Customer Reviews

The Nanny Kit: Everything You Need to Hire the Right Nanny

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Porrazzo's guidebook provides good information about the options for finding a nanny through an agency, newspaper, public postings, or social networks. It also quite effectively lays out the "rules" for the employer, in terms of legal obligations both to the government and to the employee. I found these aspects quite useful.

However, there were two serious points of frustration for me. First, it seems to assume its reader has unlimited resources, and never discusses any of the compromises that are part of most parents' struggle to find adequate child care, especially in-home care. Second, it seems to assume that all of the job applicants are trained, literate, educated, and fluent in English -- and dismisses those who are not as "illegal aliens." This is not the reality of the market. Many of those who are legally qualified to work in the U.S. are not fluent in English; some cannot read in any language. Additionally, many of them do not have the resources to maintain reliable transportation. Any comprehensive guidebook on hiring child care workers must address these more complex problems.

While a slim volume at less than 100 pages, this book does give a good overview of the issues involved in selecting a nanny. As the previous reviewer notes, it is aimed as those who will be hiring a Nanny, as opposed to an Au pair, or other type of child care worker. Nannies are generally better educated and more costly to hire and employ, but do provide more intensive and usually education based childcare. Keep that in mind when purchasing, though it does give some good basic information that will apply to all childcare workers.

I LOVED what this book did for my family. After using this kit, 3 years later we still have the Nanny that we found. All my friends ask me how we found such a great fit for our family. I always tell them it was because we used this book.

What a wonderful resource. Pick it up and get going. Not to large and long to get through. Take what you need and move on. The forms are great.

The Nanny Kit is a great resource that turns finding and hiring a nanny into a simple, logical process. The emotional stress is taken out of the picture because Kim Porrazzo explains everything you need to know step by step, from hiring to training to tax reporting. The Nanny Kit is filled with practical tips, worksheets, logs and sample questions which organize your search. Finding a nanny was easy after reading The Nanny Kit. It gave me the confidence I needed to make an informed choice that was right for me. I recommend The Nanny Kit to anyone starting a search for childcare.

The Nanny Kit must be used before you hire your nanny. It is a step-by-step process that must be completed before the most important person steps into your home. Without using The Nanny Kit, too many things are missed. It has helped me everytime I have hired a nanny!