The Family Needs Assessment & Interview Guide — everything to decide, ask, and verify before someone new cares for your child.

Seven printable tools that take you from “we need a nanny” to a signed-off hire — the process Tammy has used with families for twenty years, adapted from Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer.
Download the free guide ↓No sign-up. Print the worksheets and fill them in by hand.
Almost every nanny problem Tammy is called in to mediate was introduced before the nanny was hired — in a job that was never fully defined, a reference call that asked the wrong questions, or an interview that measured polish instead of fit.
This guide fixes the order: define the job first, then verify, then interview, then onboard.


Tammy Gold, LCSW, spent years matching families with nannies before writing Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer (Penguin). Today she works beside families, and their agencies, as a neutral expert: defining the job, interviewing candidates, checking references and setting up the first 30 days.


Have Tammy join your interview, make your reference calls, or fill in your work agreement with you and your nanny.