Before and After School Care

With fall just around the corner and school ready to start, we find that we get lots of parents longing for some help. The most commonly posted position right now is for before and after school care. Basically, someone to help out for an hour or so in the morning to get the kids off to school, and then someone to pick them up or be at the house when the kids are done school, all while the parents are working.

Parents tend to ask a lot of a caregiver for this type of care, including driving to activities, doing laundry, prepping the family meal, etc. We have a few suggestions for you if you’re searching for this type of care and we hope it helps you. Before and after school care is hard to find, so we want to help make it a bit easier!

• Be realistic: ask the caregiver to do only what they are able to do during that time… doing laundry and taking the kids to karate might be too much for them to handle
• Be flexible: add more hours to make it worth their while, or arrange your own schedules so that someone can be home for the before school shift instead of finding someone for so few hours
• Expect to pay more: because it’s such a part-time position, it’s not ideal for the caregiver, so you may be asked to pay a bit more for it. Also, compensate for additional costs, like the cost of driving the kids around
• Look everywhere: use multiple resources to search for care, like our service, neighbourhoods, SAHM that can help you out, etc
• Have a back-up plan: have a plan so that you’re covered in case the caregiver can’t come one day
• Share with another family: share the costs and the caregiver and use each other as a back up plan
• Lastly: be prepared; have everything arranged or ready before the caregiver comes over, making it easy for her to fulfill your needs. i.e. have meals prepped, play dates arranged, and activities scheduled

It can be tough, but it can be done! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call us at 1-866-221-7918 to discuss your needs!

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