Uptick is “mothers helpers”
Has anyone else seen a huge uptick in “mothers helpers” job listings?? I feel like that’s a term I haven’t heard since I was one, in middle school! many years ago lol. Suddenly I keep seeing posts in all of my nanny/babysitting groups with parents looking for them. In my experience mothers helpers are usually young and/or inexperienced people who are willing to work for a lower rate and basically just hang out with the child(ren) while a parent gets housework done or something along those lines. Usually only a few hours a week.
Not only have I seen a huge uptick in those posts, half of them are just looking for an actual nanny but don’t want to pay nanny rates so they call it a mother’s helpers. 30 hours a week is not a mothers helper… Or they’re looking for a house cleaner but again don’t want to pay appropriately. Out of the probably 10 posts I’ve seen in the past few days, off memory I’d say like 2 of them were true mothers helpers jobs whereas the rest were not at all??