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How to Find a Good Nanny Or Babysitter

Posted on time April 6th, 2009 by user Prem flag (20) Comments

With more and more working parents and families going nuclear, the concept of a domestic help/ Au pair/ nanny/ baby sitter has become popular every where. This throws up a great challenge as it is very difficult to find a professional babysitter. It is very important that you find a babysitter whom you can entrust your little one without worrying much. This post will lead you to some pointers in choosing a good babysitter.

Motherhood or natural Love for Kids

It will be best if you can find a nanny who had been through motherhood. If you cannot find one, see if your babysitter has a natural affection towards kids. This will be useful as you need lot of patience with small kids.

Basic training

Kids are never idle and requires your attention all the time. Even when they sleep, things can happen and the babysitter should have some basic knowledge of first aid and emergency.

Experience

When it comes to handling kids, there should not be any compromise on the experience part. Experience will equip your babysitter with the confidence and the presence of mind to act accordingly to the many situations, both emergency or otherwise.

Language

It is best if your babysitter speaks the language you speak to your kids. When the kid is in the growing stages, it is best you don’t confuse them with multiple languages. If your baby is too small, then this really doesn’t matter.

Apart from the above qualities, ask them about their previous work place and inquire with them about their experience. This will throw a lot of insight about the general behavior of your baby sitter. For more useful parenting tips, keep visiting our parenting blog.

tag Tags: find baby sitter, find nanny, working parents

Boys like Guns and Girls like their Dolls

Posted on time March 30th, 2009 by user Prem flag (5) Comments

Have you wondered why boys like guns and girls like their dolls? Well the answer is quite simple, If you are a parent like us, you know that we buy guns for the boys and dolls for the girls. After sometime, they will just accept guns and if you buy them a doll, they will refuse playing with it or give it to the girls who visit them. Boys watch their dads and girls take cues from their mother. So the boys end up shaving, repairing toys and the girls end up doing makeup and cooking with their tiny kitchen sets.

As for Vaitu, he is so far not into Guns (we haven’t brought him a gun to be precise) but he is a major car freak. It is simple, I like cars and I end up buying him lot of miniature cars :). Apart from that, he has some kind of a liking for automobiles and can recognize most of them including a JCB. Now, that makes me a proud dad. Rishu on the other hand, can be spotted nowadays mostly with the broom or her moms makeup kit. Boys and Girls.

Ok, here is what Vaitu came up with this weekend when I was lazily going through the news papers. The photo quality may not be good coz I grabbed my mobile phone and took the pictures without breaking the formation. Neat right?

tag Tags: boys, cars, dolls, guns, toys