{"id":1079,"date":"2021-05-19T21:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/4-sample-schedules-for-your-vacation-babysitter-or-nanny\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:42:14","slug":"4-sample-schedules-for-your-vacation-babysitter-or-nanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/4-sample-schedules-for-your-vacation-babysitter-or-nanny\/","title":{"rendered":"Here 4 Sample Schedules for Your Vacation Babysitter or Nanny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hiring a travel nanny<\/a> or babysitter <\/a>during your family vacation can be the perfect way to balance time spent with your children and meaningful moments alone with your partner (or by yourself!).<\/p>

[LEARN MORE: Why you should hire a travel nanny<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>

But you and your caregiver should discuss and agree upon daily expectations for this working arrangement.<\/p>

Plan Ahead<\/b><\/h2>

Outline a vacation schedule before you go — to avoid dealing with miscommunication or conflict during precious vacation time. Be careful that she’s not on-call all of the time, which means she’ll get burnt out and you’ll end up paying her lots of overtime. Read the rules about nannies and overtime<\/a>.<\/p>

When planning, think about what’s important to you. Are you and your partner anticipating the luxury of sleeping in each day? Are you planning on enjoying some adults-only dinners (or daytime adventures)? Do you expect the sitter to take a more hands-on approach at certain times, and function as “back-up” during others? Most importantly, how will you determine what on-the-clock vs. off-the-clock time will look and feel like?<\/p>

Sample Schedules<\/b><\/h2>

Here are four sample schedules for inspiration (on-the-clock time is in bold<\/b>). You can either repeat the schedule that works for you each day, or alternate between schedules through the trip — it all depends on the type of vacation you have planned, personal needs and habits, the kind of kid-free time you’re envisioning and your children’s ages.<\/p>

And don’t forget that this is a vacation — as long as your sitter is clear about expectations, you both might find that some flexibility will be a welcome asset from day to day!<\/p>

Schedule 1<\/b>
7 a.m. – 10am. Breakfast on your own
10am – 12pm. Morning activities with child(ren)<\/b>
12pm – 2pm. Lunch on your own\/Free time
2pm – 3pm. Accompany family on activity<\/b>
3pm – 5pm. Do activities with child(ren)<\/b>
5pm – 6:30pm. Accompany family to dinner<\/b>
6:30pm – 8pm. Handle bedtime with children<\/b>
8pm – 7am. Free time\/Sleep<\/p>

Schedule 2<\/b>
7am – 8am. Get up with children<\/b>
8am – 9am. Breakfast with kids (parents sleep in)<\/b>
9am – 12pm. Family activity
12pm – 1pm. Take children to lunch<\/b>
1pm – 6pm. Free time
6pm – 8pm. Parents’ dinner date\/put kids to bed <\/b>
7pm – 7am. Free time\/Sleep<\/p>

Schedule 3<\/b>
6 am – 9 am. Get up with children and feed them breakfast (parents sleep in)<\/b>
9 am – 11 am. Free time while family goes on activity
11 am – 12 pm Accompany family for lunch<\/b>
12 pm – 3 pm. Take children on activity<\/b>
3 pm – 5 pm. Free time
5 pm – 6 pm. Feed children dinner<\/b>
6 pm – 8 pm. Watch children while parents go out<\/b>
8pm – 6am. Sleep (on-call if kids wake up)<\/b><\/p>

Schedule 4<\/b>
6 am – 7 am. Get children ready for day<\/b>
7 am – 8 am. Breakfast with family<\/b>
8 am – 11 am. Activity with children<\/b>
11 am – 12 pm. Lunch on your own
12 pm – 2 pm. Kids’ naptime<\/b> (on-call if they wake up)<\/b>
2 pm – 5 pm. Entertain children<\/b>
5 pm – 7 pm. Cook dinner while parents have time with children\/eat Dinner<\/b>
7 pm – 6 am. Free time\/sleep (parents will put children to bed)<\/p>

Alexandra Kadlec<\/i><\/a> is a freelance writer. When not writing, doing crossword puzzles or playing competitive games of Scrabble, she is known to get effusive about modern art, Jane Austen and karaoke.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hiring a travel nanny or babysitter during your family vacation can be the perfect way to balance time spent with your children and meaningful moments alone with your partner (or by yourself!). [LEARN MORE: Why you should hire a travel nanny] But you and your caregiver should discuss and agree upon daily expectations for this working Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":798,"featured_media":7519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":13344,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[6,17,16,12],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","vertical-child-care-options","vertical-holidays-seasons","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":"2014-06-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}