6 Steps to Being the Ideal Nanny
What is most valuable to you? What is most valuable in your life? It could be anything: your car, favorite jewelry, engagement ring, family memento? How is it kept safe? Maybe its hidden away or locked up in a safe or safety deposit box?
Ode to the Single Parent
Being a single parent is no easy task, particularly in families wherethere is more than one child. Due to the unique challenges of havingto balance a professional career with parenthood, it should come as nosurprise that a significant portion of my clientele consists of singleparent families.
How To Be a Superstar Nanny!
As a Classic Nanny, care and safety of the children is your primary responsibility. From safety to stimulation, manners to mud pies, you are responsible for it all! Your family is trusting you to be there for them and they are trusting that you are going to give your all during your working hours. Following are additional suggestions that will enable you to be a Superstar Nanny: Avoid last minute cancellations- The family is depending on you. If you cancel, the parents must cancel and rearrange their plans.
“Hands-On” Parenting
I love massages, I really do. Whether its an intense, hour-long rubdown, or just a simple neck-rub – its the therapeutic touch that eases tension and alleviates stress. So I was especially intrigued to speak with Ms. Jade Lee, who is not only a masseuse – but a practitioner of Infant Massage.
Can a Childcare Know-It-All Actually Know it All?
I am constantly meeting and interviewing Nannies. Its a favorite part of what I do, in no small measure because I too was a Nanny, for many years. So just the other day, Im interviewing a Nanny who, after ten years with her current family, is leaving. When I asked why, she replied, Well, the kids are older now, and theyre self-sufficient, which is nice. We discussed those ten years she spent …