What are the Common Duties of a Nanny

By | October 19, 2010

Nanny is a person is employed by the families to under take all the works which are related to care of kids. Generally, duties are related to child care domestic task which are related to child care. There are general working hours of a nanny from 40 to 60 hours anywhere. There are few duties of a nanny in general, such as:

Generally, she needs to wash and iron the clothes of children, she needs to change or make the children’ bed. Preparing the meals, breakfast, lunch, snacks for children. Cleaning the bedroom and play area of the children. Nanny needs to spend the time with children to play with them and to educate them. She needs to help in writing home work, encourage to participate in different activities like sports, arts, others.

There are other duties like loving and nurturing the children, feeding babies, dressing children, bathing children, transporting the children from school to home and home to school, teaching children about basic skills and values etc. Highly educated nannies helps the children in education and writing home work. Few nannies help the children in different arts like painting, learning instruments.

Nanny may be asked to do other minor house keeping work as well. It depends upon nanny and requirements of a family. Nanny may be asked to purchase the groceries, ironing the cloths and other things.

Any way, these duties of a nanny are different in different places. Generally, house keeper type of nannies may asked to do the work more, it can be related to children and other things.