How Matching Children With The Right Nanny Care Supports Critical Development
Children go through many critical periods of social, emotional, and cognitive development during their informative years. Finding the right nanny who will be able to properly support them through these milestones creates a happy, comfortable environment that encourages learning and exploration for a child.
Finding the Right Nanny is Vital for Your Child
Your child should be able to explore their emotions, environment, hobbies, and interests. To achieve this, creating a space for curiosity and learning is best provided by childcare experts who truly understand their family dynamic. There are many successful childcare approaches and having a nanny that shares the same practices as a family provides the best experience.
Matching with the correct nanny care for your family will help children feel settled, secure, and inquisitive, in turn allowing them to thrive, learn, nurture talents, and develop their unique personalities. Parents will appreciate the peace of mind that comes with consistent nanny care that aligns with their own family values and childcare style.
Our Approach to Matching Families With the Best Nanny Care
Step 1: We Start by Conducting a Multi-Step Family Interview
We know each family has a unique style of parenting that works for them. We believe that finding a nanny who naturally matches this parenting style is key to successful child care. An in-depth initial interview is conducted with each family to learn all about how they approach their daily routine.
Topics typically discussed during this interview:
- Schedules and usual routines.
- Activities
- Nutrition
- Discipline styles
- Likes and dislikes
- How to best engage them in social, recreational and academic activities that unlock their true potential.
Parents and caregivers are the experts on their children and family dynamics, so we allow them to help steer and hone our approaches to suit their child’s needs.
Step 2: Which Type of Nanny is Best for Your Child: The Nurturer, Engager or Leader?
All our nannies are carefully classified as either Nurturers, Engagers, or Leaders, depending on their style of child care. Each approach is most successful in a home that uses a similar parenting style. Once a child’s needs have been identified through the family’s in-depth interview process, their ideal type of nanny will become clear. The right nanny will complement a child’s personality, offering the type of support they respond to best (nurturing, engaging or leading).
Step 3: Matching a Nanny to Your Family
A family’s child or children will be assigned a Nurturer, Engager, or Leader nanny who naturally gravitates toward the right childcare style for them. All our local nannies are employed by us, which allows us to make sure each nanny is properly vetted. This vetting process involves their multi-step interview, thorough background and reference checks, physicals, and ongoing reviews and check-ins throughout their employment.
Step 4: Delivering Flexible, Tailored Nanny Care
Once a nanny has been assigned to a family, a set schedule will be devised to complement usual routines for seamless continuity in child care. These schedules can be tailored to suit children of all ages, from newborns right through to teenagers. For example, for older children, a childcare plan might include things like driving them to sports and activities.
This flexible nanny care ties in with Oliver’s Nannies of Boise’s signature FlexCare service. FlexCare allows families to access their usual personalized nanny care at the drop of a dime if an emergency or unexpected event comes up. We’re here for our families by phone 24/7 – because life sometimes throws a curveball!
Are you ready to get matched with on-demand or scheduled nanny care that suits your child’s needs and personality? Get in touch today and arrange your multi-step interview!