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The biggest problem most of the working couple face in todays world is balancing both, the household chores and the job. At some point or the other one undoubtedly feels the stress resulting in frustration and decreased performance either in the job or in maintaining the house. In case one is blessed with children then the strain is doubled. Likewise taking care of the elderly also has its own added responsibilities as well. In such a situation one feels the assistance of a domestic help or a maid as a piece of good fortune. But how do I hire a maid? How do I find out her credentials? Will the new comer be a reliable person? Can she be taken for granted? Will she really ease us out of all these household chores? How long will she take to learn? These are cer

Although it is not too difficult to find a domestic worker nowadays, especially since the advent of online searches and relevant portals and other internet and web based applications that are built specifically for this purpose, the real challenge is how to manage the maid after employment within the household. In this respect one may contemplate that employing a domestic helper is a simple job and once employed the process is even simpler. But on contrary to this, employing a maid is quite a tricky job in spite of having all the advanced contrivances. While we surpass the process of hiring a maid successfully, the next challenge that is encountered is the successful management of the maid. Successful management, here,

Cleanliness is associated with proper sanitation. A person who is said to be hygienic usually portrays cleanliness. Traditionally, hygiene is deliberated as a typically a good feature, and is in a way considered as contributing to other archetypes such as health and beauty. A household or workplace is said to be clean considering a set of criteria and people who live in that household or workplace is said to be responsible in maintaining cleanness. Hence in a way practical level cleanliness can be said as a supplementing factor to hygiene and disease prevention. Although cleanliness can be regarded as the state of being clean, the practice of achieving and maintaining that state must be carried out in a quite systematic

Family responsibilities like household chores, raising a child, taking care of the elderly although sound to be quite normal and easy, is in reality not easy as it seems to be…!!  If you are a working couple then it is even a worse scenario. Managing the household and giving justice to the job and your career almost seems like a never ending and mind boggling task. But then is there no way out to this? Yes you do have a justified answer. Hiring a maid or a domestic help. Well here there’s another hitch..! Can you really find a maid who fits into your household well by yourself….in spite of your hectic schedule? Finding a helper who fits in with your family is the first stage of the challenge, then again is she a local resident or a f

Maids, probably are one of the oldest informal employees around the world over. Several uneducated or less educated women around the world, owing to the lack of academic limitation, financial resources, women who belong certain weaker sections of the society who have limited scope for other jobs, take up domestic work as a last option. Since there are no specific duties for maids or the domestic workers, which are not well defined, the term maid is rather difficult to express, however, in general sense a maid is someone who takes care of your household in your absence, cook food and do daily chores for you for a pre-agreed specific amount or remuneration. Maids may be part time or fulltime or living in. In today’s fast and busy world, a maid’s jo

Raising children may be quite wonderful, but it is undoubtedly strenuous especially for single parents who are both working to keep their families going on efficiently. While most of us think hiring a maid or a babysitter is a logical thing, before relying on this, it has to be ensured that the best care for your little one is being done, because all said and done babysitter is surely not a replacement for parents. As a matter of fact housemaids offer great relief to the employers and do their best for your kids while you are away. In a way the housemaid makes your life less cramped up and lets you focus on your work better. All the same when you are back home, your children will be cheerful to spend time with you as well since their day would have mostly go

How safe is your household in the hands of your trusted housemaid? This may be a recurring question amongst the employers. No doubt, a housemaid eases your worries about household chores; infant care, elderly care and the all round maintenance of the house but, all the same have you ever thought about the scenario of the house in your absence with only your housemaid taking charge of the household. Will this new comer perform and prove herself up to your expectations? Is your home safe and secure in the hands of this housemaid? Answers to these questions are more often half hearted..! The reason for this half-hearted answers is that every person certainly doesn’t place all his trust on the other person. Whenever a

Getting old is a natural course or a phenomenon that every living being goes through. Age undoubtedly changes the insight of life by the experiences that one collects throughout. In our society, although the elderly have mostly been respected by the younger generation, the aged are sometimes not taken care of and they are deprived of their respect, affection and love that they deserve, and in certain instances they are abused, harassed, and abandoned, leaving to them without any alternatives but to take refuge old-age homes. Nevertheless there are a number of families which still go by the ethics, morals and good practices not forgetting to take care of their elders in their old age. In most of the cases especially if the couple are both employed, they engag

Today’s life tends to move at a faster pace, where in people find that they hardly have any time to attend to their household issues within the home making the job opportunities for house maids drastically go on the rise. But all the same getting the best suited house maid can be a very trying process especially if you are a first time employer. A housemaid in your home can certainly be a wise idea if you spend most of the time away from home and on job. Although your maid is supposed to be very helpful in taking care of Infants, children, elderly, physically challenged, or disabled, cook food for your family, carry out general household chores and laundry, general cleaning and maintaining, pet care and gardening, but all apart the one main aspect is that to do all these

It sometimes happens that a service that is availed with an intention to be helpful ultimately turns out to become a headache. Although such instances happen once in a while it is always better to be on the safer end by preparing yourself with all the key information pertaining to the service while going in for those kinds of so called helpful services instead of getting into a mess. We all live in a culture where having an assistant to help you with your domestic work especially if you are one of those working couple, is quite a normal and common aspect. But however, maintaining those extra hands can sometimes get quite tricky. Although hiring and maintaining a domestic helper is quite a common affair and can be very helpful in taking care of Infants, child