Many of today’s parents are both full time workers in order to provide the best future for their family, especially the children. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers are finding that, they can use a helping hand around the house and a professional home child carer might be the way to fill that need. But a mother merely mentioning her choice to hire a child carer in social circles, even among other mothers, and these usually starts the Mother Wars debate. Judgmental comments that mom must be lazy or she doesn’t care enough about her family to do every single thing for them. This often divides parents on this very personal decision. But in the quest to provide the best child care for your child social opinions are secondary to your needs.
If any of the following situations ring true to you, perhaps your family should consider hiring a professional home child carer. Maybe you’ve tried babysitters or have called on your parents and in-laws one time too many to care for your children. Perhaps you are working so many hours, and meeting all the children’s’ obligations is just not possible.
Or maybe you travel a lot for your job and your children are experiencing instability in their lives. As with any arrangement, “good fences make good neighbors,” so it is imperative to consider all necessary security and background checks before you engage a professional home child carer, however these are the benefits to hiring a child care provider from Trust Box Nanny Agency.
You Can Focus on Your Children. It may sound strange that having someone help care for your children can actually help you focus more on them, but it is true. A state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by a prolonged period of stress and frustration, which many mothers suffer from, is a problem many stay-at-home mothers face when they are taking care of children the whole day. You can’t even go to the bathroom without someone banging on the door or put the dishes away without little hands trying to grab the knives.
A professional home child carer can step in to take care of your children when you need something as simple as a bath or someone to watch the kids while you go to the grocery store without four kids running all over the place causing disorganization, and hanging off the side of your grocery cart. Our professional home child carers help with those essential light household tasks like laundry, dishes, and even cooking. Yes, you stay home with your family all day and could do all of those things every single day but wouldn’t you rather enjoy quality time with the children over quantity?
Hiring a professional home child carer from Trust Box Nanny Agency can give you more time to actually focus on your children without feeling like you are the one who is the child carer but rather the parent. The time you have with your children is precious and being able to commit your attention to them without having a long to-do list hanging over your head lets you be mother without any distractions tearing you away.
You Can Focus on Yourself. Raising a family and managing your household doesn’t leave much time for taking care of yourself. We always say our family comes first but we need to come first too. Because if you do not take good care of yourself, you cannot be in the position to take care of those that actually matter; Family. Take better care of yourself by hiring help if you think you need it. A professional home child carer can take some of that pressure you’re putting on yourself so that you can spend that time on yourself instead. You deserve it!
Recharging and taking a break from time to time will make you a mother who is better able to handle all of those daily parenting challenges that come your way, like diaper rash cream being spread all over your new sofa or the sparkling hairstyle your children gave themselves with a bottle of a hair gel and cream.
Mothers you do not have to do it alone anymore, and no need to feel guilty doing so. In many ancient civilizations, multiple generations lived under one roof to help raise children. In Ghana, for example, grandmothers, unmarried sisters, and widowed sisters would all live in the family home and automatically simply to help take care of the children and do household chores without necessarily being asked to.
Research shows more African and Ghanaian households are becoming multigenerational, grandparents may not necessarily be moving in solely to help raise the children. However, their presence in the home eases the modern-day do-it-yourself attitude stay-at-home mothers experience when they mention they could use some additional hands to help out with the children and around the house.
You don’t have to go it alone and you shouldn’t have to try. A professional home child carer may not be family, but the right one can certainly feel like she’s a family member of yours.
Many stay-at-home mothers are rebuked if they even consider hiring a professional home child carer. This guilt comes from both working mothers and other stay-at-home mothers.
Dig deeper and you’ll find many of those same people have family in town to help out. Grandma pops over several times a week to watch the kids while the mother goes to an exercise class or an Aunt watches the children Friday nights so both parents can enjoy a date night. That may not be you and not having any family around can put a lot of strain on you to be a Supermom when you don’t have to be.
You Need Stress Relief. For some, having a professional home child carer who is a stranger, at least at first, seems like too much stress on top of raising children and managing every aspect of your home. For others, having a professional home child carer can help decrease those daily stress levels.
