Teaching Kids to Tell Time

How Nannies and Au Pairs Can Help Kids Learn to Tell Time There’s a time for everything. There’s a time to go to school, time to do homework, dinner time, bedtime, and the list goes on. If you want to keep kids on schedule, teach them how to keep time, show them how to read […]

Telly The Teaching Time Clock

Product Review Sunday for Nannies and Au Pairs Last night Americans turned their clocks back an hour to end Daylight Savings Time. Daylight Savings Time is to make better use of the daylight in the evenings. With the extra hour why not teach kids how to tell time with The Learning Journey Telly The Teaching […]

Saving the Daylight Why We Put the Clocks Forward

Weekly Trip to the Library Before going to bed tonight we turn our clocks back an hour. Saving the Daylight by David Prerau tells the remarkable story of daylight saving time (summer time) — the intriguing and entertaining tale of our attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. It chronicles how the revolutionary idea of putting […]

The Truth About Nannies

Nine Caregiver Myths Debunked By Candi Wingate of Nannies4Hire.com and Care4Hire.com If you just read the headlines in American pop culture, you could get the wrong idea about nannies. Books and movies like The Nanny Diaries, lawsuits between celebrity couples and their nannies, and affairs between nannies and husbands (or wives), are enough to make […]

Do You Have a Hard Time Getting Kids to Follow Directions?

How Nannies and Au Pairs Can Help Children Follow-Through This week Maria Lopez, a nanny and former second grade teacher, has agreed to answer questions nannies have about helping children do well in school. Reyna Horowitz, a nanny in New York asked Be the Best Nanny Newsletter what she can do to help her young […]

Helping Children Listen Better in School

How Nannies and Au Pairs Help Kids Thrive in School Be the Best Nanny Newsletter has received several questions from au pairs and nannies about helping their charges with homework and behavior issues at school. To help answer in-home child care provider questions, Maria Lopez, a former second grade teacher and nanny working in Miami, […]

Did You Remember to Vote Today?

It’s Election Day All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 37 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested in this election along with 38 state and territorial governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and numerous state and local races. If you forgot to wake up […]

November To-Do List

Something You Positively Must Do in November – BE POSITIVE! Adopt, accentuate, and exude a positive attitude. Being positive with yourself, the kids, and parents helps get positive results. Do not be a downer, a drama queen, or a complainer. It is so easy to fall into a rut when petty annoyances become out sized […]

The More Exposure the Better!

Safety Concerns Finding Nanny Jobs on Social Media Web Sites We have been discussing taking your nanny job search into the new technological age. We highly recommend using social networks to help with your job search. When looking for jobs the more exposure the better! If you have a MySpace page or use Facebook you […]

Making a Web Site for Your Nanny Resume

Marketing Yourself for a Great Nanny Job in a Tough EconomyWe have been discussing how to find a nanny job in a tough economy. Now that more nannies use nanny web sites to find nanny jobs than any other method it’s time for job seekers to use the Internet to market themselves. This week we […]