she also has her personal life and therefore requires some space to retain her privacy. When you hire a live nanny, always try to provide her a separate room that is furnished with a personal television and necessary furniture. Even if you cannot provide her television, then also the room should be well furnished with mandatory furniture. After coming back to home, you should give her some time to go out and at-least let her go and meet her family once a week.

In, short when you hire a nanny to live in with you always try to look after her basic needs as you look after the needs of your family members.

Live out nannies: A live out nanny is one who stays during the specific hours the day with your child looking his various needs and leaves for home after the parents return back to the home. But, hiring a live out nanny does not mean that the parents become careless from their responsibility towards their child. It is seen that there are lots of parents who think that as there is nanny to look after the child at home during their absence do not come back to the home on time and spend long hours out of home.

This practice is against the ethics, a nanny is also a human being who has her family and other responsibilities. Getting late because of professional engagements once or twice in two-three months can be adjustable by the nanny but following this practice on regular basis is not ethically good. Here also one thing which needs to be mentioned here that sometimes there are regular meetings in office, at that time it is the responsibility of the parents to let the nanny know about this and offer her some courtesy benefits like making arrangements for dropping her at home or offering her some financial assistance.

On the basis of above description I am sure, the prospective parents will be able decide the type of nanny they would like to hire for their child.