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The best way to make the decision on choosing a nanny for your children is by listening to your heart. Follow your intuition. If you don’t feel any ‘chemistry’ with that person, don’t even try to hire her/him. You might regret it, one day, for choosing a bad nanny for you beloved children and for not listening to your heart.

Yet, there should be some other considerations:

• He/she loves kids

Check it out by asking how close he/she with the kids in her/his family or neighborhood or with her/his own kids if any. Ask her/him her/his most beautiful and worst experience with kids. By the answer she/he gives, you can judge whether she/he loves kids or not. Don’t forget to look into her/his eyes to avoid her/his lying to you.

• Her/his experience in taking care of kids

You can ask her/him how she/he take care of kids should she/he has experiences in it. Make her/him tell you solutions to problems that might rise on the process, for example what if the kid falls or can’t stop crying.

• Her/his vision and mission on childcare

Is she/he the kind of person who just allows kids to do anything they want—while you’re not that kind? Or, on the contrary, she/he has very binding rules—while you don’t want your children to have too many boundaries because that might affect their creativity? To sum up, you and the nanny must have the same vision and mission about childcare. Differences will not only cause confusions to the kids, but also can cause problems between parents and nanny.

• Medical Check up

It would be best to take her/him for a medical check up. Yet, some parents feel that it’s a little bit impolite. So, the best thing to do is by asking directly to the candidate whether she/he have suffered from a certain kind of illness or not and which illness. Or, you can judge by her/his look and appearance.

• Trial

If possible, ask for a trial. It can be two or three days. From that, you can see how she/he interact with your kids. You can also find out if the kids like her/him or not. Next, you can finalize the decision, whether to hire her/him or go through some other recruitment processes.