In-House Staffing Blog

Looking for a Job in Child Care? How to Master Your Interview
A career in child care can be a fulfilling job. You can interact with children, get to know the family, and build lasting relationships. The first step in becoming a nanny or babysitter is to complete the interview. By showing off your skills and personality...

How to Introduce Your Children to a Nanny
Staying with a nanny is a big change for your children, and you want to ensure a smooth transition. The nanny will play an important role in their day-to-day lives and is someone they’ll build a lasting bond with. It’s not always easy if they’re shy, so use proven...

How to Set Your Nanny Up For Success
If you’re hiring a nanny for the first time or transitioning to a new nanny, the first few days and weeks of employment are critical to a successful employer-employee relationship. Take advantage of this time so you and your nanny to get to know each other and begin...

7 Tips for Communicating with Your Nanny
Your relationship with your nanny is first and foremost employer-employee. You’ve hired someone. You’re the boss. However, a parent-nanny relationship can be more complicated and difficult than the ones you have at your work with your own supervisor or those that you...

Household Employment: Everything You Need to Know
As someone who employs a nanny, housekeeper, private teacher, or any number of domestic workers, it can be difficult to keep track of all the laws, rules, and regulations surrounding household employment. Our friends at GTM, Aunt Ann's preferred household payroll...

How to Pay Your Nanny Overtime
Along with paying their employee at least the applicable minimum wage rate, not figuring out overtime are common ways families violate wage laws. Our friends at GTM, Aunt Ann's preferred household payroll service, provide all the information you need to pay your nanny...

How to File Your Nanny Taxes in 2021
It is that time of year again when millions of Americans start piecing together their 2020 tax information to file their personal tax returns by the April 15, 2021 deadline. Household employers – families that have hired nannies, senior caregivers, private teachers,...

Voted Gold for Nanny Services in Bay Area Parent’s Best of the Bay
We're beyond honored to receive Bay Area Parent's Gold Award for Best Nanny Services in San Francisco. Thank you for your continued support throughout the years. We appreciate all of our clients and candidates whom we've helped and look forward to connecting more...

Covid-19 Vaccine Update & a Message from the International Nanny Association
According to London Breed, the city of San Francisco will be moving into Phase 1B starting February 24th. We'd like to share information directly from the International Nanny Association that may help childcare providers access the vaccine as soon as possible. The...

What is an NCS?
In the immediate days and weeks following childbirth, it’s common for new parents to feel overwhelmed tending to an infant’s well-being. That’s why many couples opt to hire a newborn care specialist for guidance and assistance. If you’re unfamiliar with this term,...