Professional Nannies

I've just read an article 'In good hands' in SCMP, which is about professional nannies in Hong Kong. Most parents who employed these professionalists were expatriates in the past but now local Chinese is also a fast- growing customer segment.



These super nannies are highly educated and well trained. Most of them received education in early childhood education. Some local parents love to hire English native speaking nannies in order to allow their kids to expose to the language in the very early stage, while other selected those from Taiwan who can teach the children Mandarin in the daily environment.

Surely, you have to pay big buck for these specialists, the salary of an experienced nanny is around HKD40,000.

In the article, a western nanny comments that Hong Kong parents in general focus too much on the kids' academic result but overlook other important aspects of their upbringing.


Well, I still believe love, care and teaching from parents are the most important for children. Being a mother, I think the best thing for my kids is to expose to different opportunities and experience, to encourage them to explore life, but not to mould them into the shape as I expect. We give lives to children, but it does not mean we have the right to control their path in the future.