How do I know that my child is ready for a nanny?
All children are different and take different amounts of time to get ready for childcare. Children also need different amounts of time for language development. In order for children to be able to express their wishes, it is extremely important that they can express themselves.
A child does not need to be able to form complete sentences, but should be able to communicate what they need. The first 1.5 years of a child’s life are important and formative for the parent-child relationship. In order to give a child to a childminder, there should be as stable a bond as possible between parents and child.
It is also possible to give your child to a childminder earlier. An advantage of the care is that the child learns new rules and structures and in most cases is cared for together with other children, so that it learns how to deal with other children. To see if the child is really ready for a childminder, a trial week is ideal.
You can first visit the childminder for a few hours with the child and if that works well, you can place the child in this care for over a week. For some children, the trial period works very well and they are usually ready for a nanny. Other children may need more time to get used to the childminder.
Then it can be helpful to bring the child to the childminder for a few hours over a longer period of time. In the beginning it can be useful if one parent stays with the child directly, then one can gradually test how it works if the child is cared for by the childminder alone for one or two hours and at some point for half a day. One should give the child the time it needs to get used to the new environment, as long as this is professionally possible.
