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Choose a trusted babysitter
For occasional guards, there is sometimes the solution “SOS grandpa / grandma if we are lucky that the grandparents are available. If not, we will need a baby-sitter sometimes. But how can you be sure that the student you are considering recruiting will not spend her time on Facebook?
To reassure yourself, we give ourselves the time to find the right person. Choosing a babysitter at the last moment is to risk not finding a trusted person! So we anticipate. And we make a list of several people : they will not necessarily be free when we want them: schedule, outings, exams… the students are often overbooked!
To find a babysitter, we ask around
We ask our friends who use babysitters to brief us on the most competent. We use our network, word of mouth, to find a serious student who loves children and would like to make ends meet. Our neighbors have their children looked after every Saturday by the same student and are delighted? We ask to meet her: we come to see her for a while with your children, just to get to know each other before committing to an entire evening.
Before giving our child to a babysitter, we check the security of our home
Since we have our child looked after at home by a babysitter, we think of securing our home, and checking that the security is up to standards. It must be equipped with fire alarm on all floors and a fire extinguisher.
We ask security barriers at the foot of the stairs. To avoid any domestic accident, we put cleaning products and medicines out of reach of curious hands, we secure the windows.
Babysitting agencies
If we wish maximum guarantees on the training of our babysitter, we can ask specialized agencies to take care of recruitment and salary for us. Find out more on the websites: babychou.com, yoopala.fr, family-sphere.com, babysittor.com, happysitters.fr, O2.fr, yoopies.com and the Yoopies mobile application.