A professional home child carer can fill in the gaps to help your household run more smoothly and efficiently. Instead of having a to-do list that includes the laundry, dishes, cooking, picking up the children from school and running two children in opposite directions simultaneously to after school programs and dance lessons, spending extra cost on after school activities to enable you attend a meeting or meet an important task, you have a professional home child carer to step in and take charge of the tasks you can’t do as a human who can’t be in two places at once. And these are common causes of stress for most mothers.
Your professional home child carer from Trust Nanny Agency Provides Convenience. How often has it been time to go pick up your other children from school and your baby has just fallen asleep in his crib? Or, as much as you love them, how about those days when you’re simply too sick to care for your children?
Having a professional home child carer is convenient. Let the baby enjoy his nap while you or the professional home child carer pick up the children at school. When you’re too sick to stand, you can be rest assured that your nanny will take good care of the kids so you can get better. A professional home child carer is sometimes a much-needed convenience to today’s family and the busy lifestyle we lead.
She Can Be an Extension of You. Our home child carers are trained to follow the families parenting style when it comes to discipline, beliefs and even teaching methods. The key is to agree upon all of your expectations, from household tasks to child care preferences, before hiring your child carer. At Trust Box Nanny Agency, our experienced child carers adapts to the rules the families set out and essentially tries to become another you to the benefit of the welfare of the child and in the child’s interest. She doesn’t contradict your parenting style and becomes your right-hand woman, so to speak, offering her help in the best possible way just as you would if you could clone yourself. She’s not you and she never will be, of course, but her presence makes your life easier and more efficient.
A professional home child carer can be a great companion. Above all, a child carer is your employee. However, she can also be a great companion. Stay-at-home mothers especially often live in isolation. They may not have much in common with other at-home parents or they simply don’t have time to go on outings with others. A professional home child carer can become a trusted companion. She has a vested interest in taking care of your children and knows them much like you do. You’re not trying to buy a friend here, but your child carer is in your home, caring for your children and can become a part of your household.
The right child carer can also become a companion to your children. She’s not their mother at all. But you can leave her in charge of your household and know your children have a companion who cares about them while caring for them.
Our professional home child carers Provides Consistency and Reliability. Hiring a professional home child carer with a regular schedule, even on a part-time basis, can provide consistency and reliability. A Mom’s Day Out program can be more affordable than a professional home child carer but is typically only offered on certain days and times. They may be free but require you to also offer free babysitting services to other parents in return. But are you truly caught up for that or you are only doing so while awaiting your turn.
A home child carer is a professional and a constant in your home once hired. She can be there on a set schedule during the hours you agree upon in the hiring process. Her presence gives your family someone who’s reliable and who you can count on without having to rely on someone else’s fluctuating schedule or a day care’s strict hours.
She Helps You Be More Efficient. You take care of everyone and that can often mean you’re pulled in many directions at the same time. You can’t seem to get one thing accomplished because you’re trying to get 100 things accomplished all at once.
With a home child carer, you can establish a list of priorities she must follow so you can also set up your own list of priorities. You’ll become more efficient in everything you do and get more of your goals accomplished, too.
A professional home child carer doesn’t have to Be Full-Time or Permanent. Having a professional home child carer doesn’t mean you’re rich. Many household budgets can’t afford the luxury of a full-time professional home child carer. While professional home child carers are typically a premium childcare option, many part-time professional home child carers have rates that can fit into your family’s budget and schedule nicely.
Another option is to hire on a trial basis. You may only need a temporary arrangement, such as after you have a baby or if your family is facing a situation that would alter your usual schedule. Having a professional home child carer doesn’t have to be a long-term commitment.
Your Family’s Needs Matter the Most
Do you need a nanny? Bottom line, it’s your decision!
If having a part- or full-time professional home child carer makes your life easier, it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. You don’t need justification from others. As long as hiring a professional home child carer is right for your family, that’s what counts.
