Top Ten Tips for Happy Help in the
Home
With one in
two households now employing help in their home*, NannySuccess.com advises you,
during the bustle of Christmas and hangovers of New Year, to think of those who
have worked in your home to get you successfully through 2008.
Georgina
Walsh founded NannySuccess.com, an innovative and affordable web-based service
which helps you to find the right nanny, au pair or housekeeper and author of
the book How to Find the Childcare Your Child will Love, suggests putting a few
of these ideas into action to ensure Christmas cheer in your home over the
festive season:
- Remember those simple thank
you’s; they
can tend to be forgotten in the commotion of Christmas.
- Tell them what they do well: people always like to know why
they are appreciated – and they are also likely to keep doing it.
- Dip into your pocket; a Christmas bonus will ensure
goodwill into 2008.
- Do something for them; it can cost you nothing but
mean a lot – from just a cup of tea, to an uplifting note or something to
make their work or home life easier.
- Buy them a thoughtful
Christmas present; really put your thinking cap on and get them something they will
appreciate – another bottle of bubble bath can be so disappointing.
- Find out what they are looking
forward to in the next year; take time out for a chat about things other than their
work, you may be surprised by what you hear.
- Ask them the one thing they
would change about their job; if it is realistic, try to make it happen.
- Send them home early; it will put a spring in their
step and a smile on their face.
- Do or buy something to make
their job easier; it isn’t glamorous but your nanny, au pair or cleaner may be
delighted if you buy a new iron – just make sure it isn’t her only
Christmas present from you.
- Make a New Year’s Resolution
for each other;
tell them something you will do for them from the beginning of the year
and ask them to do the same for you – it makes you think about each
other’s stress points and help to build your relationship.
“The right
help in your home can be the foundation of your life. So you need to work at keeping those foundations strong, “continues
Walsh, “there is so much advice about how to manage people at work and so
little about how to manage people at home. Boundaries become blurred and
emotions heightened, particularly when the care of your children is involved.”
“NannySuccess.com
offers tailored, affordable plans to help people choose the right nanny, au
pair or housekeeper and manage them well.
Our aim is happy help, happy home and consequently happy you.”
To
receive a 25% discount on any NannySuccess.com product, or on a copy of the
book How to Find the Childcare Your Child will Love, enter the code NB2 at NannySuccess.com
checkout.
For further details go to www.nannysuccess.com or contact
Georgina on 0288 7789256 or Georgina@nannysuccess.com
