Tag: domestic help

Yaya Chronicles: The Search for a Good Yaya Continues

.Reading time 8 minutes.

All of you know that I have been looking for a yaya (stay-in babysitter) ever since my old yaya didn’t come home for the holidays last December.  While the experience has been very frustrating — we treated her like family, and she didn’t even have the decency to inform us she won’t be returning after […]

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Questions to ask during yaya interview

.Reading time 7 minutes.

I got a new yaya 2 days after the old yaya left. I caught old yaya on Saturday, asked her to leave on Sunday, and interviewed and hired a new yaya on Tuesday. April 9 was a holiday so maybe that day doesn’t count. Still, it doesn’t hide the fact that I was blessed to […]

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