How do you hire a housekeeper who also watches kids?

[Anonymous]

I don’t think this is a good job for an agency to fill. They often lie to the applicants about the job description to try to get a fee.
You can screen applicants quickly on care.com, and they have a Housekeeper search function

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went through an agency. I wanted a true housekeeper but also wanted some babysitting. She is wonderful - a mother herself - and loves my boys. She cleans everything, chops and preps meals, does all laundry, bathrooms, etc and will only stop if I ask her to please watch the kids or take the baby for a walk. I was very clear with the agency and with our housekeeper in her interview that I would always ask when I wanted babysitting/childcare help and she should assume all other times that I wanted her to do housekeeping.

1. How much did you pay agency?
2. What's her hourly rate?

1. The equivalent of three months pay
2. $24 an hour

Thank you for sharing this. Do you mind mentioning which agency?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went through an agency. I wanted a true housekeeper but also wanted some babysitting. She is wonderful - a mother herself - and loves my boys. She cleans everything, chops and preps meals, does all laundry, bathrooms, etc and will only stop if I ask her to please watch the kids or take the baby for a walk. I was very clear with the agency and with our housekeeper in her interview that I would always ask when I wanted babysitting/childcare help and she should assume all other times that I wanted her to do housekeeping.

1. How much did you pay agency?
2. What's her hourly rate?

1. The equivalent of three months pay
2. $24 an hour

Thank you for sharing this. Do you mind mentioning which agency?

I am not in DC.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like Ops husband and kids should hire and new wife and mother. Maybe he can take up with the housekeeper.

[Anonymous]

Sound like something I could do, but I'm only available when my sons are at school from ca 9 am to 3 pm. Just went through part time nanny/housekeeper/babysitting jobs and most are early morning or after school jobs.
I'll keep looking. There's got to be somebody who needs help or wants a break during those hours. I'd be unavailable when my kids are sick and home from school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like Ops husband and kids should hire and new wife and mother. Maybe he can take up with the housekeeper.

Seriously, stop embarrassing yourself, Grandma.