I stumbled on an online conversation some women were having a few years ago, each of them stating reasons why they were not comfortable assigning the role title “Household Manager” to any domestic staff. I didn’t understand why a simple title could be a problem. […]
I have see many employers willing to accommodate some mistakes and errors of new domestic staff upon resumption. But how many mistakes does it take until it becomes too many? When should an employer start to get worried and move in to intervene in the […]
I had a pastor a few years back who used to say that the reason Adam failed the test in the garden of Eden was because He was created as a fully grown man and did not have the opportunity to grow. Well, this may […]
It was about two weeks ago I came across a post on social media. A woman wrote in for suggestions on how to get lice out of the hair of her two young girls. She was devastated, especially when she discovered that they got it […]
This will be the first of many blogs in a series I will tag UNLEARNING. There are many ways we approach domestic staffing that may seem normal because we have been conditioned by our environment to normalize it. But when what we call “our […]
More and more families are beginning to see that with the amount of work to be done in their homes around housekeeping, cooking and childcare, one domestic staff may not be realistic anymore. Hiring one domestic staff for full home management means overwhelm, high turnover […]
I am gradually settling for the thought that there are only two pathways to get your ideal domestic staff: It’s either you are paying for them or grooming them. Most employers fall into one of these two pathways. If you are on the paying pathway, […]
“I can hardly keep these domestic staff. They are so lazy. I am a perfectionist and I can’t stand dirt. So it is better for me to send them away than keep complaining over everything they do.” The lie of perfectionism is the lie employers […]
From the title, you are probably wondering that of all the places lessons could be picked from, we had to go all the way to Babylon. This is a story you are very familiar with regardless of the religion you favor. I am so sure […]