If you are a parent who works and you have a fixed schedule and you need someone to look after your children while you are at work then you can either get a professional nanny or the local baby sitter. Now it might burn a hole in your pockets but getting either a nanny or a baby sitter is the best thing to do for the care of your child. Now whether you will get a sitter or a nanny will depend on the age of your child the hours of care which are needed and any other expectations.

If you need a sitter for just a few hours then the baby sitter is the best bet for you. The sitter ensures that your child is comfortable and safe for a few hours. But then if you need someone to look after your child for a bigger part of the day and also on a regular basis, then you need to get a nanny. They are the ones who help to raise the children along with the parents and they teach children to be responsible and they teach them values.

Now there also arises the question about experience. A sitter is usually a teen or a young adult so that don’t have much experience or even any sort of training usually. But then the nannies work with agencies, are professionally trained and even have written recommendations. So they are the ones who are backed by the companies they work for. So if you need someone who has more experience then you should probably get nannies.

You can even negotiate with your sitter about the looking after household chores. This will require additional pay but you will get your work done. You have to keep in mind that taking care of young children is very hard so you need to ask for simple household chores like say clean up or laundry.

Then is the discipline of the child. Usually a sitter will make sure that your child is completely disciplined. But then the sitters are usually less concerned. Finally comes the pay rate. Nannies are more expensive to keep than baby sitters. But then there are also a lot of other factors which contribute to the wage rate of the sitter like their experience or the company that they work for and so on.