100 Tips for Nannies and Families

It’s inevitable.  You’ve got a huge deadline at work and your child wakes up sick. You really can’t miss the whole day of work - but your kid is clearly too ill to go to school or daycare.   What do you do?

•  Hire a sitter - through a service like Care4Hire - who can care for your child on short notice.  Care4hire has made it easy for families to search for sitters by “short notice”.
• Leave the sitter with emergency contact numbers, ginger ale, Jell-O and other “sick kid necessities.”
• Provide instructions on any special equipment (e.g., Nebulizer, inhaler, etc.) that your child may need.
• Be clear about medicines needed, dosages and times.
• Work from home, if possible.
• See if your husband can stay home with the kids while you go into the office.
• Split the day with your husband, with each of you going into the office for a few hours and tending to your sick child for a few hours.
• Use one of your sick days to care for your child.

Do you have any other tried-and-true solutions to this common problem?